Help
iTherapy.com is a free service. We hope that you appreciate the fact that we provide someone to talk to and hope that you find it helpful. We do not offer a technical support hotline or e-mail support for this service. All help is either offered in this Frequently Asked Questions or can be answered by T.A.R.A. herself.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Is this a real person?
No. T.A.R.A. is an artificial intelligence chatbot that will reply to your questions, talk about the weather, offer you help. She is available day or night, continuously and will always be there for you but she is not a real person.
Who Created This?
iTherapy.com is a production of Isdera Corp., Online Privacy Specialists. Isdera Corp. sees a future where embarrassing events and actions are conducted in a private environment. No longer are we required to consult face-to-face with someone about personal problems and private issues. Technology will allow us to calmly conduct our business in private.
How Smart is the Artificial Intelligence?
T.A.R.A. gets smarter every single day. At the end of the day, she creates a list of questions that she doesn't think that she answered very well. Human programmers try to teach her correct responses. As of this writing it can handle approximately 4,000 different subjects and it knows 20,000 words.
T.A.R.A. cannot answer my question, what should I do?
The first step is to simplify the question. Changing an inquiry from "I am quite upset that my dog died while I was on vacation in the bahamas" to "My dog died" will help T.A.R.A. along. She will be happy to lend a sympathetic ear.
A second solution would be a web-search. If you would like to know a specific fact about a subject, T.A.R.A. is probably not your best resource. She is more like a friend that will share a conversation with you. If you ask her "how many apples are produced in the state of Washington each October?" She will probably respond with a guess like "More than 100". In some ways T.A.R.A. is very smart but she cannot compare with the entire knowledge base of the internet.
T.A.R.A. gave me some bad advice.
Unfortunately, this happens. We apologize that sometimes the answer that T.A.R.A. gives can be very wrong. Please tell her that you don't like her answer. She will usually learn to say the right thing within a few days.
How long can I talk to T.A.R.A?
You may talk with her as long as you want, as often as you want.
Who funds this venture?
Currently, iTherapy.com is supported through profits earned by ShopInPrivate.com.
Are you a real therapist?
T.A.R.A. is not a real therapist. It is just a conversational tool that is designed to offer a therapy-like experience anytime, anywhere. We hope that it will convince more people that therapy services can benefit them in their life. Our goal is to help more people find the mental help assistance they may need.