About T.A.R.A. the iTherapy Chatbot

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, and offer you help. She is available day or night, continuously. She 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.

How was T.A.R.A. Programmed?

Tara was written in a language called AIML (artificial intelligence markup language). AIML is a PERL based application. The basic code for T.A.R.A. came from A.L.I.C.E. the world's greatest artificial intelligence chatbot and multi-time winner of the Loebner prize for AI's.

Is T.A.R.A. 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.