Eliza, a theatrical thriller about the first chatbot, feels emotionally distant. That’s the point

By Kat Henry, Lecturer and Researcher, Theatre Department, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne

During talk therapy one day, my psychologist said to me, “Look, the human mind is a mystery. We may never fully work things out.” For me, it was at once shocking that a psychologist was so candid about the limitations of their profession, and liberating. It allowed me to relax into the enigma of being human – the endless contradictions, complexities and obscured insights within us all.

I began to see talk therapy as an ongoing curiosity about our interiors, rather than heading toward a fixed endpoint.

That psychologist was a real human, but talk therapy from artificial…

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