Fine-tuning LLM for designing a chatbot for mental health counselling

Course Q&A Generative AI with Large Language Models
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In lab 2, the dataset for fine tuning, has been prepared with respect to summarization task but if I want to fine tune the same model in order to make a chatbot specifically for mental health counselling use case, then how should I prepare my dataset? Will the pairs of questions-answers work?

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Hi, yes, pairs of questions and answers will work. However, for a mental health counseling chatbot, you need a quality dataset that should include conversational exchanges that mimic real counseling scenarios. You can search for them on platforms like HuggingFace, Kaggle, and so on. Please let me know If you need any more assistance!

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is q&a chatbot model enough for mental health counseling?

I am sorry I don’t think it’s enough, reason mental health is not easy disorder to be handled just by chatbot.

Even psychiatrist counselor fails sometimes when it comes to addressing someone with mental health issue.

So what kind of approach would be more helpful if your aim is to address mental health issue.

I would say create a channel for people who are still hesitant to talk about it openly, be it trauma, abuse, suicide or depression, people don’t talk about this openly or don’t even think about going to a psychiatrist or probably some cannot afford!!!

A key point to make a project chatbot relative to your issue should be ablility to understand

  1. The target population, their reasoning to avoid treatment where privacy is the main concern as it has its own consequences.
  2. Addressing a general population overall not just focusing on Richie Rich.
  3. Creating a channel between counselors and mental health seeks anonymously were even payments can be handled anonymously, remember some mental health seekers don’t want to be tracked down but only address their issue.
  4. Key features to your app like a positive story motivators, quotes, ads, offers like suicide prevention, converting mental health seekers to counselors by sharing their journey.
  5. Sharing library of book of self help, stories, movies, webseries, documentaries.
  6. You can have more and more points to add if one keeps thinking in right direction with the right team.

Regards
DP

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I agree to these considerations to be kept in mind. However, for now I want to confirm specifically the structure of the training data for this purpose.