Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Machines can spot mental health issues—if you hand over your personal data

Stephen Downes

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I've been saying for some time that AI analysis of our online data (and especially the things we create and say) will replace tests and assignments as a means of assessing competence. This isn't exactly that, but it's following the same line of reasoning. For example, "People who are prone to hearing voices, it turns out, tend to talk about them." Also, "Low semantic density is a telltale sign that a patient might be at risk of psychosis." Now none of this is ready for deployment. And of course neural network based AI will provide much more fine-grained analysis (akin to a psychologist simply 'recognizing' that a person has an affliction). Still...

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