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Wednesday, September 5, 2018

MIT’s depression-detecting AI might be its scariest creation yet


Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently developed a neural network that predicts, with a relatively high level of accuracy, the likelihood a person has a cognitive impairment. If you don’t mind speaking loosely, you could call it a depression detector. It’s not, but we’ll get into that later. The team, consisting of MIT researchers Tuka Alhanai, Mohammad Ghassemi, and James Glass are presenting their work this week at the Interspeech 2018 conference in India. According to their paper, they’ve developed a context-free method by which a machine can break down text or audio from a human and assign a…

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