Posted on 04/23/2019 5:53:48 PM PDT by BenLurkin
In the current study, the research team used a statistical/machine learning technique, called random forests, that has the ability to "learn" how to classify individuals based on examples. Such AI programs build "decision" rules and mathematical models that enable decision-making with increasing accuracy as the amount of training data grows.
The researchers first recorded standard, hours-long diagnostic interviews, called Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale, or CAPS, of 53 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with military-service-related PTSD, as well as those of 78 veterans without the disease. The recordings were then fed into voice software from SRI International—the institute that also invented Siri—to yield a total of 40,526 speech-based features captured in short spurts of talk, which the team's AI program sifted through for patterns.
The random forest program linked patterns of specific voice features with PTSD, including less clear speech and a lifeless, metallic tone, both of which had long been reported anecdotally as helpful in diagnosis. While the current study did not explore the disease mechanisms behind PTSD, the theory is that traumatic events change brain circuits that process emotion and muscle tone, which affects a person's voice.
Moving forward, the research team plans to train the AI voice tool with more data, further validate it on an independent sample, and apply for government approval to use the tool clinically.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
Yeah sure, I believe this. Especially when Google or Apple speech to text is so perfect and accurate.
Yeah sure, I believe this especially when Google or Apple speech-to-text is so perfect and Acura
“What could possibly go wrong? “
Yes, the prospect of this is terrifying given the state of politics today!
My wife had a visit with a potential new Neurosurgeon for her back yesterday at a well-known Medical Care System here in the SF Bay Area. After filling out the obligatory paperwork (which is mostly bull$hit, but routine), and after seeing the nurse, she was left in the exam room with a computer screen and told to answer the questions it posed. After seeing the first couple ( which dealt with “issues like do you ever consider suicide?” I told her to stop and answer nothing else. This kind of $hit is the “camel’s nose under your privacy tent,” what with today’s medical record keeping and never knowing if your identity is decoupled from the questions. This stuff can come back and bite you, particularly when you are on Medicare. In these respects, medicine is a disgrace today. You are treated as a statistic and rated on what your continued existence costs society.
2018 in Review: 10 AI Failures
IBM Watson comes up short in healthcare
“This product is a piece of shit” wrote a doctor at Florida’s Jupiter Hospital regarding IBM’s flagship AI program Watson, according to internal documents obtained by Stat. Originally a question-answering machine, IBM has been exploring Watson’s AI capabilities across a broad range of applications and processes, including healthcare. In 2013 IBM developed Watson’s first commercial application for cancer treatment recommendation, and the company has secured a number of key partnerships with hospitals and research centers over the past five years. But Watson AI Health has not impressed doctors. Some complained it gave wrong recommendations on cancer treatments that could cause severe and even fatal consequences.
After spending years on the project without significant advancements, IBM is reportedly downsizing Watson Health and laying off more than half the division’s staff.
They have been asking those kinds of questions in NJ primary care doctors offices ever since the Bush administration.
Oh, here we go. Neither Orwell nor Huxley were able to imagine a small fraction of the tyranny that awaits.
Sounds very THX-1138.
What you say?
You have no chance to survive make your time.
As Churchill predicted:
“[T]he whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”
AI will go Bye-BY.
It is a rare man that can rise above the clutter of his time and take a broader view.
Churchill may not have predicted computers, but he saw the broad outline of what was to come.
Oh BS.
Baloney mumbo jumbo is what that is.
That is some scary crap right there. It’s bad enough that healthcare has been taken over by ruthless bureaucrats. Now let’s give them AI-based programs to decide your fate. Thanks, Obama, you flaming demoniac.
You have PTSD and a lot of other mental problems, Dave - all your rights have been suspended...have been suspended...have been sus....pen........ded.......
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