We all know the potential impact that Artificial Intelligence can have on our future. Companies are starting to turn towards A.I to solve just about any problem that you can think of. Problems that will no longer require human necessity to solve. The power of A.I is crazy and should be respected. Companies are looking into software that help you change your thoughts for the better and analyze a voice for signs of depression. I want to specifically look into how A.I is effecting the area of Mental Health and how companies are using A.I to make there lives easier.
Looking into the field of Mental Health, everybody has mental health and we all need to look after it every day. Artificial Intelligence can step into play to make up for the lack of clinicians. It is described as a way of task-shifting, or simply moving some of the burden of work from the humans to Artificial Intelligent apps that never goes to sleep, and won’t charge you with a bill either. There is an app called TalkSpace, although it connects people with real human therapists, not a chatbot. Patients communicate with professionals via long text messages, audio notes, video messages, or live video conversations. Plus, TalkSpace uses the platform's own de-identified, aggregated data to give the therapists recommendations they can choose to accept or ignore, like suggesting that they send a recorded video message at a certain time, according to Neil Leibowitz, the company’s chief medical officer.
Other research at MIT has a similar focus. Tuka Al Hanai, a doctoral candidate in the computer science and electrical engineering department, focuses on using A.I to detect problems like depression by analyzing audio files, or text, from a person’s voice.
A.I is growing and becoming more powerful day by day. As the next generation, I believe we should all take a look into this and make ourselves aware of Artificial Intelligence and where our world is headed.
https://www.popsci.com/artificial-intelligence-mental-health#page-3
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