Tag: artificial intelligence
New Algorithms Fail to Predict Antidepressant Treatment Outcomes
Researchers suggest that because most antidepressant āsuccessā is due to the placebo effect, they may never find a way to predict outcomes.
Mental Health Apps: AI Surveillance Enters Our World
While the developers are promoting the apps as a public health initiative, they are effectively an AI that would be snooping on you at all timesāostensibly coming to know you better than you know yourself. And ultimately doing so for commercial purposes that will expand the psychiatric enterprise.
Experts Raise Ethical Concerns About Machine Learning in Medicine
The use of machine learning algorithms (known as artificial intelligence) in the medical field raises a slew of ethical concerns.
Is Artificial Intelligence Too Dehumanizing to Succeed?
FromĀ AlterNet: "Giving corporations powerful and manipulative technology tools to intrude even more deeply into the personal lives of consumers and employees and then analyze...
The Quantified Heart: The Cultural Impact of Artificial Intelligence
FromĀ Aeon: "Murmuring in their soft voices, Siri, Alexa and various mindfulness apps signal their readiness to cater to us in an almost slave-like fashion....
Sleepwalking Towards Artificial Intimacy: How Psychotherapy Is Failing The Future
From Forbes:Ā Artificial intimacy has long been a science fiction fantasy and now programs appear that say they deliver it in bits and pieces: a...
Does My Algorithm Have a Mental Health Problem?
FromĀ Big Think: As our algorithms are increasingly being made in our own image, they are at heightened risk of experiencing "mental health problems."
"Take the...
Remembering Marvin Minsky and Artificial Intelligence
Radio Boston remembers Marvin Minsky, MIT professor and founder of the artificial intelligence field. āMost importantly, Marvin Minsky changed the way think about the...