{"id":12518,"date":"2014-11-06T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T17:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12518"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:11:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:11:37","slug":"big-brother-is-feeling-you-the-global-impact-of-ai-driven-mental-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/big-brother-is-feeling-you-the-global-impact-of-ai-driven-mental-health-care","title":{"rendered":"Big Brother Is Feeling You: The Global Impact Of AI-Driven Mental Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: <a title=\"Posts by Steven Kotler\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/skotler\/\" rel=\"author\">Steven Kotler<\/a> \u2014 Singularity Hub<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79736\" src=\"\" alt=\"happiness ai\" width=\"580\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Big Brother is feeling you\u2014literally.<\/p>\n<p>A few months back, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/stevenkotler\/2014\/07\/20\/the-uncanniest-valley-what-happens-when-robots-know-us-better-than-we-know-ourselves\/\">wrote about Ellie,<\/a> the world\u2019s first AI-psychologist. Developed by DARPA and researchers at USC\u2019s Institute for Creative Technologies, Ellie is a diagnostic tool capable of reading 60 non-verbal cues a second\u2014everything from eye-gaze to face tilt to voice tone\u2014in the hopes of identifying the early warning signs of depressions and (part of the long term goal) stemming the rising tide of soldier suicide.<\/p>\n<p>And early reports indicate that Ellie is both good at her job and that soldiers like talking to an AI-psychologist more than they like talking to a human psychologist (AI\u2019s don\u2019t judge).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/09\/22\/big-brother-is-feeling-you-the-global-impact-of-ai-driven-mental-health-care\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: Steven Kotler \u2014 Singularity Hub Big Brother is feeling you\u2014literally. A few months back, I wrote about Ellie, the world\u2019s first AI-psychologist. Developed by DARPA and researchers at USC\u2019s Institute for Creative Technologies, Ellie is a diagnostic tool capable of reading 60 non-verbal cues a second\u2014everything from eye-gaze to face tilt to voice [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46787,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12518\/revisions\/46787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}