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Artificial Intelligence Can Now Predict Suicide With Remarkable Accuracy (qz.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Colin Walsh, data scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and his colleagues have created machine-learning algorithms that predict, with unnerving accuracy, the likelihood that a patient will attempt suicide. In trials, results have been 80-90% accurate when predicting whether someone will attempt suicide within the next two years, and 92% accurate in predicting whether someone will attempt suicide within the next week. The prediction is based on data that's widely available from all hospital admissions, including age, gender, zip codes, medications, and prior diagnoses. Walsh and his team gathered data on 5,167 patients from Vanderbilt University Medical Center that had been admitted with signs of self-harm or suicidal ideation. They read each of these cases to identify the 3,250 instances of suicide attempts. This set of more than 5,000 cases was used to train the machine to identify those at risk of attempted suicide compared to those who committed self-harm but showed no evidence of suicidal intent.
Why is it you say you don't find ELIZA to be that effective as a program?
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When the algorithm discovers it can improve accuracy by driving people to suicide by being linked to robocalling systems
Nullius in verba
You have been deemed to be suicidal. Please check into your nearest healthcare location. Refusal to do so will result in you being placed imminently into level two treatment. Which may result in loss of job, loss of family, and the loss of your pet named spot.
Why is it you say you don't find ELIZA to be that effective as a program?
All those questions are enough to drive someone to commit suicide. Wait a minute...
I have made an algorithm that says that of those who never had previously tried suicide and then did it successfully, 97% did it for the first time. (+-3% accuracy on the calculation)
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Drugs. Lots of drugs.
It may not be the "Eureka" moment you are expecting but from my perspective I discovered the meaning of existence.