Researchers Can Predict Depression From Tweets

Researchers Can Predict Depression From Tweets

Does Twitter know you better than you know yourself? That’s the question a group of scientists asked while studying what people tweet to determine if they’re at risk for depression.

Time spoke with Eric Horvitz, co-director of Microsoft Research Redmond, who believes that artificial intelligence might one day be sophisticated enough to scan your tweets for signs that you’re depressed.

Horvitz and his team have created a model that scans Twitter and predicts depression among users with 70 percent accuracy.

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