Article Excerpt: Computer language models, which analyze what children say during stressful events, are better at predicting their future mental health than a panel of experts in the field. That’s the finding from a new study published in Nature Mental Health.
Researchers ran recorded audio interviews of more than 200 children—ages 9 to 13 (on average 11 years old)—through four natural language processing models, asking the kids to speak about stressful events in their personal lives.
The result: Those models were “very accurate” at predicting whether these same children developed mental health conditions six years later in adolescence, according to the study.
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