Deploying Artificial Intelligence Technology To Improve Mental Health

Caption: Machine learning is an artificial intelligence technology that becomes proficient at autonomously performing a task, when given data and examples of desired behavior. It can identify meaningful patterns that humans may not have been able to detect as quickly without the machine's help. MIT scientist Rosalind Picard collaborates with clinicians to develop tools for mental health care delivery. A machine-learning expert and a psychology researcher/clinician may seem an unlikely duo. But MIT's Rosalind Picard and Massachusetts General Hospital's Paola Pedrelli are united by the belief that artificial intelligence may be able to help make mental health care more accessible to patients.