Researchers at the University of California San Diego have devised an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to predict the level of loneliness in adults, with 94% accuracy. The tool used Natural Language Processing (NLP) developed by IBM to process large amounts of unstructured natural speech and text data. It analysed factors like cognition, mobility, sleep and physical activity to understand the process of aging. This tool is an example of how AI can be used in devices to detect mental health conditions. Market research firm Gartner predicts, by 2022, your personal device will know more about your emotional state than your own family members.

Since machines are good at analysing large amounts of data, they can listen to voice inflections and recognise when those inflections correlate with …

AUT's Artificial Intelligence knows your choices before you do Picture standing in your local dairy, indecisively scanning the drinks fridge to choose which can you're going to buy. If you were hooked up to NeuCube, it would be able to predict which one you'd reach for – before you'd opened the fridge, and even before the thought was fully formed. Using artificial intelligence to predict a person's choices before they have even made up their mind is a world first - and it was developed at Auckland University of Technology (AUT). Professor Nikola Kasabov, who worked on the project, said they wanted to find out if there was brain activity before the conscious perception of an object. READ MORE: * Artificial intelligence presents us with an opportunity, and a challenge * Don't fear the new AI revolution * How computers'see' faces and other objects * How science may just end up killing crime There is, it turns out.