Tracking teens with suicidal ideations using AI

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Tanmay Bakshi, 14 years old self-programmer who recently partnered with IBM Watson, came up with the idea of combining deep learning technology with neural networks and using it to save lives. Specifically lives of those who are crying out for help. 

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Suicide and AI? Why he wanted to do make something like that? Simply because second cause of death among teenagers is suicide. These days, when all we see is perfect lives, perfect bodies, perfect relationships, suicide and mental health is a big problem for everyone, not only teenagers. But still, lets not forget about the fact that usually teenager will not be looking for a help of others.

That is why Tanmay wanted to help his peers and worked for over 3 years with his team to create an app that will track and analyse your browser history, social media accounts, exercise level, sleep, public interaction and look for changes in your lifestyle, trying to find patterns of abnormal behaviour. He used deep learning technology that allows computers to act in sort of natural way and artificial neural networks that is inspirited by our behaviour, not mimicking it. ANN in particular fits this job perfectly because it can detect patterns of irregular behaviour better then our own brain because of the ability mentioned earlier.

When the app caches the irregularity, it immediately warns parents. Then it helps you to find solutions such as online meditation or gives you advices about good clinic in your neighbourhood.

Even tho Tanmay has been working on this app for over 3 years, the app itself is not available yet and the data of its release has not been mentioned anywhere.

 

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2 thoughts on “Tracking teens with suicidal ideations using AI

  1. Willoński Artur says:

    Well it is a bit sad, what you wrote about our world. Luckily there are people like Tanmay who found another very interesting usage of AI. I think that’s just a beggining of new era where device based on AI is going to be a tool not only for detecting diseases but also for preventing them.

  2. Puhach Anhelina says:

    Just amazing! After all, who if not the child understands in child psychology? The very process of analyzing all the spheres of a teenager’s life, including the quality of their sleep, is very complicated as well as interesting! I would like the application to become available as soon as possible and start to sound the alarm, finally saving lives. AI never ceases to amaze me.

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