AI language models could help diagnose schizophrenia: Study

Artificial intelligence language models could help in diagnosing schizophrenia, according to the findings of a new research. AI solutions Researchers at University College London in the UK developed new tools, based on AI language models, that can characterise subtle signatures in the speech of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, which is characterised by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language. "This work shows the potential of applying AI language models to psychiatry - a medical field intimately related to language and meaning," said lead author Matthew Nour, a psychiatrist and a neuroscientist. However, by combining AI language models and brain scanning technology, how the brain constructs meaning is being uncovered and how this meaning construction goes awry in psychiatric disorders, the researchers said.