A group of researchers from India's Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology has developed a special artificial intelligence that can detect a person's health condition based on speech sounds.
If you're planning to take sick leave and your company has the same AI tool as this, you may want to think twice before you fake your absence.
AI Can Tell If You're Sick or Not Over the Phone
With AI advancement, scientists have learned to improve the capability of simple artificial intelligence.
Before, AI technology was only about altering the voices that humans could make. Now, it came to the point that this innovation can detect if a person is sick based on the sound of their voice.
According to a report by Global News, a team of scientists from India discovered a unique way to assess the patient's health condition via non-invasive techniques.
AI technology is created to identify if a person has an underlying illness over the phone. With COVID-19 virus variants still on the rise, diagnosing an ailment is pretty unsafe because viruses can spread quickly.
The invention might be helpful for people who want to avoid this kind of contact to reduce possible chances of acquiring contagious diseases.
How Researchers Came Up With the Experiment
The clinical trial for the study involves 630 German people. One hundred eleven of them had a cold at that time.
Pankaj Warule, the research's primary author, spearheaded the analysis of various patterns from the participants. The study found that the vocal patterns of people could be upset if a person has a cold.
It's no wonder that if you suffer from a cold, you experience a runny nose and itchy throat that turns out to be inflamed. With these symptoms, the researchers concluded that the vocal rhythms have something to do with a person's health condition regarding their voice's frequency and amplitude.
The team instructed the participants to recite "The North Wind and the Sun," a famous fable by Aesop. During the experiment, the people were also told to count from one to 40.
As of writing, the researchers are still adding new factors that could affect the study. Although the research is early, it already showed how promising AI technology is when identifying a person's health condition.
The study entitled "Sinusoidal model-based diagnosis of the common cold from the speech signal" can be accessed on Science Direct's website.
Can AI Detect Sarcasm?
If an AI can detect Parkinson's disease, there's also an artificial intelligence that can tell if a social media post is sarcastic, per Unite.ai.
In December 2022, the University of Central Florida researchers developed an AI tool that excels in detecting sarcasm on social media sites.
It's hard to teach a machine with patterns of sarcasm, but with continuous testing of data sets, the researchers improved its accuracy and reliability.
