Artificial intelligence is becoming a dull buzzword nowadays just
like iot,5G etc.This technology has provided the world with new
eyes that bring about innovative solutions to tackle the real
world problems.AI is ubiquitous and if its not somewhere until
now,then it's about to be.Whether or not we come to understand
"intelligence",the most challenging part, lying in our hands ,is
about bringing together humans and computers to enhance
human lives.
Depression...Can you define it?What does it mean to be
depressed?
Dark thoughts and self loathing can briefly define depression.
There are more many millions of people in the world living with
the pain of depression-trapped heavily in that knotty
world.Clinically speaking,its a debilitating illness.Depressed
people are trapped in the infinite darkness of their soul and they
find it onerous to escape from.
Even we have friends and colleagues suffering from
depression.Indeed ,actual depression is not the state of
sadness in one.'Sadness' is just the state of being
depressed.And yeah!Both are different.Think if we have a family
member with depression,will we find it easy talking to them?
Wouldn't we all be uncomfortable?There maybe someone
though.Enouncing the reality,we guys would go uneasy ,if we
are to undergo a situation where our friend says he/she is
depressed.We would be lost into the dense forests of
confusions,thinking of the do's and don'ts while dealing with
them.And this is the reason why most folks don't talk to
depressed people unless they pretend to be happy,mimicking a
cheerful vibe in them. So,these people often think of putting an
end to their lives,and bid goodbye commiting suicides.
Talking the statistics,close to 800,000 people are
attempting suicides every year, out of which 17.4% are due to
depression.Have we ever thought why this happened?Its
because,we proved ourselves incapable of helping
them.Yeah!we are like the time bombs that may blast any
second,our mood-keeps swinging.
Here we can make best use of artificial intelligence. Artificial
intelligence now,have grown to a level where they make use of
instagram comments and tweets into visualizing and analysing
if a person is depressed or not.And now twitters are turned into
advanced scrapping tools,that allow one to scrape into the
user's followers,following,Tweets and more.
Deep learning and artificial neural networks are exhibiting their
roles in node classifications in the area of social networks used
for labelling up the characteristics based on dependencies and
available information.So,artificial intelligence can do much more
,than just detecting the level of depression.AI can be enabled to
bring about a drift in the mood of the depressed people by its
reasoning and self learning skills resembling human brain.We
now live in an era were people trust robots and machines much
more than the homo sapiens themselves.
We seldom think about building a bridge with the depros, in
making or establishing a stronger connection with them,but we
do have a lot of questions and concerns.We feel afraid talking
to them because we fear if we would become resposible for
their well-being if something happens.This is where we can
introduce the concept of clever bots-the artificially intelligent
chat bots that can be automatically notified about the person's
depression levels, so that it can immediately connect with
them.The brains of the clever bot system should be made
capable of making decisions as to which are do's and don'ts
about them, and learn from this previous experience to never
redo an undo.Because for the depressed,there is diversity in
nature and behaviour which is person dependent.
The chatbots must be so trained that the could even run
sentimental algorithms so that no attempts at conversations
would be awkward.As words are something to be cautiously
expressed and focused on,artificial intelligence can outweigh
humans as they are compiled and run to function effectively.AI
can become that woo-woo person who is capable of connecting
with the depressed.And we are the kings,because no artificial
intelligent system program themselves on their own.
If we are afraid of depression being contagious and
pervasive,oh-la-la! machine has no such worries.Artificial
intelligence can be designed to function with depressed people
proving that they are not flawless and defective.Indeed,life is
not a bed of roses.Everything requires time to learn and
function properly.So,I whole-heartedly hope that a day would
come where the depressed one's can prove their worth,a day
where machine can inspire and instill hope in them.Let our
nation flourish with its emanating minds.Then,that day we can
put an end to the off putting monologue-"get over it!", that the
depros dislike,because then,they will be already gotten over
with it.