Cynthia Fu
Appearances
Radiolab
How to Cure What Ails You
I'm Cynthia Fu. I'm a psychiatrist at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London.
Radiolab
How to Cure What Ails You
That's right. And what the person in the machine was supposed to do is... To look at these faces and decide whether it was a man or a woman's face.
Radiolab
How to Cure What Ails You
Because while they were doing that... While they're making this decision, the emotion of the face is being processed automatically.
Radiolab
How to Cure What Ails You
And the machine... It's like tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. And there were hundreds of pictures.
Radiolab
How to Cure What Ails You
It's called machine learning. She told the program, this is a pattern of brain activity in depressed people. This is a pattern of brain activity in healthy people.
Radiolab
How to Cure What Ails You
More than 85% of the time, 86% of the time, the algorithm correctly diagnosed whether that person was depressed or healthy.