Harvard Predicts Happiness

 How specific or Even Specifically Useful?

Harvard Developed AI Identifies the Shortest Path to Human Happiness

TOPICS:Artificial IntelligenceHarvard Medical SchoolMachine LearningMental HealthPsychological ModelPsychology

The authors created two digital models of human psychology based on data from the Midlife in the United States study.

The first model is an ensemble of deep neural networks that predicts respondents’ chronological age and psychological well-being in 10 years using information from a psychological survey. This model depicts the trajectories of the human mind as it ages. It also demonstrates that the capacity to form meaningful connections, as well as mental autonomy and environmental mastery, develops with age. It also suggests that the emphasis on personal progress is constantly declining, but the sense of having a purpose in life only fades after 40-50 years. These results add to the growing body of knowledge on socioemotional selectivity and hedonic adaptation in the context of adult personality development  .... '