The University of California San Diego School of Medicine study used AI to analyse the words, phrases, and silence in interviews with older adults, who spoke about feelings of loneliness.

If you’ve read the very excellent Technical Revolutions and Financial Capital, you know that new technologies spawn over-investment, and that over-investment leads to a lot of losers, but it lays the groundwork for the golden age of the technology to actually arrive. There is a lull between these time periods, and that is where we are with AI at the moment.