A Schizophrenic Computer

We know what schizophrenia looks like in "living" organisms but now we know what it looks like in a computer. Researches at University of Texas at Austin have now created a schizophrenic computer that can process both emotions and semantics. This "computer" built on a language parser called DISCERN can hear a story and retell it in its own words, while hearing the story it picks up the negative and positive aspects of the story and when retelling the story insert certain words with different connotations to retell the story with feeling mimicking a human being. Also when being fed a story in third person the DISCERN program was able to tell it in first person, of course, changing the story by adding delusions, mixing up characters in the story and adopting wild autobiographies. This technology takes new insight into mental disorders and can also be taken as a portal to different clinical trials. This is why I was so interested in this article. If we can program a computer to act like a mental disorder that still has not been 100% "figured out" by professionals we have hope to do this with so many different mental disorders. Why is this so fascinating? Because we can try clinical studies to unravel the disorder more and more coming up with new ways to treat disorders of the brain.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/diagnostics/researchers-create-a-schizophrenic-computer