[HN Gopher] Personality trait recognition using ECG spectrograms...
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       Personality trait recognition using ECG spectrograms and deep
       learning
        
       Author : PaulHoule
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2024-02-15 17:49 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
        
       | carbocation wrote:
       | Very nice. Now let's see the external validation.
        
         | PaulHoule wrote:
         | Would be nice to see. Doesn't look like a hard experiment. Even
         | a 12-lead ECG is pretty easy to set up compared to an EEG, PET
         | scanner, or something like that. There's a very direct line
         | from the heart to the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous
         | systems so it's quite believable that at least some of the "Big
         | 5" should manifest in HRV. The reliability of their test
         | doesn't seem far off from conventional personality tests
         | 
         | https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/people-unexplained/2...
        
       | equanimitivity wrote:
       | >The ASCERTAIN dataset comprises a diverse range of physiological
       | signals, including ECG recordings, collected from 58 participants
       | exposed to video stimuli (36 videos) categorized in different
       | categories based on valence and arousal levels. In particular,
       | there are four subcategories of these 36 video clips. Clip 1 to 9
       | is categorized into High Arousal and High Valance (HAHV), Clip 10
       | to 18 Low Arousal and High Valance (LAHV), Clips 19 to 27 Low
       | Arousal and Low Valance (LALV), and 28 to 36 High Arousal and Low
       | Valance (HALV) clips [10]. ECG signals from the right and left
       | arm were recorded at a sampling rate of 256Hz... our model
       | outperformed the closest rival by a wide margin (0.56), achieving
       | an accuracy of 0.94 for the extraversion trait. Similar trends
       | are seen for agreeableness (0.92 versus 0.55), conscientiousness
       | (0.92 versus 0.60), emotional stability (0.93 versus 0.53), and
       | openness (0.93 versus 0.48).
       | 
       | Predicts Big 5 based on heart beat response to various stimuli. I
       | wonder if EKG's really contain more information beyond heart rate
       | as the conduction within the heart is pretty consistent normally,
       | regardless of rate. Neural nets seem to work great at finding any
       | signal- too bad it isn't so clear what those signals are.
        
         | PaulHoule wrote:
         | I can't tell if they are using a 2-lead or 3-lead ECG.
         | Personally I think it's pretty cool that a 12-lead EKG can see
         | the electric field generated by your heart as a vector
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocardiography
         | 
         | I've had health care professionals wire me up for a 12-lead ECG
         | (always normal so far) in less than a minute too.
        
       | FrustratedMonky wrote:
       | Know it's a loose analogy.
       | 
       | But we really don't know how AI works, really, when we peer into
       | the memory.
       | 
       | And earlier today someone posted how to Visualize internals of
       | Mistral 7B.
       | 
       | And we don't really know how brain neural net works.
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       | And here is a study peering into it.
       | 
       | And in both posts, the visual output is very similar.
       | 
       | They are both neural nets really.
       | 
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39378773
       | https://github.com/valine/NeuralFlow
        
       | livinginfear wrote:
       | Can anyone predict a potential benefit to society that might come
       | from this research? I can only think of bad things coming from
       | this. It's like a major step down the staircase towards dystopia.
       | 
       | Everyone was up in arms the other day about a developer who had
       | to take a personality test for a job at FedEx. Imagine what
       | _this_ leads to.
        
       | boredemployee wrote:
       | I can't wait for this technology to be used by HR. /s
        
       | andy99 wrote:
       | Phrenology with a few modern buzzwords thrown in.
        
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