AI knows your blood type

A Pilot Study Using AI for Psychology: ABO Blood Type and Personality Traits

Here is the conclusion of the study:

AI predicted the blood type of participants more accurately than chance. We found a clear relationship between blood type and the self-reported personality of many question items, which matches traits previously stated. The same traits were observed in the no-knowledge groups, though the difference was smaller. Our findings provide a new, if hypothetical, framework of how genes affect human personality.

But that’s not all.

Eye Movements During Everyday Behavior Predict Personality Traits

Computers are gradually learning to interpret human behavior – and can now also do so by analyzing the way people use their eyes. A team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics has developed a software system that can draw conclusions about a person’s personality traits by using artificial intelligence to evaluate their eye movements. People also tend to make subconscious assessments of character on the basis of visual behavior. In order to make human-computer collaboration more social, efficient, and flexible, the new software system is now able to process a person’s eye movements to calculate for example how neurotic, extrovert and curious they are.

“Besides allowing us to perceive our surroundings, eye movements are also a window into our mind. They reveal who we are, how we feel, and what we do,” explains Andreas Bulling, who leads the perceptual User Interfaces research group at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and the Cluster of Excellence at Saarland University in Saarbrücken. Humans can read the social signals sent by the eyes as a matter of course and without being aware of doing so. Andreas Bulling is now working with scientists in Stuttgart and Australia to teach this skill to computers. This means for example that robots will eventually be able to use and understand the nonverbal communication channels used by humans. The team has developed a machine learning based software system for this purpose. The software evaluates eye movements recorded by an eye tracker to predict the subject’s personality traits.