Artificial intelligence (AI) can detect loneliness with 94 per cent accuracy from a person’s speech, a new scientific paper reports. Researchers in the US used several AI tools, including IBM Watson, to analyse transcripts of older adults interviewed about feelings of loneliness. By analysing words, phrases, and gaps of silence during the interviews, the AI … Read more
Career-focused people who prioritise making money are more likely to be lonely because they sacrifice time with their loved ones in order to work, study finds By Ian Randall For Mailonline Published: 12:25 BST, 24 September 2020 | Updated: 12:40 BST, 24 September 2020 Those who focus their lives on accumulating wealth are more likely … Read more
A lonely pensioner who put up a poster in his window asking for friends after his beloved wife died has been inundated with thousands of emails and hundreds of phone calls from wellwishers all over the world. MailOnline told yesterday how Tony Williams felt isolated with no close family or friends after his wife Jo, … Read more
My 89-year-old father went way over his monthly call limit during lockdown and, over three months, Vodafone has taken more than £1,000. The company called him from an overseas call centre and he did not really understand what the person was saying. He was advised to go to Vodafone’s store or website, but the store … Read more
Zoos across the world say their animals are becoming ‘lonely’ without visitors as a result of the coronavirus lockdown. Zoo keepers have shared their wide-ranging methods to keep animals active and engaged as even those that have since reopened struggle to pull in the usual number of visitors to their sites. Since the coronavirus pandemic … Read more
Zoos across the world say their animals are becoming ‘lonely’ without visitors as a result of the coronavirus lockdown. Zoo keepers have shared their wide-ranging methods to keep animals active and engaged as even those that have since reopened struggle to pull in the usual number of visitors to their sites. Since the coronavirus pandemic … Read more
Chris Lilley has gone from one of Australia’s top comedians to down and out in Bondi, after Netflix removed four of his shows last month in response to the Black Lives Matter movement. The 45-year-old is keeping a low profile in Sydney’s eastern suburbs and has steadfastly refused to address the controversy surrounding his work. … Read more
Multi-millionaire film-maker Steve Bing had to take a DNA test before he would admit he had fathered a child with Liz Hurley, and he spent a lifetime keeping the many women in his life at arm’s length. Tragically, it appears to have been his loneliness in lockdown that proved too much for him, leading him … Read more
SOCIETY A HISTORY OF SOLITUDE by David Vincent (Polity £25, 304pp) The past three months have put the fickle relationship between solitude and loneliness under the spotlight like never before. As lockdown starts to lift, many of us, long cooped up alone, are gratefully seizing the chance to reunite with loved ones in ‘support bubbles’. … Read more
I touch down in Bhutan, the remote country Lonely Planet says is the best place to visit in 2020 and which touts on being the ‘happiest place on earth’, and I admit I’m feeling rather jolly. At this point, it’s solely for the reason that I’ve survived landing at the country’s international airport, which is … Read more