Artificial Intelligence for Ethology: Neural Networks in the Prediction of Human Behavior

Can we reliably predict human behavior using Artificial Intelligence? Can traditional methods of Ethology, such as an ethogramm, be implted to achieve this goal ? This is the aim of this study which used observational data collected from ambulatory addictology patients of a district general hospital, using traditional methodological tools of Ethology (ethograms). Observed versus predicted data after adequate training of an appropriately built neural network correlated strongly (Pearson two tailed) and did not differ significantly (t-test). We conclude that Neural Networks may, under defined methodological circumstances, reliably predict human behavior.