Can This AI-Powered Baby Translator Help Diagnose Autism?
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When Ariana Anderson had her first child, she was as clueless as any new parent about how to interpret her infant’s cries. Every wail, every sob sounded an urgent alarm to her postpartum brain. But by the time Anderson’s third kid came along, the UCLA computational neuropsychologist realized she had become fluent in baby. Her ear had learned which sounds meant “feed me!†which ones were “change me!†and which ones signaled something more serious: pain. Anderson wondered if she could train an algorithm to do the same thing.
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