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Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now

100 points · 116 comments · AndrewDucker

  1. la6479 · · focus · HN ↗
    THis is where rubber meets the road. Show me how AI can make life easier for autistic people and their caregivers , mentally challenged people and their caregiver and I will believe in the promise of AI.
    1. contingencies · · focus · HN ↗
      It has infinite patience as a teacher in an infinitesimal number of detail oriented specific areas where others would fail. It can maintain perspective on longer term goals and repetition and such through proven autism treatment pathways like CBT/speech therapies where humans be prohibitively expensive or would tire. That's surely something? It can reinforce bringing detail out to generalities. That helps for some. I'd say pedagogy and communications therapy are therefore both clear areas of promise.

      These are viable for the population as a whole, not just people with autism or identified learning difficulties.

      1. [deleted] · · focus · HN ↗

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