Using AI to Understand Autism

Guest: Maithilee Kunda, PhD, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Deputy Director, Vanderbilt Center for Autism and Innovation, Vanderbilt University The scientist Temple Grandin has explained that some people with autism, including herself, think in a series of pictures, like a video stream or an old-school slide projector. They don’t think in words. Her work inspired computer scientist Maithilee Kunda to try to design tests that more accurately capture that kind of intelligence, and then to help those people who have it find jobs.