Body: <p>Do you think it would be possible to train an AI in such a way as to mimic/simulate someone that is diagnosed as "Special Needs"? </p>
  
  <p>Why? Most diagnosis and treatments for people today are subjective, sure it's what a group of like-minded professionals has agreed upon as a valid hypothesis, but, at the same time, there is an absence of the absolute. Could we train an AI to become a "special needs" be a starting point in helping find better ways to unlock the potential and understanding of these differences?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Creating an AI to accurately simulate any human behaviour to the level at which we could learn from the AI would, currently, be a huge leap beyond our current capabilities.
Comments.UserDisplayName: Lio Elbammalf
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Comments.Text: To back up Lio's point, training an AI to behave like any kind of life form in order to simulate even a subset of interactions with it, is currently a tall order. You can forget any mammals for a few years yet, let alone humans.
Comments.UserDisplayName: Neil Slater
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Comments.Text: This leads to another question: Why train an AI to be "special needs"? Now you have a "special needs" robot, and you're back where you started: How do you decipher what differentiates them?
Comments.UserDisplayName: FreezePhoenix
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Comments.CreationDate: 2019-07-12T15:27:41.413Z
Comments.Text: I don't think this is a good question for this site. It could be a good starter question for a PhD, but I wouldn't expect the question itself to be answered in the eventual thesis.
Comments.UserDisplayName: MSalters
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Title: Can an AI simulate someone that is diagnosed as "Special Needs"?
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ThreadText: # Can an AI simulate someone that is diagnosed as "Special Needs"?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-07-09)
  
  Do you think it would be possible to train an AI in such a way as to mimic/simulate someone that is diagnosed as "Special Needs"?
  
  Why? Most diagnosis and treatments for people today are subjective, sure it's what a group of like-minded professionals has agreed upon as a valid hypothesis, but, at the same time, there is an absence of the absolute. Could we train an AI to become a "special needs" be a starting point in helping find better ways to unlock the potential and understanding of these differences?
  
  **Tags:** ai-design
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Creating an AI to accurately simulate any human behaviour to the level at which we could learn from the AI would, currently, be a huge leap beyond our current capabilities.  
  > **username_2**: To back up Lio's point, training an AI to behave like any kind of life form in order to simulate even a subset of interactions with it, is currently a tall order. You can forget any mammals for a few years yet, let alone humans.  
  > **username_3**: This leads to another question: Why train an AI to be "special needs"? Now you have a "special needs" robot, and you're back where you started: How do you decipher what differentiates them?  
  > **username_4**: I don't think this is a good question for this site. It could be a good starter question for a PhD, but I wouldn't expect the question itself to be answered in the eventual thesis.  
  
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