Read a study that said AI can now spot early Alzheimer's from speech patterns with 90% accuracy

I found this in a research paper from Stanford last week. They trained a model on thousands of voice recordings from older adults, and it picks up tiny changes in word choice and pauses that doctors miss. That's wild to me, like your casual chat could become a health check. Anyone else seen AI used for medical stuff in a way that felt surprisingly simple?

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jenny_hall11d ago

That's pretty amazing tech. My grandma's doctor actually mentioned something similar last month, but for Parkinson's. They were testing an app that tracks typing speed on a phone keyboard to look for early signs. Makes you wonder what other daily habits could give us health clues, right?

jamesroberts11d ago

Tracking daily habits for health clues seems like a privacy nightmare.

martinez.kim10d ago

Honestly, that kind of freaks me out a little. It feels like we're handing over way too much trust to a black box. What if the model gets it wrong and someone gets a scary false alarm? I've read about AI picking up biases from its training data, so it might miss signs in people with different accents or speech styles. I'd want a real doctor to have the final say, not just an algorithm listening to me talk.

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