AI 'CHEF' Could Help Those With Cognitive Declines Complete Home Tasks

In the United States, 11% of adults over age 45 self-report some cognitive decline, which may impact their ability to care for themselves and perform tasks such as cooking or paying bills. A team of Washington University in St. Louis researchers has integrated two novel vision-language models that create a potential artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that could help people remain independent. By combining vision-language models to recognize human action and an algorithm to detect cognitive sequencing errors, they have taken a step toward creating a nonintrusive AI-based assistant for these individuals.