Can AI Translate Your Baby’s Crying—and Save Their Life?

It’s a rite of passage for parents: hearing your newborn crying through the baby monitor randomly throughout the night, forcing you to wake up, get out of bed, and figure out what heck they need at 3 a.m. anyway. It could be as obvious as a diaper change—but often, it’s not. They might be hungry, colicky, or they just want to cry.

That might be enough to trigger flashbacks for some parents. The vast majority of new parents lose an average of three hours of sleep a night in the first year of their baby’s life, according to a survey conducted by U.K. baby furniture company Snuz. This often leads to sleep deprivation—which can result in harmful effects to the parents’ physical and mental health.

When it comes to caring for their child, though, there might be a technological solution to being able to both make their baby happy and catch more sleep: artificial intelligence. In the past few years—especially since the advent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT—researchers and tech companies have been honing in on AI hardware and software that can help take the guesswork out of caring for their children.

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