“...non-autistic people filter out large parts of the world around them, imagine a whole lot to fill in the gaps, and are generally unable to stop even when it would be useful to stop... there are serious questions as to which group of people is more 'in their own world' or 'detached from reality'”
“The courses are not simple entertainment videogames nor 'repeat after me'training programs. They are 'serious games' that combine patent-pending technologies, including computational models of language, culture and learning; artificial-intelligence-based psychological simulations that dynamically control the unscripted, autonomous behavior of the games' animated characters; and contextual, speaker-independent speech recognition models for non-native speakers.”