Eli Saslow

And who, with a pickaxe at 112 pounds, clawed her way up the tallest base-to-peak mountain in the lower 48th.

And the few neighbors in this area who know Jan are all concerned about her.

the fire department, which is several miles away, they go and they check in.

And it was the fire department who actually identified Jan as a great candidate for this pilot program to receive this artificial intelligence machine to maybe help provide some company to her and some companionship inside that house.

The fire department, some of those guys said to me that when they went to Jan's house, they felt a little heartbroken every time they would leave.

Because Jan is a really social person.

She likes to talk.

Her kids have told her, you could talk a rock to death.

So she wants to be in conversation with people.

They could feel the ways in which this loneliness was beginning to eat at her.

And they could also see it, right?

Her doctors had recognized this beginning of a cognitive decline where her word recall wasn't what it was.

And she also has physical issues.

She's got really bad scoliosis symptoms.

That has bent her over from at one point she was five foot two.

Now she's down almost to four foot six.

She's very strong and determined, but she's also at serious risk of a fall that could really change her life very quickly.

So they recognized that she needed something there that was keeping an eye on her in some way.

So one day when the fire department came to check on her, they had this box that

And inside was this little device.