Where is Psychology Now? - Humans vs. Machines in Understanding Language
Date and time
Description
Humans vs. Machines in Understanding Language
Speakers:
Prof Sophie Scott (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) vs. Dr. Christos Christodoulopoulos (Amazon Alexa)
Topics to be discussed:
- Can a machine solving a problem (e.g. learning/understanding language) one way tell us anything about how humans might solve the same problem?
- Infant vs. machine language acquisition - an extension of the innate vs. ‘blank slate’ debate?
- Retrieving lexical identity of a word - by human vs. machine
- Affective computing - should machines detect affect in human voices? Should computers attempt to produce emotional speech?
- Vector models of Natural Language Processing vs. Word Net models in Psycholinguistics
- Does the machine need to be embodied and placed in a social setting (like a human) to learn a language?