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SUMMARY:Natural Language and Artificial Intelligence - Prof Ann Copestake 
 (University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Trinity College Science Society
DESCRIPTION:Come to the Old Combination Room on March 5 to hear from Profe
 ssor Ann Copestake\, co-Director of Cambridge Language Sciences and Head o
 f the Computer Science Department! \n\n"Most of the tasks in which current
  AI systems excel are not natural tasks for humans. Activities such as pla
 ying games\, recognising disease states from medical images\, finding answ
 ers to queries from terabytes of text are activities which require special
 ist training for humans. Such AI systems make use of vast quantities of ta
 sk-specific information\, in a way which is impossible for humans. In the 
 case of games\, the AIs can create such information themselves\, by playin
 g incredible numbers of games while learning. In other cases\, they can ac
 cess huge quantities of data with great rapidity. AI systems are generally
  less impressive with activities which are more natural for humans\, such 
 as car driving. In this talk\, I will focus on AI as it relates to human l
 anguage\, where machine learning techniques have allowed us to make huge a
 dvances recently\, but where the state-of-the art is very far from the abi
 lities which humans acquire naturally in childhood. I will discuss the ext
 ent to which insights from linguistics are reflected in current approaches
 \, and whether we might make more rapid progress by looking at techniques 
 which combine symbolic and neural approaches. I will illustrate the talk w
 ith examples from our current research in Cambridge."\n \nThis free talk w
 ill start at 18:15 with refreshments available from 18:00. To reach Old Co
 mbination Room\, enter via Great Gate\, go diagonally across the court\, i
 nto the hall and upstairs. You can find our banner near the entrance.\n \n
 See you there!
LOCATION:Old Combination Room (OCR)\, Trinity College
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