Language Understanding
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Over the years, my thinking about AI has gradually shifted from building purely transactional systems to understanding the importance of relational intelligence. Drawing on experiences from speech technology, conversation design, social robotics, and more recently large language models, I have come to see conversation not just as a more natural interface, but as a way…
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If I had to chose one of the areas of human-machine natural communication where we haven’t ben able to make any significant stride during the past decades, I would choose “general” language understanding. Don’t get me wrong. Language understanding per se has made huge steps ahead. IBM Watson‘s victory over Jeopardy! human champions is a testimony of
THE VOICE IN THE MACHINE 