Thursday Morning Talk

With research in machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP), we aim to give machines the ability to understand and use human language. In this talk, I give a high level introduction of some of the challenges of the field and give an overview of basic NLP tasks (and show some demos). I also

Abstract: Research in robotics and A.I. aims at optimizing very specific task rewards. Intelligent animals have a high degree of curiosity, and recent results have shown that instrumental reward optimization is a poor explanation for their behavior. We can show that to explain empirical results from animals, we need to have the drive to optimize

Abstract: Animals are equipped with a rich innate repertoire of sensory, behavioral and motor skills, which allows them to interact with the world immediately after birth. At the same time, many behaviors are highly adaptive and can be tailored to specific environments by means of learning and exploration. In this work, we use mathematical analysis