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Soroush: This is a prototype of a Hodor holding the door. He’s got something made by a 3-D printer on there. Important books about algorithms, machine learning, and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. Complimenting and asking him about the items on his bookshelf. I start to do what any student does when they’re looking for extra credit with a professor. He says there’s an angry email thread about this very issue in the Computer Science school’s listserv right now. And ironically, this computer science professor is currently powerless to change it. Never good for an audio interview.īen: Is there any way to turn that air off?īen: The air is controlled by software.

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It learns how to sail itself.īen: We get into Soroush’s office, where the central air is on. Soroush: It's actually an autonomous sailboat. An expensive looking remote controlled sailboat.

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Past floors of hardware labs and software labs. He takes me up a floating staircase to the top floor of the building. A program designed to predict the onset of serious mental health challenges. Soroush: I work on machine learning and natural language processing, and I do a lot of work with social media data.īen: I’ve come here to get Soroush to tell me about a project he and some grad students recently worked on that’s kind of on the academic bleeding edge of what machines can do with social media data.

Though in a way, he does deal with certain kinds of architecture. Yeah.Īmory: A nice sounding observation, but from his answer I’m guessing Soroush is not a professor of architecture.īen: Correct. A whole that's greater than the sum of the individuals. (Laughs.)īen: Lots of individual cells that make up a whole or something. What were you talking to Dartmouth College assistant professor Soroush Vosoughi about?īen: Well first, how cool the atrium of his building is. I did not like school…per se.īen: You’re a “school drools” kind of person?Īmory: All the time. Helpful campus pedestrian: Have you been here before?Īmory: Hm, okay, that does check out. And especially professors who work in very nice new buildings. This one that you’re looking at right here.Īmory Sivertson: I wouldn’t have pegged you for an office hours student Ben, I gotta say.īen: Yeah, but I love hanging out with everyone. Helpful campus pedestrian: Yes it’s this building.

Hey can you tell me, is this the new computer science building? Do you know? Trying to figure out where I’m going in order to meet a professor during office hours. music, sound effects, tone) are harder to translate to text.īen Brock Johnson: I am back at college for the fall semester. The transcript has been edited from our original script for clarity. This content was originally created for audio. Everyone who makes a monthly donation will get access to exclusive bonus content. If you want that too, we would deeply appreciate your contribution to our work in any amount. We love making Endless Thread, and we want to be able to keep making it far into the future. Show producers: Dean Russell, Quincy Walters, Nora Saks, Grace Tatter, and Megan Cattel

' Joseph Weizenbaum, professor emeritus of computer science, dies at 85' (MIT)Ĭo-hosts: Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson.

' Chatbots: A long and complicated history' (CNN Business).' Why Mastering Language Is So Difficult for AI' (Undark).Talk to ELIZA, the Computer Therapist (California State University, Fullerton).Why did this computer's creator have a lot of complicated feelings about the development of AI? We also contemplate the bigger question: can AI help us cope with mental health issues? How are these pieces of software - which are meant to imitate human behavior and language - influencing our daily lives in sneaky, surprising ways?įirst up, our co-hosts delve into the history of ELIZA, the world's first chatbot therapist. They're all over social media platforms, chatrooms, phone apps, and more. (Ben Brock Johnson/WBUR)įor the next few weeks, the Endless Thread team will be sharing stories about the rise of bots. All of the objects you see here are robots. A snapshot at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

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