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#57 - Prof. Melanie Mitchell - Why AI is harder than we think

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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The Risk of Anthropomorphization in Babies

You said in your neurips tak that language based tasks actually increases the risk of anthropemorphization. So what do you think we should do to, uh, to manage this? Well, i always find it very strange that people try and focus on language before they focus on sort of the basic concepts that babies learn prelinguistically,. And i can see why we wantit. We ywan to have tools, useful tools that deal with natual language. But if we're actually getting machines to try and understand things, um, as opposed to just be some useful tool, i i think that putting language irs is sort of the cart before the horse.

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