Nick Chater and Morton Christensen, authors of the language game "Intelligent Squared," talk about machine translation. They say it's a phenomenal progress in the last 30 plus years - more than they did finished their PhDs. But computers are not doing anything to collaborate with each other as we do right now when we're interacting for the sake of this conversation that we've just had.
Morten Christiansen is Professor of Psychology at Cornell University and Nick Chater is Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School. Together, they've written The Language Game, a new book which explores the science and psychology of language and some of its mysteries too. Hosting the discussion is journalist Christine Ro, whose work covers areas ranging from science and culture to international development.
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