Layla El Asri's guest appearances

Layla El Asri

Microsoft Research Podcast

Chris White

Max Welling

Peter Lee

Peyton Jones

Kevin Scott

Amos Miller

Brad Smith

Nathalie Riche

Ben Zorn

Eve Langelier

Mona Nemer

Manon Bergeron

Josette-Renée Landry

Louise Caroline Bergeron

Alex Zandra

OwlTail

La journaliste Chloé Freslon s'entretient avec Layla El Asri, gestionnaire de recherche chez Microsoft et spécialiste de l'intelligence artificielle. Ce balado est une coproduction du magazine Québec Science et de l'Acfas, en collaboration avec la Commission canadienne pour l'UNESCO, L'Oréal Canada et la radio web CHOQ.ca. Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous à l'adresse suivante: www.quebecscience.qc.ca/balados/20-pourcent

La journaliste Chloé Freslon s'entretient avec Layla El Asri, gestionnaire de recherche chez Microsoft et spécialiste de l'intelligence artificielle. Ce balado est une coproduction du magazine Québec Science et de l'Acfas, en collaboration avec la Commission canadienne pour l'UNESCO, L'Oréal Canada et la radio web <a href="http://CHOQ.ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CHOQ.ca</a>. Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous à l'adresse suivante: <a href="http://www.quebecscience.qc.ca/balados/20-pourcent" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.quebecscience.qc.ca/balados/20-pourcent</a>

Entrevue avec Layla El Asri, gestionnaire de recherche chez Microsoft

Humans are unique in their ability to learn from, understand the world through and communicate with language… Or are they? Perhaps not for long, if Dr. Layla El Asri, a Research Manager at Microsoft Research Montreal, has a say in it. She wants you to be able to talk to your machine just like you’d talk to another person. That’s the easy part. The hard part is getting your machine to understand and talk back to you like it’s that other person. Today, Dr. El Asri talks about the particular challenges she and other scientists face in building sophisticated dialogue systems that lay the foundation for talking machines. She also explains how reinforcement learning, in the form of a text game generator called TextWorld, is helping us get there, and relates a fascinating story from more than fifty years ago that reveals some of the safeguards necessary to ensure that when we design machines specifically to pass the Turing test, we design them in an ethical and responsible way.

<p>Humans are unique in their ability to learn from, understand the world through and communicate with language… Or are they? Perhaps not for long, if Dr. Layla El Asri, a Research Manager at Microsoft Research Montreal, has a say in it. She wants you to be able to talk to your machine just like you’d talk to another person. That’s the easy part. The hard part is getting your machine to understand and talk back to you like it’s that other person.</p> <p>Today, Dr. El Asri talks about the particular challenges she and other scientists face in building sophisticated dialogue systems that lay the foundation for talking machines. She also explains how reinforcement learning, in the form of a text game generator called TextWorld, is helping us get there, and relates a fascinating story from more than fifty years ago that reveals some of the safeguards necessary to ensure that when we design machines specifically to pass the Turing test, we design them in an ethical and responsible way.</p>

064 - Talking with machines with Dr. Layla El Asri