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#6 Alex Lascarides: Linguistics from Frege to Settlers of Catan

Alex is a professor and the director of the Institution for Language, Cognition and Computation at Edinburgh. She is interested in...

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#5 Felix Hill: Grounded Language, Transformers, and DeepMind

Felix is a research scientist at DeepMind. He is interested in grounded language understanding and natural language processing (NLP)....

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#4 Beren Millidge: Reinforcement Learning through Active Inference

Beren is a postdoc in Oxford with a background in machine learning and computational neuroscience. He is interested in Active Inference...

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Getting to know AI

‘Select all squares with traffic lights’ is a common online prompt to prove that you’re not a robot. It is also a typical task in machine...

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#2 Barbara Webb: Insect Robotics

Barbara is a professor of Biorobotics at Edinburgh. We start with a quick philosophical exploration of robots using chairs, James...

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Shooting your shot: Using reinforcement learning approaches to study place learning

Would you be able to find a café after just one previous visit? The answer for human and non-human animals is yes: they have the ability...