SVEC member Organizations:
Thursday, November 14, 2019, 5:00PM – 8:30 PM PDT. The event is FREE.
Warm delicious food (no pizza or sandwiches) & drinks will be provided
This Open House event is organized by:
Silicon Valley Engineering Council www.svec.org in benefit of all its members
Sponsored by our member organizations:
Speaker: Eric Saund
Research Scientist
Keynote Topic: Modern Robot Psychology
Location: SEMI at 673 South Milpitas Boulevard Milpitas, CA 95035-5446 (View Map)
PROGRAM:
Abstract:
Can you diagnose and fix your car? Can you reboot your router?
We get along with technology better when we have some operational understanding
of how it works. As we an approach an age when robots and other artificially
intelligent agents surround us, we must expand our mental models of machines to
include those that display autonomous goal-directed behaviors and even evoke
notions of intentionality. As a case in point, today's Conversational Agents
are simultaneously very smart, and very dumb. This talk will review the
Natural Language Processing and knowledge modeling technologies that give
Alexa and Google Home remarkable and engaging question answering and chat
abilities. I will offer some fun tips on how to reverse-engineer how these
devices "think".
Bio:
Eric Saund is a research scientist, developer, and consultant whose work spans multiple fields of intelligent systems, including conversational agents, document analytics, perceptually supported user interfaces, machine learning, and computational vision. Eric received a B.S. from Caltech and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from MIT. He served in research and research management roles at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, he has published widely, his prototypes have served thousands of users, and he has been awarded 60 patents to date.
Open to all to attend
(Online registration is needed. If you did not register, seating is not guaranteed.)
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