January 24, 2010 12:00 PM - 37 attended
Bert Koehler: Building AI Systems That Understand Humor
The talk will present an approach to understanding how to analyze and model cognitive processing of humor. Implementing this processing requires a new platform that will also be discussed. AI interoperability with the humanities will be explored too. There is no two-drink minimum, and you will not have to tip your waiter.
--------
Bert Koehler has been an engineering contractor and consultant in Silicon Valley for two decades. In parallel with his work with semiconductor firms in complex VLSI he has been doing AI research for decades with goal of merging AI and the humanities. Results have included progress in understanding humor, emotion, and fiction. He is writing several books on these subjects as well as a series of books on bases for engineering synthetic intelligences.
-
-
-
Olga Kostrova
That was informative as always. Thank to Monica and Bert. For the future I would suggest to leave Q&A for the end of each presentation, as we obviously overloaded Bert with questions and didn't leave him enough room to follow his slides and present result of his research.
Posted January 24, 2010 at 4:00 PM -
Andrew Rondeau
The discussion on what makes something funny was interesting from a philosophical view. As an AI enthusiast; I was hoping that Bert would show a working joke detector, and was willing to overlook the fact that jokes would need to be expressed in something other then normal English. In my opinion, a working demo, or examples of jokes and non-jokes that the system can identify, would give Bert's higher-level design credibility.
Posted January 24, 2010 at 9:16 PM -
Bert Kaye
Apologies to Ms Atkins for my having provided a loud PA system and noisy crowd in the other room, during my talk, disrupting me and making it not fun for you. Also for rambling horribly and not knowing the literature of the field I've researched for 25 years. I agree with Mr. Rondeau that I should have instantly implemented a large complex software system to give him immediate gratification, and was at fault in not demoing full human NLP for his pleasure, since it is so simple to do.
Posted January 25, 2010 at 4:00 AM -
Monica
Bert jests. This one is, I believe, "Just Triumph" :-P
Of course, it's as unnecessary for him to apologize as it is for me as facilitator. TechShop gracefully lets us use a meeting space that seats 70 with an HDTV projector twice a month. For free. Which means I as a facilitator can't ask for my money back. Neither can you in the audience. This was the second worst of four bad events out of 75.
Andrew should realize that we need to know what to do before doing.
Debate twice, code once.Posted January 25, 2010 at 8:03 AM -
RSVPs closed
-
-
Alex E.It was my first AI meetup; many people, some really nice, but I expected more opportunity for social interaction.
-
Samantha AtkinsHe rambles horribly, doesn't know the literature, skips basics, has no material on the net. Not fun.
-
Clive Boultonmy awareness of the components of an erector set necessary to build perceptive systems was increased, there is a lot to do
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
A former member
-
A former member+1 guest
-
A former member
Offer a perk for our members and get exposure.
Offer a perk →
Other nearbyMeetups
The Meetup Groups shown here are topically similar to Bay Area Artificial Intelligence Meetup Group.
Groups are more likely to be displayed here if they:
- have a Meetup scheduled
- have a high rating
- have a group photo
- are "public" and not "private"
- have shown they are likely to stick around (older than 30 days)
-
42 Members
-
68 Children Of The Light
-
-
-
68 Members
-
18 Health Seekers
near Menlo Park
Maybe for discussion over pizza:
Paralysis Of Analysis - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13