Well, you know about the Chinese Room Argument, right?
Imagine if, instead of a Chinese/Chinese dictionary, we give you a Chinese conversation partner to teach the language. You will benefit from interaction, empathy, and a shared goal. ➟ For an explanation on emergent communication check out this awesome text by Michael Noukhovitch
Do we want future Siri to just reproduce commands and reactions or to really communicate? ➟ Learn more about my research
This was a long journey and I thank all of my wonderful supporters and supervisors!
I hadn't dared to dream of a Summa cum laude, but here it is. You can read it here open access. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to start into the topic of emergent communication and understanding the deeper connection...
We will be holding a live coding session at the NeurIPS workshop "Talking to Strangers: Zero-Shot Emergent Communication" on the interesting new multi-agent test bed CoMaze, inspired by a German board game called "Magic Maze"[1]