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Podcast: The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)
Episode: What the Human Brain Can Tell Us About NLP Models with Allyson Ettinger
Description: Today we continue our ICLR ‘21 series joined by Allyson Ettinger, an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. One of our favorite recurring conversations on the podcast is the two-way street that lies between machine learning and neuroscience, which Allyson explores through the modeling of cognitive processes that pertain to language. In our conversation, we discuss how she approaches assessing the competencies of AI, the value of control of confounding variables in AI research, and how the pattern matching traits of Ml/DL models are not necessarily exclusive to these systems. Allyson also participated in a re...