S01 / E03: using language as a window on the mind Assistant professor Max van Duijn combines cognitive science with Artificial Intelligence (AI). His research is on children’s stories and the question if they have a so-called Theory of Mind. This is the ability to understand the mental state of somebody else and use this…
AI can do more every day than the day before, but no one can explain exactly how AI does what it does. In the new television program ‘We gaan er allemaal aan’ Valerio Zeno examines various disaster scenarios that could bring down humanity. In the first episode, he examines the dangers of AI. University lecturers…
Children’s stories as a window to investigate empathy Researcher Max van Duijn and PhD student Bram van Dijk apply language models to stories told by children to investigate empathy. For this research, they received the Best Paper Award at the Computational Natural Language Learning Conference in Singapore. Read the full interview in Dutch here, or…
Humbled to receive the best paper award @CoNLL@EMNLP in Singapore from programm chairs Jing Jiang and David Reitter for the Children’s Story Corpus we have been working on since 2019 in my Veni project at LIACS. It’s a pity Bram van Dijk wasn’t there as he did the majority of the work. Many, many thanks…
