How machines learn to talk: Challenges and opportunities of machine learning for Conversational AI

The RSE introduces a new series of online discussions on Artificial Intelligence: RSE Investigates … AI. These enlightening conversations will highlight the impact of AI on society.

The third talk of the series “How machines learn to talk. Challenges and opportunities of machine learning for Conversational AI” features Professor Verena Rieser, Professor of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University

Amazon Alexa, Apple’s Siri or Google’s assistant are able to converse with humans using language. The underlying technology – often referred to as spoken dialogue systems – have experienced a revolution over the past decade, moving from being completely handcrafted to using data-driven machine learning methods.