Lake's research is focused on human and artificial intelligence, and he hopes that by understanding how toddlers learn language, he can create better tools for understanding both AI and human cognition. The research aims to bridge the gap between the study of human language acquisition and AI language models, allowing the two areas to inform each other.
Key takeaways:
- Brenden Lake, a psychologist at New York University, has been recording his daughter's point of view for an hour each week for the past 11 months to better understand how infants acquire language.
- The goal of this research is to use the videos to train a language model using the same sensory input that a toddler is exposed to, creating a 'LunaBot'.
- By doing so, Lake hopes to create better tools for understanding both artificial intelligence and human cognition.
- The research aims to bridge the gap between two areas of study - human language acquisition and artificial intelligence - and put them in dialogue with each other.