#7 Hedvig Kjellström: Communication, Cognition, and AI

Hedvig Kjellström is a Professor in the Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning, KTH, and also affiliated with Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Silo AI, Swedish e-Science Research Centre, and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany.

The general theme of her research is the study of methods for enabling artificial agents to interpret human and animal behavior. These studies have been applied in the study of human aesthetic bodily expressions such as in music and dance, modeling and interpreting human communicative behavior, and the understanding of animal behavior and experiences.

Chapters:

0:00 - Introduction

0:40 - AI-Human interaction

11:00 - Study of humans

15:10 - Developing AI models

19:08 - Creativity and AI

23:20 - AI & understanding

28:36 - Thought without language

37:00 - Non-human Intelligence

41:00 - Projecting feelings on AI

46:18 - Regulations

51:56 - Open source models

54:34 - Watermarking

55:34 - Hopes & concerns

59:20 - AGI and embodied models

1:01:10 - Future of jobs

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