Sensing and Sensemaking: Natural Language Processing, AI, and Global India

Dr. Jessica Seddon discusses with Professor Karthik Narasimhan, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Princeton University, and Dr. Manish Gupta, Director of Google Research India, how natural Language Processing (NLP), combined with advances in artificial intelligence (AI), has opened up new possibilities for human-computer interaction through speech. This episode discusses some of the emerging uses of the technology to expand access to the internet and the opportunities that it offers; support and sustain rarer languages; streamline healthcare and other social applications. The conversation touches on the risks involved with both deeper intelligence and new forms of interactions and discusses ways to shape the technologies’  trajectory.