no code implementations • 17 Jul 2017 • Ethan Fast, Binbin Chen, Julia Mendelsohn, Jonathan Bassen, Michael Bernstein
Today's conversational agents are restricted to simple standalone commands.
no code implementations • 16 Sep 2016 • Ethan Fast, Eric Horvitz
We find that discussion of AI has increased sharply since 2009, and that these discussions have been consistently more optimistic than pessimistic.
no code implementations • EMNLP 2016 • Ethan Fast, Eric Horvitz
When we use our predictive model to analyze millions of other Reddit posts, we find evidence that suggests dogmatism is a deeper personality trait, present for dogmatic users across many different domains, and that users who engage on dogmatic comments tend to show increases in dogmatic posts themselves.
no code implementations • 29 Mar 2016 • Ethan Fast, Tina Vachovsky, Michael S. Bernstein
In this paper, we present a technique that combines natural language processing with a crowdsourced lexicon of stereotypes to capture gender biases in fiction.
no code implementations • 22 Feb 2016 • Ethan Fast, William McGrath, Pranav Rajpurkar, Michael Bernstein
From smart homes that prepare coffee when we wake, to phones that know not to interrupt us during important conversations, our collective visions of HCI imagine a future in which computers understand a broad range of human behaviors.
2 code implementations • 22 Feb 2016 • Ethan Fast, Binbin Chen, Michael Bernstein
Given a small set of seed words that characterize a category, Empath uses its neural embedding to discover new related terms, then validates the category with a crowd-powered filter.