Description
Instructor(s)/Supervisor(s)/Coordinator(s): Dekai WUThis course examines leading frontiers of AI and NLP, building from the widely acclaimed new MIT Press book Raising AI. Large language models are impressive but still unable to truly understand and share the feelings and thoughts of the human-which is the very definition of empathy. Most of meaning actually lies in what’s not said: the omitted context. True AI breakthroughs will have to emerge from understanding how context contributes to meaning-beyond the simplistic context windows of LLMs. We will design and prototype new empathetic AI understanding models to recognize and measure these deeper levels of meaning. Major societal applications include misinformation theory, information disorder, algorithmic bias, and mental well-being AI.