Computers are terrible at learning language. Would they be any better if they learned it like humans have to?
A team of computer scientists has built a ‘robot baby’ that is interacting with people and learning to speak. Ground-breaking, or just creepy?
Linguist Daniel Midgley babbles away on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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Humanoid Robot Learns Language Like a Baby
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/robot-talk/
New discoveries with language learning robots
https://web.archive.org/web/20150910115902/http://blogs.herts.ac.uk/research/2012/06/14/new-discoveries-with-language-learning-robots/
