Claire Y. Song

Synopsis of Research in Shanghai: September 11 - December 8

Claire Y. Song’s work focuses on the linguistics and translation problems of Chinese and English, in the age of the mechanization of language understanding, generation and translation. In recent years there has been a growth in the quick evolution of powerful natural language processing models, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT (2022). Song is setting out to investigate the assumptions and findings about languages on the part of linguists, philosophers, neural scientists and computer scientists, in their dialogues, debates and collaborations on the merging of natural language and mechanical processes, which is a key legacy of the Cold War.