Humans That Think: A Future Trialogue

Using Trialogues to Measure English Language Skills

We explored the use of technology-assisted, trialogue-based tasks to measure the English language proficiency of students learning English as a second or foreign language. A presumed benefit of the system for language assessment is its suitability for use in scenario-based tasks that integrate multiple language skills. This integration allows test developers to simulate real-life language use s...

A Trialogue-Based Spoken Dialogue System for Assessment of English Language Learners

Current automated assessment techniques for English language learners evaluate comprehension and synthesis skills via written text or one-turn spoken responses, measuring essential skills needed for academic and professional environments. However, as these current tests do not include dialogue-based components, they cannot provide insight into the conversational competence of the testtaker. Thi...

Mind and Life, Religion and Science: His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Buddhism-Christianity-Science Trialogue

Discovering kinds of future-oriented thought using automated machine-learning techniques

Humans have a remarkable ability to think about the future. Our abilities to think about the future are essential for the level of goal construction, planning, and execution of plans that is only observable in humans. Thinking about the future has also been found to be important for the development of sense of self and for health and well-being. In spite of the importance of future-oriented tho...

We Think - Therefore We Are

Future developments in AI and robotics, brain interfaces, the Internet and virtual and augmented reality, will make possible new types of integration of humans and machines which will change how we think, learn and live. This paper uses a story about a future scenario involving systems of this kind to respond to crises and disasters to explore the possibilities of collective intelligence and co...