[AI Seminar] Online AI Seminar on Oct 13 (Zoom) -- Hyowon Gweon -- Learning from others, helping others learn: Cognitive foundations of distinctively human social learning -- AI seminar is sponsored by Fortive.

[Aayush Bansal]

Hyowon Gweon (Stanford University) will be giving an online seminar on
"Learning
from others, helping others learn: Cognitive foundations of distinctively
human social learning" from 12:00 noon - 01:00 PM ET on Oct 13.

*Zoom Link*:
https://cmu.zoom.us/j/94110891366?pwd=clRvTHNrS3o3Tld5RUQ5UVN0dHNRdz09

CMU AI Seminar is sponsored by Fortive.

Following are the details of the talk:

*Title: *Learning from others, helping others learn: Cognitive foundations
of distinctively human social learning

*Abstract: *Learning does not occur in isolation. From parent-child
interactions to formal classroom environments, humans explore, learn, and
communicate in rich, diverse social contexts. Rather than simply observing
and copying their conspecifics, humans engage in a range of epistemic
practices that actively recruit those around them. What makes human social
learning so distinctive, powerful, and smart?

In this talk, I will present a series of studies that reveal the remarkably
sophisticated inferential abilities that young children show not only in
how they learn from others but also in how they help others learn. Children
interact with others as learners and as teachers to learn and communicate
about the world, about others, and even about the self. The results
collectively paint a picture of human social learning that is far more than
copying and imitation: It is active, bidirectional, and cooperative. I will
end by discussing new efforts to understand what motivates humans to engage
in these interactions, and implications for building better machines that
learn from and interact with humans.


*Bio*: Hyowon (Hyo) Gweon (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Psychology and Director of Graduate Studies for the Symbolic
Systems Program at Stanford University. Hyo received her Ph.D. in Cognitive
Science (2012) from MIT, where she continued as a post-doc before joining
Stanford in 2014. Hyo is broadly interested in how humans learn from others
and help others learn. Taking an interdisciplinary approach that combines
developmental, computational, and neuroimaging methods, her research aims
to explain the cognitive underpinnings of distinctively human learning,
communication, and prosocial behaviors. She has been named as a Richard E.
Guggenhime Faculty Scholar (2020) and a David Huntington Dean's Faculty
Scholar (2019), and received the APS Janet Spence Award for Transformative
Early Career Contributions (2020), Jacobs Early Career Fellowship (2020),
James S. McDonnell Scholar Award for Human Cognition (2018), APA
Dissertation Award (2014), and Marr Prize (best student paper, Cognitive
Science Society 2010).


To learn more about the seminar series, please visit the website:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aiseminar/


-- 
Aayush Bansal
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aayushb/
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