[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]

Reminder...this is tomorrow at noon (ET).

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 3:00 PM Aayush Bansal <aayushb at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> 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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