The Good Robot Podcast: Rebecca Woods on large language models, language and meaning

Hosted by Eleanor Drage and Kerry Mackereth, The Good Robot is a podcast which explores the many complex intersections between gender, feminism and technology. In this episode, we talked to Rebecca Woods, a Senior Lecturer in Language and Cognition at Newcastle University. We have an amazing chat about language learning in AI, and she tells us how language is crucial to how GPT functions. She's also an expert in how children learn languages, and she compares this to teaching AI how to process language. Rebecca is a Lecturer in Language and Cognition in the School of English Language, Literature and Linguistics at Newcastle University.