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[Intro music] Welcome everyone to this week's podcast episode. Today we have a very special guest joining us.
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Uh, so Dr. Smith, thank you for, um, taking the time to be with us today. Could you tell us a little bit about, uh, your research in artificial intelligence?
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Well, thank you for having me. The, uh, the field of AI has seen tremendous growth in recent years. My team has been focusing on, um, natural language processing and how we can make these systems more, uh, more human-like in their understanding.
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That's fascinating. Now, when you say "more human-like," could you, uh, expand on what you mean by that? Because I think our listeners would be very interested to hear about, um, the implications of that kind of advancement.
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Absolutely. So, uh, current systems are very good at pattern matching, right? But they lack, um, what we might call genuine understanding. My research focuses on, uh, creating models that can grasp context beyond just statistical patterns.