Speaker
Professor A. H. Tewfik
Date
Location
SEC 204
Abstract
Numerous articles in the general press warn against a dark future in which evermore powerful machines will displace humans. Yet, empirical evidence establishes that properly designed human – machine systems outperform man and machine and have the potential of increasing human creativity and cognitive abilities. In this talk, I will provide an overview of cognitive biases in human decision-making, give examples of man-machine symbiosis and review our recent work in the area. In particular, I will focus on machine-assisted human decision making and the use of brain machine interfaces to improve speech recognition, recognize the audio source a person is listening to and whether the person is listening to her mother tongue. Time permitting, I will describe some of the work that we have been performing on reducing the amount of data needed to train support vector machines and deep neural networks.