Yejin Choi is a Professor at the School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington and also a senior research director at AI2. She received her doctorate in Computer Science at Cornell University and bachelor's in Computer Science and Engineering at Seoul National University in Korea. Her research investigates a wide variety problems across NLP and AI including commonsense knowledge and reasoning, neural language (de-)generation, language grounding with vision and experience, and AI for social good. She is a MacArthur Fellow and a recipient of many best paper awards, such as NAACL, I C ML, NeurIPS, I C C V, and triple A I. She is the recipient of ACL and CVPR Test of Time awards. She won the inaugural Alexa Prize and was one of IEEE AI's 10 to Watch. GUEST LINKS: Yejin's Website: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~yejin/ Yejin's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yejin-choi-0b900b1/ Yejin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/YejinChoinka PODCAST INFO: Podcast Website: https://www.yasppodcast.com/ Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/yasp_podcast Podcast Discord: https://discord.gg/JkRMnC5frj Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:58 What is Common Sense? Why is it so hard for Computers and AI? 7:05 Common sense in a logical, social, and cultural lens 15:40 How does AI leverage various forms of reasoning? 30:30 Unconscious Reasoning 32:50 Large Language Models and "Emergent Phenomena" 41:08 How did you find this problem? What made you want to study AI/NLP? 44:30 Who inspired you? 48:20 What is Natural Language Processing (NLP)? 50:10 Seq2Seq, Attentiion, and Transformers 54:20 Semi Supervised, Unsupervised, and Information Theory in NLP 1:05:40 Computer Vision and Language Grounding 1:12:40 Physical Common Sense in AI 1:14:30 Social Common Sense in AI 1:19:30 Logic Solvers and MaxSAT in NLP 1:26:10 Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis 1:29:10 Is NLP Engineering or Science? 1:31:45 Language, Reasoning, AI, and Consciousness 1:37:00 Can Machines Learn Morals? 1:46:30 AI for Social Good 1:54:45 Post Turing Test Society 2:00:40 AI, Engagement, Consumerism, and Surveillance Capitalism 2:08:15 Could AI eliminate the working class? 2:13:40 Optimism, and Positive Impacts of AI