AI Research by CLIP Graduate Student Advised by Daumé Featured in MIT Technology Review

Research in artificial intelligence (AI) by Mohit Iyyer, a fifth-year computer science doctoral student and member of the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (CLIP) Lab, was recently featured in MIT Technology Review.

Iyyer and his team found that AI machines cannot full grasp a storyline in a comic book based on text and pictures alone. Instead, the reader has to make significant inferences and extrapolations when jumping from panel to panel. This complex process of viewing an individual panel and understanding how it connects to previous ones is called “closure" and, for the moment, it is a uniquely human ability.

Iyyer is advised by Hal Daumé III, an associate professor of computer science and director of the CLIP Lab.

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