• Question: what's your favourite scientific activity?

    Asked by emily to Huma, Jack, Lucy, Miranda, Peter on 5 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Huma Shah

      Huma Shah answered on 5 Nov 2016:

      Hello Emily,

      Thank you for your question.

      For me it’s designing Turing test experiments to find what kinds of questions human interrogators (children, teenagers and adults), put to robots/artificial dialogue systems and humans, and whether the interrogators can identify the human answers from the artificial/machine ones.

      You can try yourself by looking at the table in the short piece at the link below, which are the human and which are the machine answers in left and right columns?
      https://www.academia.edu/13629982/Human_or_Machine

      Hope this answer helps, if not please do ask another.

      Thanks,

      Huma

    • Photo: Peter Boorman

      Peter Boorman answered on 5 Nov 2016:

      Hi Emily,

      I love to be able to use programming to guess what hidden monster black holes look like behind their thick obscuring smog!

      Peter

    • Photo: Miranda Bane

      Miranda Bane answered on 11 Nov 2016:

      I love going out into my meadow and observing the bumblebees feeding on different plants. I like to be able to learn about their behavior in this real life setting because it is more unpredictable than my computer simulations.

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