Projects

Past (incomplete list)

Goal: create a suite of online word games to further AI research.
Project website (currently inactive, since data collection is complete):
speaktoai.com.
Currently, the project features one multiplayer game, aimed to collect data for improving compositionality of sentence embedding models. Check out the project website with a high-level description and instructions, or just enter the game and figure it out on the fly.
Motivation: multiplayer word games require exercising the most advanced and fascinating properties of human cognition, such as rapidly switching between different levels of abstraction, utilizing surprising alalogies, combining logic and intuition. At the same time, they rarely rely on rote knowledge of obscure facts, which eliminates the advantage of traditional information retrieval systems. Word games focus directly on mastering the process of thinking itself, with different games focusing on different aspects of this process. I believe that this makes solving word games a challenging and exciting problem for the AI community to focus on.
Plans: The set of games in the project should be expanded. Your ideas and collaborations are very welcome! I especially look for people with some experience in web development or AI/Machine Learning/Natural Language Processing, but if you want to contribute by promoting the project, improving its design, sharing your ideas, or in any other way - I would still be happy to hear from you!