Progress in AI

Nasrin reflects on the significant advancements in natural language understanding over the past six years, emphasizing the impact of technologies on real-world applications. She shares her journey from robotics to focusing on common sense reasoning, highlighting the challenges AI faces in understanding context and meaning. Despite the progress marked by breakthroughs like transformers, she remains skeptical about the true depth of common sense in AI models, illustrated by her creation of a benchmark to test these capabilities.