I’m not very well-versed in the CS aspect of ML or AI, but I really enjoyed reading about Redwood’s work and reading this post reminded me of something I found striking then. I am not a trained EFL teacher but I have a decent grasp of some of the theory and some experience with classroom observation at different levels and teaching/tutoring EFL, and the examples in your “Redwood Research’s current project” write up are very similar in a lot of ways to mistakes intermediate or almost proficient EFL speakers would make (not being able to track what pronouns are referring to across longer bodies of texts, not being able to grasp the implications of certain verbs when applied to certain objects etc). This makes me think that getting both language acquisition experts and EFL researchers’ perspectives on your data may also be interesting and useful to this kind of research.
I’m not very well-versed in the CS aspect of ML or AI, but I really enjoyed reading about Redwood’s work and reading this post reminded me of something I found striking then. I am not a trained EFL teacher but I have a decent grasp of some of the theory and some experience with classroom observation at different levels and teaching/tutoring EFL, and the examples in your “Redwood Research’s current project” write up are very similar in a lot of ways to mistakes intermediate or almost proficient EFL speakers would make (not being able to track what pronouns are referring to across longer bodies of texts, not being able to grasp the implications of certain verbs when applied to certain objects etc). This makes me think that getting both language acquisition experts and EFL researchers’ perspectives on your data may also be interesting and useful to this kind of research.