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Alison Wood Brooks

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2569 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Alison Wood Brooks (on the science of conversation)

We needed natural language processing and machine learning to help us analyze tons of transcripts at once. We just weren't ready to do it until very recently. But as we were sort of like, oh, we should do that. We should record tons of conversations and analyze them.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Alison Wood Brooks (on the science of conversation)

We needed natural language processing and machine learning to help us analyze tons of transcripts at once. We just weren't ready to do it until very recently. But as we were sort of like, oh, we should do that. We should record tons of conversations and analyze them.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Alison Wood Brooks (on the science of conversation)

I also realized conversation is just like those coordination games that the game theorists were studying back in the 1950s, like Thomas Schelling. He has a famous one where he asked people, if you had to meet up with people at noon tomorrow in New York City, where would you go?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Alison Wood Brooks (on the science of conversation)

I also realized conversation is just like those coordination games that the game theorists were studying back in the 1950s, like Thomas Schelling. He has a famous one where he asked people, if you had to meet up with people at noon tomorrow in New York City, where would you go?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Alison Wood Brooks (on the science of conversation)

I also realized conversation is just like those coordination games that the game theorists were studying back in the 1950s, like Thomas Schelling. He has a famous one where he asked people, if you had to meet up with people at noon tomorrow in New York City, where would you go?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Alison Wood Brooks (on the science of conversation)

Is it a riddle or is it just a fun talking? It's just a coordination game. You can't talk about it. Oh. And everybody writes down their answer.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Alison Wood Brooks (on the science of conversation)

Is it a riddle or is it just a fun talking? It's just a coordination game. You can't talk about it. Oh. And everybody writes down their answer.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Alison Wood Brooks (on the science of conversation)

Is it a riddle or is it just a fun talking? It's just a coordination game. You can't talk about it. Oh. And everybody writes down their answer.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Alison Wood Brooks (on the science of conversation)

Let's pick L.A. Let's do it. Okay, yeah. So if you had to meet up with Monica tomorrow somewhere in L.A. at noon, think in your mind where you would go. And it's not here. It can't be here.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Alison Wood Brooks (on the science of conversation)

Let's pick L.A. Let's do it. Okay, yeah. So if you had to meet up with Monica tomorrow somewhere in L.A. at noon, think in your mind where you would go. And it's not here. It can't be here.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Alison Wood Brooks (on the science of conversation)

Let's pick L.A. Let's do it. Okay, yeah. So if you had to meet up with Monica tomorrow somewhere in L.A. at noon, think in your mind where you would go. And it's not here. It can't be here.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Alison Wood Brooks (on the science of conversation)

Monica, what's your answer? Cara.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Alison Wood Brooks (on the science of conversation)

Monica, what's your answer? Cara.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Alison Wood Brooks (on the science of conversation)

Monica, what's your answer? Cara.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Alison Wood Brooks (on the science of conversation)

Oh, the bar at Cara? Yeah. Or the restaurant.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Alison Wood Brooks (on the science of conversation)

Oh, the bar at Cara? Yeah. Or the restaurant.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Alison Wood Brooks (on the science of conversation)

Oh, the bar at Cara? Yeah. Or the restaurant.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Alison Wood Brooks (on the science of conversation)

The most frequent one that people say is Grand Central Station. Everyone will be arriving there.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Alison Wood Brooks (on the science of conversation)

The most frequent one that people say is Grand Central Station. Everyone will be arriving there.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Alison Wood Brooks (on the science of conversation)

The most frequent one that people say is Grand Central Station. Everyone will be arriving there.