Episode 771 • • 3:09 - 11:20
771: Hunger Winter
Professor Jamie Pennebaker, Linguistic Inquiry Word Count Analysis
A dinner with "Obots" features Professor Jamie Pennebaker, author of The Secret Life of Pronouns and creator of the Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC) system. Pennebaker describes his work for intelligence agencies like the FBI and CIA, his belief that Amazon's Alexa represents true artificial intelligence, and his collaboration with Microsoft's Cortana team.