Michael Henry Tessler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1802607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Henry Tessler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael Henry |
| FAMILY NAME | Tessler |
| SIGNATURE | TESSLER M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Google DeepMind (United Kingdom) |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3945-0239 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The impact of advanced AI systems on democracy
Modeling Individual Differences in Children’s Information Integration During Pragmatic Word Learning
Pragmatics is foundational to language use and learning. Computational cognitive models have been successfully used to predict pragmatic phenomena in adults and children – on an aggregate level. It is unclear if they can be used to predict behavior on an individual level. We address this question in children (N = 60, 3- to 5-year-olds), taking advantage of recent work on pragmatic cue integration. In Part 1, we use data from four independent task…
How young children integrate information sources to infer the meaning of words
Before formal education begins, children typically acquire a vocabulary of thousands of words. This learning process requires the use of many different information sources in their social environment, including their current state of knowledge and the context in which they hear words used. How is this information integrated? We specify a developmental model according to which children consider information sources in an age-specific way and integr…
Polite Speech Emerges From Competing Social Goals
Language is a remarkably efficient tool for transmitting information. Yet human speakers make statements that are inefficient, imprecise, or even contrary to their own beliefs, all in the service of being polite. What rational machinery underlies polite language use? Here, we show that polite speech emerges from the competition of three communicative goals: to convey information, to be kind, and to present oneself in a good light. We formalize th…
How young children integrate information sources to infer the meaning of words
Before formal education begins, children typically acquire a vocabulary of thousands of words. This learning process requires the use of many different information sources in their social environment, including their current state of knowledge and the context in which they hear words used. How is this information integrated? We specify a developmental model according to which children consider information sources in an age-specific way and integr…
Polite Speech Emerges From Competing Social Goals
Language is a remarkably efficient tool for transmitting information. Yet human speakers make statements that are inefficient, imprecise, or even contrary to their own beliefs, all in the service of being polite. What rational machinery underlies polite language use? Here, we show that polite speech emerges from the competition of three communicative goals: to convey information, to be kind, and to present oneself in a good light. We formalize th…
How young children integrate information sources to infer the meaning of words
Before formal education begins, children typically acquire a vocabulary of thousands of words. This learning process requires the use of many different information sources in their social environment, including their current state of knowledge and the context in which they hear words used. How is this information integrated? We specify a developmental model according to which children consider information sources in an age-specific way and integr…
Modeling Individual Differences in Children’s Information Integration During Pragmatic Word Learning
Pragmatics is foundational to language use and learning. Computational cognitive models have been successfully used to predict pragmatic phenomena in adults and children – on an aggregate level. It is unclear if they can be used to predict behavior on an individual level. We address this question in children (N = 60, 3- to 5-year-olds), taking advantage of recent work on pragmatic cue integration. In Part 1, we use data from four independent task…
The impact of advanced AI systems on democracy
Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (2 works) · Language Development and Disorders (2 works) · Natural language processing (2 works) · Ask price (1 works) · Bayesian inference (1 works)