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In August, I had the chance to speak with Peter Norvig, Director of Google Research, and asked him if he thought that techniques like deep learning could ever solve complicated tasks that are more characteristic of human intelligence, like understanding stories, which is something Norvig used to work on in the nineteen-eighties.
We came out of the Pleistocene with a tendency toward narrative that is so inbuilt that small kids start understanding stories when they're about fourteen months old: Now the cow runs up the hill.
Broca's area (left BA44/45) and the left temporal pole are structures that are known to be important for understanding stories [50].
A study performed by Happe et al. [ 22] showed that people with right hemisphere (including the temporal lobe) stoke exhibited specific impairments in understanding stories and cartoons that require mental-state attribution.
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Many of the stories significant enough to survive history's winnowing fan were about events so huge and traumatic that they became pillars of our world view and self-understanding: stories about great floods, fires, volcanic eruptions, deadly landslides, protracted wars, catastrophic plagues and famines and more.
It's one family's story, but in understanding their story we understand ourselves and our own ragged, imperfect families better too.
I saw fires as points of exciting narrative climax, moments of terrible understanding, as stories of rebirth.
"I really got hooked on knowing individual elephants, understanding their stories," she said.
Because as we become better at understanding the stories of others, we become better at understanding ourselves".
But when it comes to reading and understanding news stories online — like this one, for example — the medium can have a surprisingly potent effect on the message.
They earned the respect and buy-in by understanding the stories that mattered.
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