This website is a multi-nation, multi-lingual collaboration of a number of groups of students, entrepreneurs, early stage companies, and interested individuals.
It focuses on human and machine learning about speech and language in many languages. The human learning is based on the principle of learn-by-doing. Individually and in small teams the students will complete a number of projects of substance with real-world value up to and including entrepreneural projects producing an MVP (minimal viable product) and academic projects publishable in peer-reviewed journals.
The founding principle of this collaboration is the principle of cooperation as embodied in the philosophy of the Golden Rule and the alegory of the Long Spoons. Mathematically, these principles are represented by the theory of cooperative n-person games of von Neumann and Morgenstern as opposed to the Nash Equilibrium theory. With this philosophy, it believes in growth by way of a virtuous pyramid in which the greatest rewards are at the base, rather than at the top, of the pyramid. If this growth is successful, this effort could eventually lead to speech and language technology being developed for thousands of languages and to substantial progress on the grand challenges listed below.
The planned machine learning methodology will be a hybrid of hidden stochastic process modeling and deep learning based on deep neural networks (DNNs). This architecture is capable of implementation on a massively parallel, loosely connected network.
