Deb Roy: The birth of a word

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  • čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
  • www.ted.com MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn.
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Komentáře • 259

  • @Gosain.abhi2010
    @Gosain.abhi2010 Před 9 lety +128

    This is the most knowledgable talk i have ever watched. Whole new level to big data and analytics. Marvellous efforts to collect data for 2 years and efficiently analysis the whole story - how words(language) been learned by a toddler. Amazing, deserves applause.

  • @Willwowlol
    @Willwowlol Před 10 lety +174

    Really thought i was trippin out at 6:30

    • @OrcaSpace
      @OrcaSpace Před 6 lety +8

      reminded me of a scene from Mr. Robot when Elliot did not sleep for a long time he started to see same thing.

    • @loslucky
      @loslucky Před 6 lety +8

      glitch in the Matrix ;)

    • @sammclone3967
      @sammclone3967 Před 6 lety +1

      Thought I was watching Michael J. Fox

    • @SycosenMerihem
      @SycosenMerihem Před 5 lety +1

      I didn't see anything, what are you talking about bruh?

    • @ericaramirez8900
      @ericaramirez8900 Před 5 lety +1

      Willwowlol i thought it was the app crashing lolllll

  • @sherrynestyak433
    @sherrynestyak433 Před 6 lety +47

    I used this info to teach my daughter to talk… She is 2,5, multilingual and has an insane vocabulary. Thank you MIT and thank you Deb Roy!!!

    • @maliaraee
      @maliaraee Před 5 lety +6

      Sherry Nestyak how did you implement these concepts ?

  • @haipengli4769
    @haipengli4769 Před 3 lety +40

    That's almost 10 years ago. Imagine what governments and big tech companies are capable of now.

  • @polostor
    @polostor Před 8 lety +31

    That is absolutely breathtaking study..I have to say I have underestimated this talk, I had the opportunity to see it few years ago, but I was like "not worth it" but yesterday friends encouraged me to do it and I have to say I regret that I thought it was not worth watching, because it was [more then worth watching]. Thank you TED, Thank you mr. Roy.

  • @makishamthorn1776
    @makishamthorn1776 Před 11 měsíci +3

    This TedTalk is both informative as well as heartwarming. Roy's recorded data will no doubt benefit our advancing development and will be especially important to his family's future generations.

  • @authorKurtFrenier
    @authorKurtFrenier Před 11 lety +14

    Still one of the most impressive TED talks. AND... Crucial to understand the impact of tv on social media...

  • @fernandocortes1187
    @fernandocortes1187 Před rokem +2

    3:00 Patterns language acquisition in social environments 4:20 blossoming of speech form 5:50 503 Words baby learned in a period of at 2 years old

  • @werecow2003
    @werecow2003 Před 13 lety +8

    Cool, I'm doing my thesis work on situated language learning, and Deb Roy has been one of my main influences. Nice to see this field get some TED time.

  • @RoughTake
    @RoughTake Před rokem +1

    Saw this when it was first published on TED Talks website many years ago now. The most deserved standing ovation of any talk I have seen over a decade later. His company would later go to talks with FB, but ultimately sell to Twitter.

  • @jbernopril
    @jbernopril Před 2 lety +5

    I am very inspired watching this talk and I am already imagining how this amazing group would work on a baby growing in a multilingual environment.
    I have 3 kids and I just watched how they adjusted themselves into speaking 3 languages and thought how wonderful this would have been if they were recorded and analyzed too. 🤣🤣🤣

  • @werecow2003
    @werecow2003 Před 13 lety +9

    @cheesebubba Roy's work is actually quite interesting. He's compiled by far the largest database on situated language use, which is extremely valuable for research in linguistics, especially since there is very little data out there that provides any context in which the language is used. What he's doing is pretty awesome to me as someone doing work in the field. He's also developed some of the first AI models for situated language learning (CELL being the first and the most well known).

  • @osenseijedi
    @osenseijedi Před 10 lety +51

    NSA be : heavy breathing....
    Joke apart, this is all really interesting. I only wish it won't be misused

    • @gregoriolobato3033
      @gregoriolobato3033 Před 4 lety

      Its a really interesting point of view. I think that it totaly will misused in wraping peoples minds.

    • @joeche7461
      @joeche7461 Před 4 lety +1

      @@gregoriolobato3033 agree

  • @MarkArandjus
    @MarkArandjus Před 13 lety +7

    The way the footage was put into a 3D projection is amazing!

  • @YY4Me133
    @YY4Me133 Před 13 lety +7

    Fascinating stuff. According to my mother, I was speaking in complete sentences by the time I was 9 months old. I was skeptical until I heard a friend's baby speak almost an entire sentence ("I good girl") at 2 1/2 months. I noticed that this baby did what I do - look at people's mouths, rather than their eyes, when they speak - and wonder if there's a connection.

  • @trihoang6842
    @trihoang6842 Před 10 lety +10

    How did his research team organize and present data in such a clear and beautiful way? Are there any programs out there that can create the same visual effects?

  • @wilgus28
    @wilgus28 Před 12 lety +9

    This doesn't really investigate what language is or how people learn language. Unless I'm missing something, it's just recording feedback loops that children use to get the phonemes just right. It seems like the son already had the meaning of 'water' he was just sounding it out until he got the word just right. 'Gaga' can mean water just as much as 'water' means water.

  • @giftn9531
    @giftn9531 Před 2 lety

    5:15 the peace on this man's face as he relives those precious moments...

  • @RewanNabeel1
    @RewanNabeel1 Před 10 lety +5

    This is incredible !
    I liked the idea that everything we say or hear really matters , really make a difference ..
    An excellent talk (Y)

  • @kianapouyat2226
    @kianapouyat2226 Před rokem +2

    This study is actually so biased. Of course, his son is going to be an early talker and have a good vocabulary like he is being fed words, always around people, and has professors as parents. The researcher is going to want to see trends and prove his ideas to benefit himself, so he is going to try and support his conclusions as best as possible. The study would be super beneficial with relating mass media and social environments plus linguistics but I don't really think it matters for children learning words. Of course, if you say a word a lot, the child is going to learn it. Like where else do you say bye besides at the door, come on. I think he should have done the study with a family who didn't know why they were being recorded to provide genuine data. Roy seems like he wants to be special or do something and is scraping anything he can together to do so.

  • @Melamori
    @Melamori Před 13 lety +4

    "Wow" Now that is devotion to science and research! Amazing piece of work! I cannot wait for a published paper. This is phenomenal!

  • @iCyberZombie1
    @iCyberZombie1 Před 9 lety +5

    This is one of the most interesting TED talk!!! 😤

  • @gabrielciaffone
    @gabrielciaffone Před 8 lety +13

    This is my favorite TED talk

    • @mcesar0901
      @mcesar0901 Před 8 lety

      Hey excuse me, I didn't understand the video because I am not very good with english listening. Can you explain me? Sorry if I mind you

    •  Před 7 lety

      You can try hearing it with subtitle captions turned on.

  • @nofutureface
    @nofutureface Před 13 lety +1

    this is amazing. if anything it shows the true strength tv/media have over our lives. unplug and lets have those conversations without the tv playing middle man and take our minds back.

  • @abhishekkumarkushwaha8183

    today I got to ask him a question it was a tough one but he answered very well.

  • @kasbahlover
    @kasbahlover Před 13 lety +1

    Speachless.

  • @Kojak7snap
    @Kojak7snap Před 13 lety +3

    Amazing research, but I hope the practice of blanketing a home with cameras doesn't become widespread. It really would be an invasion of privacy, in my opinion. Small children do not have the ability to understand this, and frequently have no power to change such things if they do disapprove. Any legal recourse by Child And Family Services to prevent such an occurrence, obversely, might easily lend itself to abusive interpretation.

  • @Truthiness231
    @Truthiness231 Před 13 lety +1

    Fantastic talk, definitely one of my favorites to date. Data gathering/sorting/displaying is one of the most important things for technology right now. Keep up the good work, MIT ^.^

  • @bioroid09
    @bioroid09 Před 12 lety +5

    @myassishappy it looked like everyone was having a seizure...

  • @Grayhome
    @Grayhome Před 12 lety +3

    4:55 for awesomeness.

  • @Elvyne963
    @Elvyne963 Před 11 lety +9

    I still don't get what the lesson in there, and how it can help us understand better how language is learnt. This is not a c.ritique, but an honest question.

    • @FromSaturntoMars-genZ
      @FromSaturntoMars-genZ Před 5 lety

      Huh same here

    • @demetergrasseater
      @demetergrasseater Před 5 lety +6

      By analyzing the progression of utterances from initial word formation/acquisition to the final, correct reproduction we can see how words begin to form and eventually become fully spoken words. If you want to know HOW LANGUAGE IS LEARNED as in, the big question HOW, good luck on that, we've been trying for years and still don't know. You need a team of linguists, neurologists, and psychologists all working together just to come up with vague theories about it. But those theories already exist. This talk was about specifically watching language formation as it happens.

    • @gregoriolobato3033
      @gregoriolobato3033 Před 4 lety +1

      I think how you get to learn words in first place, and how the tv or social media can make people talk about what they want. If you get bombarded from every channel, social media, and some friends talks about what they saw, you will be probably talking and thinking about that and not thinking about they dont want you to think, and other stuff like showing you things you didnt know they exist and now that the influencers, or somebody that has a lot o repercusion shows you, now you feel the urge to buy it. You should see some videos of Noam Chomsky about social media. You know what you see, what you dont see doesnt exist and now a lot of what you see comes from social media and TV.

    • @gregoriolobato3033
      @gregoriolobato3033 Před 4 lety +1

      Ah, and something else... Its not only what you see or dont see, it how you think of feel about what now you know. I mean, If I wanted to do someting that is good for me and bad for the rest of the country all I would have to do is to show only the part of the facts like is good for me and hide the part that is not. Like Im running for senator and via social media I only show the things I did good, and not the things that went bad, and the oposite whit my enemy. This goes to politics, economics, cientific papers, new in general, products, all that you could think about. You could watch the documentary on Netflix "The great Hack" about the social media and how they do this. Its really, really, scary and amazing.

  • @Bfavrestarr415
    @Bfavrestarr415 Před 12 lety +1

    One of the coolest things I've seen on TED. Amazing!

  • @acq128
    @acq128 Před 13 lety +1

    love how this is shared in the same way as described in the actual clip

  • @soupisgreat
    @soupisgreat Před 13 lety

    TED always strikes me with amazement with every lecture.

  • @swapanjain892
    @swapanjain892 Před 10 lety +5

    Wo!!the best ted talk ever!!

  • @joshuasy10
    @joshuasy10 Před 5 lety +3

    This is truely amazing... its like a time machine!

  • @Kotesu
    @Kotesu Před 13 lety +2

    Fascinating, but also a little unsettling. Seems all to useful for engineering or controlling social dynamics within a society or market.

  • @suatt38
    @suatt38 Před rokem

    He definitely deserved those applause at the end

  • @jeanmarcoslubczyk9763
    @jeanmarcoslubczyk9763 Před 6 lety +2

    This was awesome!! Great job!

  • @abhimanyushekhawat2626

    This is the most remarkable Ted Talk I have ever watched.

  • @cmd2tuts
    @cmd2tuts Před 13 lety

    Anyone remember that movie 'Deja-vu'? 8:00
    This guy's data is freaking beautiful...
    I love graphs now.

  • @liwymi
    @liwymi Před 13 lety +1

    Really says something about education and the way we learn. Teachers should be learning and adapting to us to help us learn, not the other way around. Student centred education. That's my theory anyway. I would love to see this technology and research applied in the classroom!!

  • @avedic
    @avedic Před 11 lety

    8:15 jesus christ! how cool is that? they sure went all out in analyzing all this data. that 3d flythrough is so cool...

  • @frankzhou2899
    @frankzhou2899 Před 3 lety +1

    Who thought it was their devices' fault starting from 6:40? And then reloaded and the same thing happend?

  • @TomFynn
    @TomFynn Před 13 lety

    Finally a TED talk with technology and engineering in it again.

  • @condemned75
    @condemned75 Před 12 lety +1

    I'm doing an English degree through the OU, but want a broader understanding of how we learn language (I also teach). Good luck with your Psycology classes.

  • @mesoelleithy6672
    @mesoelleithy6672 Před 6 lety

    this is the most beautiful talk i have ever watch

  • @sufian2k6
    @sufian2k6 Před 13 lety +2

    How can ANYONE dislike this?? Where did the 14 dislikes come from?? 14 people who have a phobia of water!

  • @MISTERsimplelogic
    @MISTERsimplelogic Před 10 lety

    Let me share why I think this is highly important:
    An atom behave in 1 way when it`s alone, however it behaves completely different when around some more atoms...
    So, a person my have a pattern of behavior when alone, or in a small group (and that has been researched a lot) however the influence of huge groups on behavior is something that might reveal in new patterns, different than what we know in the small scale, only with social internet info, we can examine this... remarkable !

  • @KingWak
    @KingWak Před 13 lety

    great speech. and great visualized.
    finally true sience back on TED
    really a idea worth spreading.

  • @MrZeus7
    @MrZeus7 Před 13 lety

    @xjustamem0ryx Not really a coincidence, just the nature of the data. The first graph was based on where the baby was, and in general areas it gradually curved upward or downward. In the second graph, their position doesn't mean anything. I'm sure they could put it in a way so that it looks similar to the sloping of the first graph. For that they'd probably have to make each "stack" the same area (i.e., not based on how long the tv show or whatever is).

  • @megannyang
    @megannyang Před 5 lety +3

    IM NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING!!

  • @avedic
    @avedic Před 11 lety

    One of the coolest talks I've ever seen. Wow indeed...

  • @XxDollarBill
    @XxDollarBill Před 13 lety

    TED TALK OF THE YEAR BY FAR...

  • @goronska
    @goronska Před 11 lety

    I personally stood up and clapped in front of my computer. Chapeau bas, Mr. Roy!

  • @Livelovelifeeleni
    @Livelovelifeeleni Před 8 lety +1

    the miracle of life is truly beautiful

  • @BionicDance
    @BionicDance Před 13 lety

    This would be worth it just for the 3D fly-through of the house, but the language part is pretty awesome!
    TED FTW! :)

  • @Degotelo
    @Degotelo Před 13 lety +3

    That was amazing.

  • @tm1729
    @tm1729 Před 13 lety

    this is called original research. what a commitment!

  • @rock3tcatU233
    @rock3tcatU233 Před 13 lety

    Finally a great talk from TED on an interesting subject in a long time...

  • @Sabu632
    @Sabu632 Před 13 lety

    absolutely profound and will change the world forever.

  • @mariamaldawoud3478
    @mariamaldawoud3478 Před 3 lety

    fantastic talk and influential i like the concept of the video and the way he talks and convince us with the idea and i think we must really apply this in reality.

  • @ampianoman24
    @ampianoman24 Před 13 lety

    without a doubt among the most incredible things i have ever seen.

  • @DayTripperEqualsHomo
    @DayTripperEqualsHomo Před 13 lety +1

    Is anyone elses youtube being all stuttery like the video jumping and looping :S

  • @mayracorazon
    @mayracorazon Před 3 lety

    The moment the child is saying Gaga
    😍🥰😭🙌🏽

  • @manojch87
    @manojch87 Před 13 lety +1

    @hmspinaforethisisspa
    he said he recorded 8 hr/day if u listen carefully once agaun u can hear it

  • @eagleeye1975
    @eagleeye1975 Před 13 lety +1

    BEST TED TALK EVER!!!!!

  • @saquibali4090
    @saquibali4090 Před 4 lety +2

    Twitter bought bluefin labs after watching this episode

  • @ngarcia257
    @ngarcia257 Před 13 lety

    Wow! Mind-blowing! Love TED! Keep on!

  • @roidroid
    @roidroid Před 13 lety +1

    @Bc2astThese little sociology experiments like this are just to help us understand more about ourselves.
    It's interesting, for us anyway.
    it doesn't effect you personally in any way. Well other than the fact that people around you who are learning things from this are going to be getting smarter. No biggy.

  • @elchafa337
    @elchafa337 Před 13 lety +1

    I didn't really get the point he was trying to express with this talk, anyone care to explain it in a few words for me please?

  • @TheFartoholic
    @TheFartoholic Před 13 lety

    Finally an idea worth spreading.

  • @Chairman0Mao
    @Chairman0Mao Před 12 lety

    I think this is interesting, because as an English speaker in Japan I find myself breaking my own language in order to communicate with people who are eager to speak english but use it as a second language.

  • @marvinhacutina6491
    @marvinhacutina6491 Před 3 lety

    Thank you for this video

  • @michaeltolsma7717
    @michaeltolsma7717 Před 2 lety

    4:42 gaga to water.

  • @BrianMcInnis87
    @BrianMcInnis87 Před 9 lety +2

    It'll be so adorable to see the moment when Deb learns how to use the word 'data'.

  • @TheScienceFoundation
    @TheScienceFoundation Před 13 lety

    The magic starts at 4:55

  • @avedic
    @avedic Před 11 lety

    The subtitles aren't made by anyone. they analyze raw audio data and convert it to text. pretty fucking powerful if you think about it. yes, it is quite buggy and no where near perfect. But, in 5 years, it will be perfect. And 5 years ago, wasn't even a possibility. So...quit complaining. :P

  • @Creatiopoetic
    @Creatiopoetic Před 13 lety

    great lecture on a very interesting topic

  • @rhymes116
    @rhymes116 Před 13 lety

    this man is brilliant.

  • @akeemtaiwo
    @akeemtaiwo Před 13 lety +1

    I love data but its never been so beautiful until now!

  • @ma.evelynreyes2788
    @ma.evelynreyes2788 Před 3 lety

    indeed, a baby or a toddler gives birth to a word through the utterances of the first people around him/her.

  • @vinniechan
    @vinniechan Před 13 lety

    A very very elaborated way of doing experiment: :)

  • @usman3437
    @usman3437 Před 4 lety

    It is less about the birth of a word but how words can be used as "keywords" through social or channel medias making people a mindset about certain things and this and that you know the stuff. This is about data analysis and how social media or the authority can provide a feasible context to an individual for certain things sure.

  • @oshinsr
    @oshinsr Před 13 lety

    Holy crap, that's some complicated research!

  • @TheForce74
    @TheForce74 Před 11 lety +1

    Now combine this technology with 'Prism' and 'Tempora' and you know, NSA, GCHQ, etc. know, that I just wrote this and they have the capabilities to never forget and work with it.

  • @ozzylanas240
    @ozzylanas240 Před 10 lety

    Truly interesting to watch.

  • @AntonSlizzardhands
    @AntonSlizzardhands Před 13 lety

    I got a feelin somebody's watching me...

  • @Bryonato
    @Bryonato Před 13 lety

    truly amazing

  • @Trazynn
    @Trazynn Před 13 lety

    "Hi NASA I'm Deb Roy, a MIT researcher, can I borrow your computers for a moment, I want to do something actually useful with it"

  • @ummemaria531
    @ummemaria531 Před 4 lety

    wow that is really amazing ted

  • @onlinesaurav
    @onlinesaurav Před 11 lety +3

    this is the FUTURE!!!!!!!!

  • @kb3239
    @kb3239 Před 11 lety +1

    WINNING.

  • @pahzcherelin3286
    @pahzcherelin3286 Před 7 lety +7

    This fool got possessed at 6:30 😂😂😂

  • @hammertownwins9554
    @hammertownwins9554 Před 10 lety

    That's so powerful.

  • @Quisyfrottesypique
    @Quisyfrottesypique Před 13 lety

    4: 20, 17:20, 18:08. Wow!

  • @DuttonWebb
    @DuttonWebb Před 13 lety

    he said vertical twice

  • @luismigueljimenezjr7167
    @luismigueljimenezjr7167 Před 11 lety +1

    I thought i was having a seizure lol

  • @Dragonkickn
    @Dragonkickn Před 13 lety

    "wow".

  • @abinshakshaji6101
    @abinshakshaji6101 Před 4 lety +1

    Can someone summarize this for me.
    I didn't got understand what he was trying to say. Pardon my language problem