Coding and the new Human Phenotype: Are Natural Language Generators for Real?

October 16, 2022 at 11:00am EST
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The program GPT-3 can create language that gives the impression that it is thinking. What will our interaction with robots of greater and greater verbal agility mean in the near future? What sort of Other will these robots become, evolve to? Is awareness of a code incompatible with any form of realism, and what does... read more! »

The program GPT-3 can create language that gives the impression that it is thinking. What will our interaction with robots of greater and greater verbal agility mean in the near future? What sort of Other will these robots become, evolve to? Is awareness of a code incompatible with any form of realism, and what does this mean for epistemology and ethics?

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Ned Block

Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science, New York University

Ned Block (Ph.D., Harvard), Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science, came to NYU in 1996 from MIT where he was Chair of the Philosophy Program. He works in philosophy of mind and foundations of neuroscience and cognitive science, and is currently writing a book on attention. He is a Fellow of the American... read more! »

Kyunghyun Cho

Associate Professor, Computer Science & Data Science, New York University
CIFAR Fellow, Learning in Machines & Brains

Kyunghyun Cho is an associate professor of computer science and data science at New York University and CIFAR Fellow of Learning in Machines & Brains. He is also a senior director of frontier research at the Prescient Design team within Genentech Research & Early Development (gRED). He was a research scientist at Facebook AI Research... read more! »

Katherine Elkins

Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature
Director of The Integrated Program in Humane Studies
Founding Co-Director KDH Lab
Kenyon College

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Katherine Elkins is Professor of Humanities and faculty in Computing at Kenyon College, where she teaches in the Integrated Program in Humane Studies. She writes about the age-old conversation between philosophy and literature as well as the more recent conversation about AI, language and art. Recent books include The Shapes of Stories with Cambridge University Press, which... read more! »

Noah Giansiracusa

Assistant Professor, Mathematics & Data Science, Bentley University

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Noah Giansiracusa (PhD in math from Brown University) is an assistant professor of mathematics and data science at Bentley University. Noah’s research interests include algebraic geometry (the abstract study of systems of polynomial equations and their solutions), machine learning (especially topological and geometric data analysis), artificial intelligence, empirical legal studies, phylogenetics, and misinformation. Noah is... read more! »

Francesca Rossi

IBM Fellow & IBM AI Ethics Global Leader

Francesca Rossi is an IBM Fellow and the IBM AI Ethics Global Leader. She is based at the T.J. Watson IBM Research Lab, New York, USA, where she leads AI research projects. She co-chairs the IBM AI Ethics board and she participates in many global multi-stakeholder initiatives on AI ethics, such as the Partnership on... read more! »

Dennis Yi Tenen

Associate Professor, English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Dennis Yi Tenen is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His teaching and research happen at the intersection of people, texts, and technologies. A long-time affiliate of Columbia’s Data Science Institute and formerly a Microsoft engineer and a Berkman Center for Internet and Society Fellow, his code runs on millions... read more! »