March 24, 2023: Debate, Do language models need sensory grounding for meaning and understanding?

March 25-26, 2023: Conference, The Philosophy of Deep Learning
The Center is co-sponsoring a debate on large language models, followed by a two-day conference on the philosophy of deep learning.

All the talks from this event can be watched on YouTube here.

Speakers will include:

Yann LeCun (New York University / Meta AI), Brenden Lake (New York University), Jacob Browning (New York University), David Chalmers (New York University), Ellie Pavlick (Brown University / Google AI), Gary Lupyan (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Nuhu Osman Attah (University of Pittsburgh), Cameron Buckner (University of Houston), Patrick Butlin (University of Oxford), Rosa Cao (Stanford University), Tony Chen (MIT), Ishita Dasgupta (DeepMind), Jacqueline Harding (Stanford University), Anna Ivanova (MIT), Nikolaus Kriegeskorte (Columbia University), Brenden Lake (New York University / Meta AI), Grace Lindsay (New York University), Tal Linzen (New York University / Google AI), Robert Long (Center for AI Safety), Fintan Mallory (University of Oslo), Raphaël Millière (Columbia University), Ida Momennejad (Microsoft Research), Nicholas Shea (Institute of Philosophy, University of London), Anders Søgaard (University of Copenhagen), Philippe Verreault-Julien (Eindhoven University of Technology), Atoosa Kasirzadeh (University of Edinburgh), Wai Keen Vong (New York University), Sreejan Kumar (Princeton University), Will Merrill (New York University), Julia Minarik (University of Toronto), Jared Moore (University of Washington), Emin Orhan (New York University), Stephan Pohl (New York University), Hokyung Sung (MIT), Justin Tiehen (Puget Sound)