The Linguistic and Cognitive Capacities of LLMs September 20, 2024 January 10, 2025 / Past Event Date: December 9-10, 2024 (Monday, Tuesday)Organizers: AIH Lab and IDEAS-IDS Alien Contents and Alien Metasemantics (with Prof Joshua Dever) Prof Herman Cappelen, The University of Hong Kong Prof Joshua Dever, The University of Texas at Austin Aliens, Octopuses, and Robots, AgainProf Lawrence Shapiro, University of Wisconsin-Madison Aliens, Octopuses, and Robots, AgainProf Thomas Polger, University of Cincinnati Why ChatGPT Doesn’t Think: An Argument from Rationality (Co-authored with Zhihe Vincent Zhang, ANU)Prof Daniel Stoljar, Australian National University Evaluating LLM Ethical CompetenceProf Seth Lazar, Australian National University AlignmentProf John Hawthorne, University of Southern California LLMs Can Never Be Ideally RationalDr Simon Goldstein, The University of Hong Kong Does anything matter to an LLM?Dr Rosa Cao, Stanford University What remains of the singularity hypothesis?Dr Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini, Rutgers University-Newark
