Date: February 14, 2025 (Friday) Time: 13:00 – 18:00 Venue: 11/F, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, The University of Hong Kong Registration: here Iason Gabriel, Staff Research Scientist, Google Deepmind Geoffrey Keeling, Senior Research Scientist, Google
Abstract: Maybe AIs have alien contents and we need a fundamentally different kind ofmetasemantics for AI systems than we do for humans. The aim is to explore a cluster of closely related topics: (i) What would it be for a system to have alien (non-human) contents and howcould we recognize these as contents? (ii) What …
Date: November 22, 2024 (Friday) Time: 13:00 – 15:00 Venue: Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Registration: here Speaker: Ms Sarah Jeong, Journalist Chair: Dr Frank Hong, The University of Hong Kong Abstract: Generative AI is now a ubiquitous feature of consumer electronics, incorporated even into smartphone photography. As photographs and other forms of …
Abstract: The speaker will distinguish some different conceptions of alignment, exploring how each conception relates to safety and existential risk.
Abstract: Central to the inquiry of cognitive science is the idea of agents for whom there is the possibility of both success and failure. If we think that LLMs are the sort of thing that fall within the domain of cognitive science, then we should also ask whether they are agents of this kind – …
Date: December 4, 2024 (Wednesday) Time: 13:00 – 15:00 Venue: G/F, Seminar Room, HKU Main Library Registration: here Speaker: Dr Henry Shevlin, University of Cambridge Chair: Dr Frank Hong, The University of Hong Kong Abstract: Recent rapid progress in artificial intelligence has prompted renewed interest in the possibility of consciousness in artificial systems. This talk argues that this question forces …
Date: December 6, 2024 (Friday) Time: 13:00 – 15:00 Venue: 2/F, MPA, HKU Main Library Registration: here Speaker: Dr Karina Vold, University of Toronto Chair: Dr Frank Hong, The University of Hong Kong Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly able to outperform humans at specific tasks, such as beating world champions at Go and solving 50-year-old grand challenges in …
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Abstract: Since the 1960s, philosophers have seriously considered the possibility that psychological states could be multiply realizable in not only in humans and other terrestrial creatures, but also in potential alien and artificial cognizers. For many it has become an accepted constraint on our theories of the nature of perception and cognition that they would …
Abstract: Since the 1960s, philosophers have seriously considered the possibility that psychological states could be multiply realizable in not only in humans and other terrestrial creatures, but also in potential alien and artificial cognizers. For many it has become an accepted constraint on our theories of the nature of perception and cognition that they would …