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Ethics in AI Colloquium with Professor Murray Shanahan - How to Think About Large Language Models
Abstract: AI systems based on large language models have become a significant cultural phenomenon. But what is the right way to think and talk about these “exotic mind-like entities”? To what extent are concepts like understanding, thinking, and consciousness relevant? In this talk I will address these questions, appealing to the concept of role-play as a way to draw on our natural fund of folk psychological concepts without falling prey to anthropomorphism.
Date:
17 October 2024, 17:00
Venue:
H B Allen Centre
Speakers:
Professor Murray Shanahan (Imperial College London),
Professor Rahul Santhanam (Computer Science, Oxford),
Dr Anita Avramides (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
aiethicsevents@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Professor John Tasioulas (University of Oxford)
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/event/institute-ethics-ai-colloquium-how-think-about-large-language-models-h-b-allen-centre-keble
Booking email:
aiethicsevents@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editors:
Marie Watson,
Lauren Czerniawska
