Ethics in AI Lunchtime Research Seminars - Large Language Models: Tools or Colleagues?
AI assistants have entered various spheres of activity including education, work life and personal life. The extensive linguistic capacities of these systems lead many to treat them as helpful partners enabling them to find out more, perform intellectual tasks and at time to explore their emotions. But should we treat them as human-like agents or human usable tools? The answer depends on whether we should include them in the linguistic community as fully fledged linguistic agents. Whether we should or not depends on the correct characterization of what they do, on whether they use and understand a language. I will consider what it would take for them to do so.
Date: 23 October 2024, 12:30 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2024)
Venue: Please register to receive venue details
Speaker: Professor Barry Smith (University of London)
Organiser contact email address: aiethicsevents@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Hosts: Dr David Storrs-Fox (Philosophy, Oxford), Professor John Tasioulas (University of Oxford)
Part of: Ethics in AI Lunchtime Seminars
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/ethics-ai-lunchtime-research-seminars-large-language-models-tools-or-colleagues
Booking email: aiethicsevents@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editors: Marie Watson, Lauren Czerniawska