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 (Thursday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2024)
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