BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//208.94.116.123//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-FROM-URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7909@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T074710Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://phildeeplearning.github.io/ DESCRIPTION:A two-day conference on the philosophy of deep learning\, organ ized by Ned Block (New York University)\, David Chalmers (New York Univers ity) and Raphaël Millière (Columbia University)\, and jointly sponsored by the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience program at Columbia University and the Center for Mind\, Brain\, and Consciousness at New Yor k University.\nAbout\nThe conference will explore current issues in AI res earch from a philosophical perspective\, with particular attention to rece nt work on deep artificial neural networks. The goal is to bring together philosophers and scientists who are thinking about these systems in order to gain a better understanding of their capacities\, their limitations\, a nd their relationship to human cognition.\nThe conference will focus espec ially on topics in the philosophy of cognitive science (rather than on top ics in AI ethics and safety). It will explore questions such as:\n\nWhat c ognitive capacities\, if any\, do current deep learning systems possess?\n What cognitive capacities might future deep learning systems possess?\nWha t kind of representations can we ascribe to artificial neural networks?\nC ould a large language model genuinely understand language?\nWhat do deep l earning systems tell us about human cognition\, and vice versa?\nHow can w e develop a theoretical understanding of deep learning systems?\nHow do de ep learning systems bear on philosophical debates such as rationalism vs e mpiricism and classical vs. nonclassical views of cognition.\nWhat are the key obstacles on the path from current deep learning systems to human-lev el cognition?\n\nA pre-conference debate on Friday\, March 24th will tackl e the question “Do large language models need sensory grounding for meanin g and understanding ?”. Speakers include Jacob Browning (New York Universi ty)\, David Chalmers (New York University)\, Yann LeCun (New York Universi ty)\, and Ellie Pavlick (Brown University / Google AI).\nConference speake rs\n\nCameron Buckner (University of Houston)\nRosa Cao (Stanford Universi ty)\nIshita Dasgupta (DeepMind)\nNikolaus Kriegeskorte (Columbia Universit y)\nBrenden Lake (New York University / Meta AI)\nGrace Lindsay (New York University)\nTal Linzen (New York University / Google AI)\nRaphaël Millièr e (Columbia University)\nNicholas Shea (Institute of Philosophy\, Universi ty of London)\n\nCall for abstracts\nWe invite abstract submissions for a few short talks and poster presentations related to the topic of the confe rence. Submissions from graduate students and early career researchers are particularly encouraged. Please send a title and abstract (500-750 words) to phildeeplearning@gmail.com by January 22nd\, 2023 (11.59pm EST).\n \nh ttps://philevents.org/event/show/106406\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.c om/e/philosophy-of-deep-learning-conference-tickets-453924730087. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230325 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230327 GEO:+40.729513;-73.996461 LOCATION:Center for Mind\, Brain\, and Consciousness @ New York\, NY 10012\ , USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Philosophy of Deep Learning URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-philosophy-of-deep-l earning/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nA two-day con ference on the philosophy of deep learning\, organized by Ned Block (New York University)\, David Chalmers (New York University) and Raphaël Millière (Columbia Uni versity)\, and jointly sponsored by the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscien ce program at Columbia University and the Center for Mind\, Brain\, a nd Consciousness at New York University.
\nThe conference will explore current issues in AI research from a phi losophical perspective\, with particular attention to recent work on deep artificial neural networks. The goal is to bring together philosophers and scientists who are thinking about these systems in order to gain a better understanding of their capacities\, their limitations\, and their relatio nship to human cognition.
\nThe conference will focus especially on topics in the philosophy of cognitive science (rather than on topics in AI ethics and safety). It will explore questions such as:
\nA pre-conference debate on Friday\, March 24th will tackle the question “Do large language models need sensory grounding for m eaning and understanding ?”. Speakers include Jacob Browni ng (New York University)\, David Chalmers (New York University)\, Yann LeCun (New York University)\, and Ellie Pavlick (Brown U niversity / Google AI).
\nWe i nvite abstract submissions for a few short talks and poster presentations related to the topic of the conference. Submissions from graduate students and early career researchers are particularly encouraged. Please send a title and abstract (500-750 words) to phildeeplearning@gmail.com a> by January 22nd\, 2023 (11.59pm EST).
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https: //philevents.org/event/show/106406
\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/philosop hy-of-deep-learning-conference-tickets-453924730087.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,cfa\,cognitive science\,conf erence\,language\,mind X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/philosophy-of-deep-learning-conf erence-tickets-453924730087 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7640@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T074710Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://nylanguageworkshop.tumblr.com/ DESCRIPTION:We’re a community of philosophers of language centered in New Y ork City. We have a meeting each week at which a speaker presents a piece of their own work relating to the philosophy of language.\nDuring Spring 2 020\, we’ll meet online on Mondays from 3pm until 5pm (Eastern Time). Deta ils and zoom links will be posted on this site. Anyone with an interest in philosophy of language is welcome!\n\n\nSeptember 20th (special time: 4:3 0–6pm)\nDiego Feinmann (ENS\, Jean Nicod\, Paris)\nSeptember 27th\nTBD\nO ctober 4th\nNajoung Kim (Jonhs Hopkins)\nOctober 18th\nCian Dorr (NYU)\nOc tober 25th\nZoltán Szabó (Yale)\nNovember 1st (special time: 4:30–6pm)\nRi chard Moore (Warwick)\nNovember 8th\nYimei Xiang (Rutgers)\nNovember 15th \nTBD\nNovember 22nd\nRyan Nefdt (Cape Town)\nNovember 29th\nTBD\nDecember 6th\nTBD\nDecember 13th\nKit Fine (NYU) DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210920T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210920T170000 LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20210927T150000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211004T150000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211018T150000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211025T150000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211101T150000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211108T150000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211115T150000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211122T150000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211129T150000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211206T150000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211213T150000 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The New York Philosophy of Language Workshop URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-new-york-philosophy- of-language-workshop/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nDuring Spring 2020\, we’ll meet online on Mondays from 3pm until 5pm (Eastern Time). De tails and zoom links will be posted on this site. Anyone with an interest in philosophy of language is welcome!
September 20th (special time: 4:30–6pm)
\nDiego Feinmann (ENS\, Jean Nicod\, Paris)<
/p>\n
September 27th
\nTBD
October 4th
\nNajoung Kim (Jonhs Hopkins)
October
18th
\nCian Dorr (NYU)
October 25th
\nZoltán Szabó (Yale)
November 1st (special time: 4:30–6pm)\nRichard Moore (Warwick)
\nNovember 8th
\nYimei Xian
g (Rutgers)
November 15th
\nTBD
November 22nd
\nRyan Nefdt (Cape Town)
November 29th
\nTBD
December 6th
\nTBD
Dece
mber 13th
\nKit Fine (NYU)
During Fall 2 022\, we will meet on Mondays from 5:30 until 7:30 in room 302 of NYU’s Ph ilosophy Building\, at 5 Washington Place. Our schedule of speakers is bel ow.
\nRSVP Requirement: If you do not have an NYU ID\, you wi ll have to RSVP at least a week before the first workshop that you attend. You will then receive email instructions for uploading your proof of vacc ination. We have made a single RSVP form where you can RSVP for all of the seme ster’s workshops at once\, or for as many as you think you might attend. ( Hopefully you will also only have to upload your proof of vaccination once \, but we’re not sure.) So\, if you don’t have an NYU ID\, you can RSVP now!
\nSeptember 19
\nTal Linzen (NYU)
Octob
er 3
\nNatasha Korotkova (Utrecht)
October 10
\nCraige Roberts
(OSU)
October 17
\nJustin Khoo (MIT)
October 24
\nJosh Knobe (Yal
e)
November 7
\nSadhwi Srinivas (William & Mary)
November 14
\nElm
ar Unnsteinsson (UC Dublin and Iceland)
November 21
\nRobert Staln
aker (MIT)
November 28
\nJonathan Phillips (Dartmouth)
Dec
ember 5
\nAndrés Soria Ruiz (Lisbon Nova)
December 12
\nGretchen E
llefson (Southern Utah)
The NYU Mind\, Ethics\, and Policy Program is thrilled t o be hosting a talk by David Chalmers on whether large language models can be sentient.
\nAbout the talk
\nArtificial in
telligence systems—especially large language models\, giant neural network
s trained to predict text from the internet—have recently shown remarkable
abilities. There has been widespread discussion of whether some of these
language models might be sentient. Should we take this idea seriously? Dav
id Chalmers will discuss the underlying issue and try to break down the st
rongest reasons for and against.
Th e talk\, which is free and open to the public\, will take place on October 13 2022 from 5:00-6:30pm ET. The in-person location will be Jurow Lecture Hall (inside the Silver Center at 32 Waverly Place)\, and the virtual loc ation will be Zoom (you can sign up to receive a link by clicking “Registe r here” below). There will also be a light reception from 6:30-7:30pm in t he Silverstein Lounge (immediately outside of the Jurow Lecture Hall).
\n– If you plan to attend in person\, pl
ease be prepared to show proof of full vaccination.
\n– If you plan t
o attend virtually\, please check your email for a link in advance of the
event.
About the speaker
\nDavid Chalmers is
University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and co-director of
the Center for Mind\, Brain\, and Consciousness at NYU. He is the author o
f The Conscious Mind (1996)\, Constructing the World (2010)\, and Reality+
: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy (2022). He co-founded the
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and the PhilPapers F
oundation. He is known for formulating the “hard problem” of consciousness
\, which inspired Tom Stoppard’s play The Hard Problem\, and for the idea
of the “extended mind\,” which says that the tools we use can become parts
of our minds.
Thank you to our co-sponsors for your generous support of this event:
\nNYU Center for Bioethics
\nNYU Center for Mind\, Brain\, and Consciousness
\nNYU Minds\, Brains\, and Machines Initiative
\nWe’re a community of philosophers of language centered in New Y ork City. We have a meeting each week at which a speaker presents a piece of their own work relating to the philosophy of language.
\nDuring S pring 2023\, we will meet on Mondays\, 6-8pm in room 202 of the NYU Philos ophy Building\, at 5 Washington Place. Anyone with an interest in philosop hy of language is welcome.
\nFebruary 6
\nAilís Courna
ne (NYU)
February 13
\nBianca Cepollaro (University Vita-Salu
te San Raffaele)
February 27
\nJanek Guerrini (Institut Jean Nicod\, EN
S)
March 6
\nDan Hoek (V
irginia Tech)
March 20
\nMatt Moss (Vassar)
March 27
\nWill Merrill (NYU)
April 3
\nDevin Morse
a> (Columbia)
April 10
\nFlorian Schwarz (Penn)
April 17
\nAndrea Iacona (Turin)
April 24
\nTyler Knowlton (Penn)
Ma
y 1
\nAndy Egan (Rutgers)
May 8
\nPrerna Nadathur (OSU)
RSVP: If you don’t have an NYU ID\, and if you have n’t RSVPed for a workshop yet during this academic year\, please RSVP no l ater than 10am on the day of the talk by emailing your name\, em ail address\, and phone number to Jack Mikuszewski at jhm378@nyu.edu no later than 10am on the mornin g of the talk. This is required by NYU in order to access the building. Wh en you arrive\, please be prepared to show proof of vaccination and booste rs at the request of the security guard.
\nOur speaker on Monday\, February 13th will be Bianca C epollaro\, who is a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Philosophy in Un iversity Vita-Salute San Raffaele. Bianca will give a talk called ‘(Not Ne cessarily Credible) Deniability’:
\nDinges and Zakkou’s 2022 analyze deniability as an epistemic notion. For them\, a speaker has deniability with respect to the proposition that they meant something just in case their audience does not know what they meant\, possibly thanks to their denial. In this paper\, we illustrate two kinds of cases that chall enge their account\, in order to argue that deniability cannot be so under stood. The first kind of scenario shows how their epistemic understanding of deniability does not provide sufficient conditions for deniability\; th e second one suggests that their conditions are not necessary either. Our goal here is entirely negative: we aim to do a ground-clearing job\, provi ding reasons why deniability cannot be understood in certain ways\, and le ave the articulation of an alternative proposal for future work.
\nWe’re a community of philosophers of language centered in New York City. We have a meeting each week at which a speaker presents a piece of their own work relating to the philosophy of language.
\nDuring Spring 2023\, we will meet on Mondays\, 6-8pm in room 202 of the NYU Philo sophy Building\, at 5 Washington Place. Anyone with an interest in philoso phy of language is welcome.
\n
February 6
\nAilís Courn
ane (NYU)
February 13
\nBianca Cepollaro (University Vita-Sal
ute San Raffaele)
February 27
\nJanek Guerrini (Institut Jean Nicod\, E
NS)
March 6
\nDan Hoek (
Virginia Tech)
March 20
\nMatt Moss (Vassar)
March 27
\nWill Merrill (NYU)
April 3
\nDevin Morse<
/a> (Columbia)
April 10
\nFlorian Schwarz (Penn)
April 17
\nAndrea Iacona (Turin)
April 24
\nTyler Knowlton (Penn)
M
ay 1
\nAndy Egan (Rutgers)
May 8
\nPrerna Nadathur (OSU)
RSVP: If you don’t have an NYU ID\, and if you have n’t RSVPed for a workshop yet during this academic year\, please RSVP no l ater than 10am on the day of the talk by emailing your name\, em ail address\, and phone number to Jack Mikuszewski at jhm378@nyu.edu no later than 10am on the mornin g of the talk. This is required by NYU in order to access the building. Wh en you arrive\, please be prepared to show proof of vaccination and booste rs at the request of the security guard.
\nWe’re a community of philosophers of language centered in New Y ork City. We have a meeting each week at which a speaker presents a piece of their own work relating to the philosophy of language.
\nDuring F all 2023\, we will meet on Mondays\, 5:00–7:00pm in room 103 of the NYU Li nguistics Building (10 Washington Place). Anyone with an interest in philo sophy of language is welcome.
\nSeptember 11
\nKate Ritchie (UC Irvine)
September 18
\n(no workshop)
September 25
\n(no workshop)
October 2
\nGiorgio Sbardolini (ILLC\, Amsterdam)<
/p>\n
October 9
\nSoeren Knud
storp (ILLC\, Amsterdam)
October 16
\nMaria Aloni (ILLC\, Amsterdam)
October 23
\nPaula Rubio Fernandez (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics\, N
ijmegen)
October 30
\nDanny Fox (MIT)
November 6
\nSimon Charlow (Rutgers)
November 13
\nKevin Richardson (Duke)
November 20
\nLilia Riss
man (Rochester)
November 27
\nKaren Lewis (Columbia)
December 4
\nGuillermo Del Pinal (UMa
ss Amherst)
December 11
\nHenry Schiller (Sheffield/Pitt)
We’re a commu nity of philosophers of language centered in New York City. We have a meet ing each week at which a speaker presents a piece of their own work relati ng to the philosophy of language.
\nDuring Spring 2024\, we will mee t on Mondays\, 5:30–7:30pm in room 202 of the NYU Philosophy Building (5 W ashington Place). Anyone with an interest in philosophy of language is wel come.
\nRSVP: If you don’t have an NYU ID\, and if you haven’ t RSVPed for a workshop yet during this academic year\, please RSVP no lat er than 10am on the day of the talk by emailing your name\, emai l address\, and phone number to Jack Mikuszewski at jhm378@nyu.edu. This is required by NYU in order to acc ess the building. When you arrive\, please be prepared to show government ID to the security guard.
\nJanuary 22nd
\nRo
se Ryan Flinn (NYU)
January 29th
\nZeynep Soysal (Rochester)
February 5th
\nKaren Lewis (Barnard/Colu
mbia)
February 12th
\nWillow Starr (Cornell)
February 19th
\n(No
workshop)
February 26th
\nJeremy Goodman (Johns Hopkins)
March 4th
\nJulian Jara-Ettinger
(Yale)
March 11th
\nJames Walsh (NYU)
March 18th
\n(no workshop
)
March 25th
\nCal Howland
(Rutgers)
April 1st
\n(no workshop)
April 8th
\nSam Cumming (UCLA)
April 15th
\nEno Agolli (Rutgers)
April 22md
\n(no workshop)
April 29th
\nViola Schmitt (Humbolt Univers
ity Berlin/MIT)
May 6th
\nBob Beddor (Florida)
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