Coding and the New Human Phenotype: Are Natural Language Generators for Real?

October 16, 2022 (11:00AM – 1:00PM)
The program GPT-3 can create language that gives the impression that it is thinking. What will our interaction with robots of greater and greater verbal agility mean in the near future? What sort of Other will these robots become, evolve to? Is awareness of a code incompatible with any form of realism, and what does this mean for epistemology and ethics?

Participants:

Ned Block
Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science, New York University

Kyunghyun Cho
Associate Professor, Computer Science & Data Science, New York University
CIFAR Fellow, Learning in Machines & Brains

Katherine Elkins
Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature
Director of The Integrated Program in Humane Studies
Founding Co-Director KDH Lab
Kenyon College

Noah Giansiracusa
Assistant Professor, Mathematics & Data Science, Bentley University

Francesca Rossi
IBM Fellow & IBM AI Ethics Global Leader

Dennis Yi Tenen
Associate Professor, English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University