ISC 2024 Summer School- Chatting Minds: The science and stakes of Large Language Models
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For summer 2024, the Institute of Cognitive Sciences intends to address the theme of large language models (LLMs). LLMs are artificial intelligence systems based on deep learning and trained on massive linguistic datasets taken from large corpora of varied texts from the Internet and other sources. They are designed to manipulate natural languages in a way that enables them to converse naturally with human beings, answering their questions or receiving instructions from them. With the many foreseeable improvements in technology, their current capabilities will only improve and expand. Since the public deployment of these systems is quite recent (October 2022 for the first ChatGPT), their media coverage has been intense, and they raise important scientific, ethical and social questions. We believe that a summer school will be of interest to students and researchers from many fields here at UQÀM as well as around the world.
The summer school will examine major language models from four perspectives (some more profound than others):
1) The technical basis on which LLMs are developed
2) What LLMs teach us about human cognition and language
3) What ethical issues LLMs raise, and finally
4) What are the educational, economic, social and political consequences of their large-scale deployment.
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