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Computer Science Distinguished Lecture: Possible Impossibilities and Impossible Possibilities
November 2, 2023 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
FreeEveryone is welcome to attend.
Speaker: Yejin Choi, University of Washington
Homepage: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~yejin/
Date/Time: Thursday, November 2nd, 2023 at 3:30 pm
Location: Fred Kaiser Building (2332 Main Mall), Room 2020/2030
Title: Possible Impossibilities and Impossible Possibilities
Abstract:
In this talk, I will question if there can be possible impossibilities of large language models (i.e., the fundamental limits of transformers, if any) and the impossible possibilities of language models (i.e., seemingly impossible alternative paths beyond scale, if at all).
Bio: Yejin Choi is Wissner-Slivka Professor and a MacArthur Fellow at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. She is also a senior director at AI2 overseeing the project Mosaic and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford. Her research investigates if (and how) AI systems can learn commonsense knowledge and reasoning, if machines can (and should) learn moral reasoning, and various other problems in NLP, AI, and Vision including neuro-symbolic integration, language grounding with vision and interactions, and AI for social good. She is a co-recipient of 2 Test of Time Awards (at ACL 2021 and ICCV 2021), 7 Best/Outstanding Paper Awards (at ACL 2023, NAACL 2022, ICML 2022, NeurIPS 2021, AAAI 2019, and ICCV 2013), the Borg Early Career Award (BECA) in 2018, the inaugural Alexa Prize Challenge in 2017, and IEEE AI’s 10 to Watch in 2016.