The impact of chatGPT and other large language models on physics research and education

Session

The computer science underlying large language models

21 Jul 2023, 09:00

32-123 (MIT)

Conveners

The computer science underlying large language models

• Kevin Burdge (MIT)

Description

This session will focus on a discussion of the computer science underlying large language models.

Contribution list Timetable

27. Introductory remarks

Dr Kevin Burdge (MIT)

21/07/2023, 09:00

1. Keynote address: Towards Machines that can Learn, Reason, and Plan (remote)

Prof. Yann LeCun (NYU/Meta)

21/07/2023, 09:05

2. Generative AI gives some spectacular demonstrations, but I don’t know how!

Prof. Peter Szolovits (MIT)

21/07/2023, 10:00

22. Language Models as World Models?

Prof. Jacob Andreas (MIT)

21/07/2023, 10:15

4. Some experiments with LLMs, or why the world you were raised to survive in no longer exists

Dr Siddharth Mishra-Sharma (MIT/IAIFI)

21/07/2023, 10:45

26. The Quantization Model of Neural Scaling

Eric Michaud (MIT)

21/07/2023, 11:00

23. Keeping AI under control through mechanistic interpretability

Prof. Max Tegmark (MIT)

21/07/2023, 11:15

6. Open discussion on broader societal impacts of LLMs, and implications for physics majors

Dr Kevin Burdge (MIT), Dr Joshua Borrow (MIT)

21/07/2023, 11:30