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

Session

The computer science underlying large language models

Jul 21, 2023, 9:00 AM

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)

7/21/23, 9:00 AM

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

Prof. Yann LeCun (NYU/Meta)

7/21/23, 9:05 AM

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

Prof. Peter Szolovits (MIT)

7/21/23, 10:00 AM

22. Language Models as World Models?

Prof. Jacob Andreas (MIT)

7/21/23, 10:15 AM

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

Dr Siddharth Mishra-Sharma (MIT/IAIFI)

7/21/23, 10:45 AM

26. The Quantization Model of Neural Scaling

Eric Michaud (MIT)

7/21/23, 11:00 AM

23. Keeping AI under control through mechanistic interpretability

Prof. Max Tegmark (MIT)

7/21/23, 11:15 AM

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

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

7/21/23, 11:30 AM