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Jacob Andreas
EECS and CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Good Old-Fashioned LLMs (or, Autoformalizing the World)
Abstract: Classical formal approaches to artificial intelligence, based on manipulation of symbolic structures, have a number of appealing properties---they generalize (and fail) in predictable ways, provide interpretable traces of behavior, and can be formally verified or manually audited for correctness. Why are they so rarely used in the modern era? One of the major challenges […]
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RI Seminar
Ken Goldberg
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Unfamiliar Intelligence: Art, AI, and Robots
Abstract: Shortly after the 1918 pandemic, the word "robot" was coined in a play about mechanical workers organizing a rebellion to defeat their human overlords. A century later, emerging advances in Artificial Intelligence and robotics, fueled by venture capital and governments, are disrupting labor, trade, and political stability. Claims about “superintelligence” and existential threats to [...]
