Talk by Joshua F. Dienstag, University of Wisconsin-Madison. This talk addresses the challenge that talking machines pose to traditional conceptions of the human is profound. If language activity is crucial to human status, then why should we not include talking machines in our community? What are our grounds for distinguishing computer-generated language from human language?
Livescu Faculty Seminars where faculty meets to discuss specific topics about the latest research and developments in the field of AI, neuroscience, and sociology, among others. During Fall 2024 quarter we had five meetings with several guests.
Talk by Matthew Jones and Chris Wiggins, authors of “How Data Happened”.
We are collaborating with Shazeda Ahmed (Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA Center on Race and Digital Justice) to organize a series of seminars around the applications of AI to both studying AI as an object of inquiry and discerning the inherent trade-offs in uses of machine learning in research.
