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Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence & Cog Science @Macquarie_Uni Past @Columbia @UniofOxford Also on other platforms Blog: https://t.co/2hJjfShFfr

Mar 24, 2023, 13 tweets

Yann LeCun kicking off the debate with a bold prediction: nobody in their right mind will use autoregressive models 5 years from now #phildeeplearning

@ylecun closing his presentation with some conjectures #phildeeplearning

Ellie Pavlick @BrownCSDept leading the charge on the "No" side!

Ellie's conclusions #phildeeplearning

@LakeBrenden opts instead for a qualified "yes" on the general question, and a strong "yes" on the more specific question – Do LLMs need sensory grounding to understand words as people do?

Next up: @davidchalmers42 starting his talk on the "Yes" side with a bit of philosophical history about the grounding problem

Dave's answer: "No, but – it's complicated" #phildeeplearning

Next, @Jake_Browning00 also starting off with a bit of history #phildeeplearning

Our final speaker before the discussion: @glupyan starting with the results of his recent survey #phildeeplearning

Conclusion slide from @glupyan

And now for the discussion! Let's find out if out speakers can meet somewhere in the middle #phildeeplearning

Correction: that was of course the "No" side (as in: LLMs don't need sensory grounding for understanding)

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