8 May 2024: AI and rational agency (Jan Sleutels)
Reading:
- Coupland, D. (2016), Machines Will Make Better Choices than Humans. Rotterdam: V2_Publishing. [Three short stories, 25 pages.]
- Kapadia, A. (2020), All that is solid melts into code. Review of Shoshana Zuboff, The age of Surveillance capitalism. Economy and Society 49(2), pp. 329-344.
- Weinberger, D. (2019), The Metaphysics of Machine Learning. People + AI Research Symposium (Dec. 9, 2019), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS9sIDHD0k8
Additional (optional) reading:
- Haugeland, J., Craver, J.F., & Klein, C., Eds. (2023), Mind Design III: Philosophy, Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Crawford, K. (2021), Atlas of AI. Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. New Haven: Yale University Press.
15 May 2024: LLMs, Knowledge, and (Scientific) Understanding
(Victor Gijsbers)
Reading:
- Bender & Koller, “Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data”
- Yldirim & Paul, “From task structures to world models: What do LLMs know?”
- Leslie, “Does the sun rise for ChatGPT? Scientific discovery in the age of generative AI”, AI and Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-023-00315-3
- Barman, Caron, Claassen & De Regt, “Towards a Benchmark for Scientific Understanding in Humans and Machines.”