<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">When:    </font></font></b><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"> Monday, October 16th at <b><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">11:30 AM CT</font></b></font></font><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Where:    </b><span class="gmail_default"><b></b></span><span class="gmail_default">T</span></font></font>alk will be given <font style="font-weight:bold"><u style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">live, in-person</u></font><font style="font-weight:bold"> </font>at</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">                     TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">                     5th Floor, Room 530<b> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><b><br></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail_default"><b>Virtually:  </b>  via Panopto<b> (<a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=bbae3879-b4c4-4cb0-b9ae-b0820139b35c" target="_blank">Livestream</a>) </b></span><b><br></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit" color="#000000"><b>Who:      <span class="gmail_default"></span>  </b>Yejin Choi, University of Washington </font></font></font></p></div><div><b style=""><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></b></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b style="">Title:        </b>Possible Impossibilities and Impossible Possibilities</font></div><div><p></p><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b style="">Abstract:   </b>In this talk, I will question if there can be possible impossibilities of large language models  (i.e., the fundamental limits of transformers, if any) and the impossible possibilities of language models (i.e., seemingly impossible alternative paths beyond scale, if at all). </font></div></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border-radius:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border-radius:0px;font-weight:700">B</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border-radius:0px;font-weight:700">io:</span>    Yejin Choi is Wissner-Slivka Professor and a MacArthur Fellow at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. She is also a senior director at AI2 overseeing the project Mosaic and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford. Her research investigates if (and how) AI systems can learn commonsense knowledge and reasoning, if machines can (and should) learn moral reasoning, and various other problems in NLP, AI, and Vision including neuro-symbolic integration, language grounding with vision and interactions, and AI for social good. She is a co-recipient of 2 Test of Time Awards (at ACL 2021 and ICCV 2021), 7 Best/Outstanding Paper Awards (at ACL 2023, NAACL 2022, ICML 2022, NeurIPS 2021, AAAI 2019, and ICCV 2013), the Borg Early Career Award (BECA) in 2018, the inaugural Alexa Prize Challenge in 2017, and IEEE AI's 10 to Watch in 2016.</font></p></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border-radius:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border-radius:0px;font-weight:700">Hos</span><b><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border-radius:0px">t:<u> <a href="mailto:nati@ttic.edu">Nati Srebro</a></u></span></b></font></p></div></div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">--</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><b><font color="#3d85c6">Brandie Jones </font></b><div><div><div><font color="#3d85c6"><b><i>Executive </i></b></font><b style="color:rgb(61,133,198)"><i>Administrative Assistant</i></b></div></div><div><font color="#3d85c6">Toyota Technological Institute</font></div><div><font color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></div><div><font color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></div></div><div><font color="#3d85c6"><a href="http://www.ttic.edu/" target="_blank">www.ttic.edu</a> </font></div><div><font color="#3d85c6"><div style="background-color:rgb(238,238,238)"><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><span style="color:rgb(61,133,198)">Working Remotely on Tuesdays</span></div></div></font></div></div></div></div></div>