<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">When:</span></b><span style="color:black"> Wednesday, March 8, 2023 at<b> <u>11:30 am CT</u> </b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">Where: </span></b><span style="color:black">Talk will be given <b><u>live, in-person</u></b></span><b><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></b><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">at</span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span><span style="color:black"> TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> 5th Floor, Room 530<b> </b></span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.15pt">Virtually:</span></b><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.15pt"> <i>via</i> Panopto </span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">(<b><a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=c07e3679-c682-4bf5-93ef-afb900f75877" target="_blank">livestream</a></b></span><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.15pt">)</span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">Who: </span></b><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"></span>Adam Kalai, Microsoft Research</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:13.91px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></font></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Title:</b> The Power of Intelligent Language Models<br><br><b>Abstract: </b>Recently, large language models have been trained on intelligent languages including natural languages, such as English, and programming languages, such as Python. We will examine several interesting applications of these models. First, they can be used to enumerate human stereotypes and discriminatory biases, suggesting that they must be used carefully. Second, they can be used to generate and solve their own programming puzzles, which can be used in a self-training pipeline to solve increasingly challenging algorithmic programming problems. Third, we illustrate how they can be used to simulate numerous human participants in classic behavioral economic and psychology experiments, such as the ultimatum game, risk aversion, garden path sentences, and the Milgram shock experiment. Finally, we discuss future directions in using these language models to understand intelligent animal communication in connection with ProjectCETI, which aims to understand the communication of sperm whales.<br><br><b>Bio:</b> Adam Tauman Kalai is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England. His research includes work on artificial intelligence and algorithms, with a focus on code generation and the responsible use of Language Models. He received his BA from Harvard and PhD from Avrim Blum at Carnegie Mellon University. He has served as an Assistant Professor at TTIC and Georgia Tech. He is a member of the science team of Project CETI, an interdisciplinary initiative to understand the communication of sperm whales. He has co-chaired AI and crowdsourcing conferences including the COLT (the Conference on Learning Theory), the HCOMP (the Conference on Human Computation) and NEML. His honors include the Majulook prize, multiple best paper awards, an NSF CAREER award, and an Alfred P. Sloan fellowship.</font></p><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">Host:</span></b><span style="color:black"> <a href="mailto:avrim@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Avrim Blum</a></span></font></p><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, Rm 517</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">773-834-1757</font></i></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 3:42 PM Mary Marre <<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">When:</span></b><span style="color:black"> Wednesday, March <span>8</span>, 2023 at<b> <u>11:30 am CT</u> </b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">Where: </span></b><span style="color:black">Talk will be given <b><u>live, in-person</u></b></span><b><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></b><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">at</span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span><span style="color:black"> TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> 5th Floor, Room 530<b> </b></span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.15pt">Virtually:</span></b><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.15pt"> <i>via</i> Panopto </span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">(<b><a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=c07e3679-c682-4bf5-93ef-afb900f75877" target="_blank">livestream</a></b></span><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.15pt">)</span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">Who: </span></b><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"></span></font>Adam Kalai, Microsoft Research</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:13.91px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></font></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><b>Title:</b> The Power of Intelligent Language Models<br><br><b>Abstract: </b>Recently, large language models have been trained on intelligent languages including natural languages, such as English, and programming languages, such as Python. We will examine several interesting applications of these models. First, they can be used to enumerate human stereotypes and discriminatory biases, suggesting that they must be used carefully. Second, they can be used to generate and solve their own programming puzzles, which can be used in a self-training pipeline to solve increasingly challenging algorithmic programming problems. Third, we illustrate how they can be used to simulate numerous human participants in classic behavioral economic and psychology experiments, such as the ultimatum game, risk aversion, garden path sentences, and the Milgram shock experiment. Finally, we discuss future directions in using these language models to understand intelligent animal communication in connection with ProjectCETI, which aims to understand the communication of sperm whales.<br><br><b>Bio:</b> Adam Tauman Kalai is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England. His research includes work on artificial intelligence and algorithms, with a focus on code generation and the responsible use of Language Models. He received his BA from Harvard and PhD from Avrim Blum at Carnegie Mellon University. He has served as an Assistant Professor at TTIC and Georgia Tech. He is a member of the science team of Project CETI, an interdisciplinary initiative to understand the communication of sperm whales. He has co-chaired AI and crowdsourcing conferences including the COLT (the Conference on Learning Theory), the HCOMP (the Conference on Human Computation) and NEML. His honors include the Majulook prize, multiple best paper awards, an NSF CAREER award, and an Alfred P. Sloan fellowship.</p><div><br></div><div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">Host:</span></b><span style="color:black"> <a href="mailto:avrim@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Avrim Blum</a></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, Rm 517</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">773-834-1757</font></i></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 10:01 PM Mary Marre <<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">When:</span></b><span style="color:black"> Wednesday, March 8, 2023 at<b> <u>11:30 am CT</u> </b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">Where: </span></b><span style="color:black"><span>Talk</span> will be given <b><u>live, in-person</u></b></span><b><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></b><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">at</span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span><span style="color:black"> TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> 5th Floor, Room 530<b> </b></span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.15pt">Virtually:</span></b><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.15pt"> <i>via</i> Panopto </span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">(<b><a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=c07e3679-c682-4bf5-93ef-afb900f75877" target="_blank">livestream</a></b></span><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.15pt">)</span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">Who: </span></b><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"></span></font>Adam Kalai, Microsoft Research</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:13.91px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></font></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><b>Title:</b> The Power of Intelligent Language Models<br><br><b>Abstract: </b>Recently, large language models have been trained on intelligent languages including natural languages, such as English, and programming languages, such as Python. We will examine several interesting applications of these models. First, they can be used to enumerate human stereotypes and discriminatory biases, suggesting that they must be used carefully. Second, they can be used to generate and solve their own programming puzzles, which can be used in a self-training pipeline to solve increasingly challenging algorithmic programming problems. Third, we illustrate how they can be used to simulate numerous human participants in classic behavioral economic and psychology experiments, such as the ultimatum game, risk aversion, garden path sentences, and the Milgram shock experiment. Finally, we discuss future directions in using these language models to understand intelligent animal communication in connection with ProjectCETI, which aims to understand the communication of sperm whales.<br><br><b>Bio:</b> <span>Adam</span> Tauman <span>Kalai</span> is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England. His research includes work on artificial intelligence and algorithms, with a focus on code generation and the responsible use of Language Models. He received his BA from Harvard and PhD from Avrim Blum at Carnegie Mellon University. He has served as an Assistant Professor at TTIC and Georgia Tech. He is a member of the science team of Project CETI, an interdisciplinary initiative to understand the communication of sperm whales. He has co-chaired AI and crowdsourcing conferences including the COLT (the Conference on Learning Theory), the HCOMP (the Conference on Human Computation) and NEML. His honors include the Majulook prize, multiple best paper awards, an NSF CAREER award, and an Alfred P. Sloan fellowship.</p><div><br></div><div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">Host:</span></b><span style="color:black"> <a href="mailto:avrim@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Avrim Blum</a></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, Rm 517</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">773-834-1757</font></i></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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