[Theory] NOW: 10/16 Distinguished Lecture Series: Yejin Choi, University of Washington

[Brandie Jones]

*When:    * Monday, October 16th at *11:30 AM CT*



*Where:    *Talk will be given *live, in-person* at

                     TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue

                     5th Floor, Room 530


*Virtually:  *  via Panopto* (Livestream
<https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=bbae3879-b4c4-4cb0-b9ae-b0820139b35c>)
*



*Who:        *Yejin Choi, University of Washington

*Title:        *Possible Impossibilities and Impossible Possibilities

*Abstract:   *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).

Bio:    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.

Hos*t: Nati Srebro <nati at ttic.edu>*
--
*Brandie Jones *
*Executive **Administrative Assistant*
Toyota Technological Institute
6045 S. Kenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL  60637
www.ttic.edu
Working Remotely on Tuesdays
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