ISC 2024 Summer School: The science and stakes of Large Language Models : ISC 2024 Summer School UQAM | University of Quebec in Montreal Montreal, Canada, June 3-14, 2024 |
Conference website | https://sites.grenadine.uqam.ca/sites/isc/en/iscuqam2024 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isc2024summerschool |
Abstract registration deadline | May 3, 2024 |
Submission deadline | May 6, 2024 |
Call for posters on Cognition and Large Language Models (French version below)
ISC 2024 Summer School - The Science and Stakes of Large Language Models
June 3-14, 2024 Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) Montreal, Canada
You are invited to submit an abstract for a poster presentation for the poster session at the ISC 2024 Summer School on The Science and Stakes of Large Language Models, organized by the Cognitive Sciences Institute (ISC) at UQAM, Montreal. As the Summer School will be comodal (offered simultaneously in both in-person and distance), you may choose to present your poster in person or online.
More than 40 renowned researchers will gather together to discuss issues concerning the nature of language and cognition in the context of the rise of Large Language Models, and this from multiple perspectives, such as linguistics, psychology, Artificial Intelligence, cognitive neuroscience, cognitive computing and philosophy, ethics, anthropology, in social sciences, communication, sociology or political science. Poster presentations from graduate, postgraduate, and young researchers working on Large Language Models in any of these fields are welcome. Some of our confirmed speakers are:
- Misha Belkin, (UCSD), Computer Science and engineering
- Samy Bengio(UC Berkeley), Computer science
- Danilo Bzdok, (McGill) Bio-engineering and computer science
- Dave Chalmers, (NYU) Philosophy
- Jackie Cheung, (McGill) Computer science
- Dan Dennett, (Tufts) Philosophy
- Alyosha Efros, (Berkeley) Computer science
- Karl Friston, (UCL) Neuroscience
- Richard Futrell, (UCI) Linguistics
- Christian Lebière, (CMU) Psychology
- Alessandro Lenci, (U Pisa) Linguistics
- Mike Levin, (Tufts) Biology
- Gary Lupyan, (U Wisc) Psychology
- Holger Lyre, (U Magdeburg) Philosophy
- Kyle Mahdowald, (U Texas) Linguistics
- Jocelyn Mclure, (McGill) Philosophy
- Melanie Mitchell, (Santa Fe Inst) Computer science
- Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, (INRIA, Bordeaux) IA Development
- Ellie Pavlick, (Brown) Computer science
- Eva Portelance, (McGill) AI/cognitive science
- Friedemann Pulvermueller, (FU Berlin) Neurosciences
- Blake Richards, (Mcgill) Psychology and computer science
- Irina Rish, (MILA) Computer science
- Susan Schneider, (Florida Atlantic) Philosophy
- Josh Tenenbaum, (MIT) Psychology
- Stephen Wolfram, (Mathematica) Mathematics
- Kaiyu Yang, (Caltech) Mathematics
The topics of the ISC 2024 Summer School are listed below, and your proposition should be relevant to at least one of them:
- What are GMLs and how do they relate to other forms of Artificial Intelligence?
- What are the machine learning mechanisms used to build GMLs?
- What do GMLs tell us about the nature of human cognition? or cognition in general (human and non-human)?
- What can GML teach us about the nature of language?
- What role will GML play in the development of AGI?
- How can human thought/cognition interact fruitfully with conversational machines and other potential applications of GML?
- What consequences will conversational machines have in education? medical? legal? (geo)political, (etc.)
- What will be the social and economic impact of GML?
- What ethical issues are raised by GML?
- What will be the future of GML (future developments but also possible unexpected consequences)?
- Has ChatGPT passed the great challenge of cognitive science: the Turing Test?
- What are the implications of GML for so-called "situated", "embedded" and "grounded" approaches?
Guidelines for submission
All submissions must be made through the EasyChair system by following this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isc2024summerschool
If you don’t have an EasyChair account, click on the "create an account " tab and follow the instructions. When you are connected, click the "New Submission" tab. Your submission must include:
- A title An abstract of about 350 words (2500 characters, spaces included)
- Full name, affiliation and email address of the author and co-authors.
- A minimum of 3 keywords The topic(s) above relevant to your poster and the discipline(s) studied
Deadline The submission deadline is May 7, 2024. Notifications of acceptance will be sent to authors by May 13, 2024 with poster guidelines. For additional information about the ISC 2024 Summer School, visit the website: https://sites.grenadine.uqam.ca/sites/isc/en/iscuqam2024/
***Registration is mandatory to attend and present a poster at the ISC 2024 Summer School. Participants whose posters are accepted will be eligible for the reduced registration rate.