***Message to the students about registration fees.You don’t have to register on this site, nor pay the $60 registration fee for 10 days if you sign up for the summer course with credits. All you have to do is pay the summer course fees (at UQAM or your home university - see procedure below).
To obtain the credits for this ISC Summer School, students must register for an ISC summer course offered by UQAM according to the level of study cycle:
Description: Large language models (LMLs) are artificial intelligence systems based on deep learning and trained on massive linguistic datasets from large corpora of varied texts. They are designed to manipulate natural languages in a way that enables them to converse naturally with human beings, answering their questions or receiving instructions from them. In doing so, they can already write, summarize or translate texts, correct their grammar or modify their style, make or summarize several types of documents, design computer code or explain it to humans in clear, simple language, classify texts, tweets or any other written document. The proposed summer school intends to study GMLs from four angles (some more deeply than others): 1) the techniques that enable their development, 2) what they teach us about human cognition and language, 3) the ethical issues they raise, and finally 4) the educational, economic, social and political consequences of their large-scale deployment.
Schedule: This is a 10-day intensive course that corresponds to a three-credit course. Conferences and activities will take place online from June 3rd to June 14, 2024 (break throughout the weekend). The schedule varies from day-to-day depending on the geographical origin of the invited experts.
Assessment: The evaluation details modulated according to the course of study will be available in the syllabus. Registered students will be required to attend conferences and activities planned as part of the ISC 2024 Summer School, to participate actively during question periods and to submit a final paper. Students will be able to interact and submit their paper in English or French.
Professors:
- Serge Robert, Director of the Cognitive Sciences Institute (ISC) and Professor dept. of philosophy, UQAM
- Stevan Harnad, Professor dept. of psychology, UQAM
- Pierre Poirier, Professor dept. of philosophy, UQAM
To register to the course, you must follow the procedure applicable to your situation:
a) UQAM students
b) Students from Quebec universities via the BCI
c) French students
d) Canadians, Independent and international students
a) UQAM students
If you are a student at UQAM, you must register for one of the courses according to your level of study cycle ISC100R (Bachelor), ISC800R (Master) or ISC900R (Ph.D.) through the UQAM website: https://portailetudiant.uqam.ca/. If you can’t register online, you might need permission from your program director. Contact your department's program officer to register for this course. You will have to pay the registration fees for the course credited to UQAM.
b) Other Students from Quebec Universities via the BCI
To be able to obtain credits, you must be registered in a program at your home university, obtain authorization from your department director to register for the course. You will have to pay the registration fees for this course at your home university.
Please follow the procedures below for an authorization to transfer credits:
- Go to the website (https://www.bci-qc.ca/en/aehe/)
- If you need help, you may consult the Student Guide
c) French students
To obtain credits, you must be registered in a BCI-France exchange program (formerly CREPUQ) and you must validate your registration at your home university. You must pay the registration fees for the course ISC100Q (Bac), ISC800Q (Master), ISC900Q (Doctorate) at UQAM or at your home university depending of your program.
d) Canadians, Independent and international students
You must apply for admission to UQAM as an “étudiant libre” (independent student) https://etudier.uqam.ca/etudiants-libres/admission, then you have to register for one of the courses according to your level of study cycle ISC100Q (Bachelors), ISC800Q (Masters) or ISC900Q (Ph.D.). You will have to pay admission fees to UQAM, plus registration fees as an independent student for the credited course to UQAM.
Another possibility for international students
It is possible to make an arrangement with your home university to grant you the credits. Your university must agree to give you the credits for the course taken at UQAM and agree to evaluate the final work following the ISC 2024 Summer School. The steps to obtain this arrangement must be made by the student. To do so, you must complete the form(available on-demand by email at isc at uqam.ca) and obtain the authorizations from your program director and your home university. You will have to pay the credits obtained at your home university. Please note that you will not receive any credit from UQAM or official letter issued by UQAM confirming that this course has been taken. The Cognitive Sciences Institute will ONLY provide a certificate of participation AFTER the event. If you do not obtain the authorization from your home university, it is possible to attend the ISC 2024 Summer School without obtaining the credits, by registering as a participant.