Holger Lyre, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy and member of the Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences (CBBS) at the University of Magdeburg. His research areas comprise philosophy of science, neurophilosophy, philosophy of AI and philosophy of physics. His publications include 4 (co-) authored and 4 (co-) edited books as well as about 100 papers. He has worked on foundations of quantum theory and gauge symmetries and made contributions to structural realism, semantic externalism, extended mind, reductionism, and structural models of the mind.
Talk
"Understanding AI”: Semantic Grounding in Large Language Models | June 14
Sessions in which Holger Lyre participates
Friday 14 June, 2024
Do LLMs understand the meaning of the texts they generate? Do they possess a semantic grounding? And how could we understand whether and what they understand? We have recently witnessed a generative turn in AI, since generative models, including LLMs, are key for self-supervised learning. To assess the question of semantic grounding, I distinguish and discuss five methodological ways. The most promising way is to apply core assumptions of theories of meaning in philosophy of mind and language...
