Communicating with AI Workshop
Arranged by ConceptLab, New Frontiers of Speech and AI&Humanities-Lab@HKU
Speakers
Herman Cappelen (HKU)
Josh Dever (Texas-Austin)
Gabe Dupre (Keele)
Gabbrielle Johnson (Claremont McKenna)
Fintan Mallory (Oslo)
Matthew McKeever (ConceptLab)
Tristram McPherson (Ohio State)
Eliot Michaelson (KCL)
Raphael Milliere (Columbia)
David Plunkett (Dartmouth)
Gurpreet Rattan (Toronto)
Mona Simion (Glasgow)
Rachel Sterken (HKU)
Sunday, June 19th, 2022
9:00-10:15 Rachel Sterken, Eliot Michaelson and Jessica Pepp - The Alignment Problem in Human-AI Communication
10:15-11:30 Fintan Mallory - What Do Word Embeddings ‘Mean’?
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45-13:00 Raphael Milliere - Grammatical Competence and Artificial Intelligence
13:00-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:30 Gabe Dupre and Gabbrielle Johnson - Uncanny Performance, Divergent Competence: Biases as Principled Barriers to Human-Machine Communication
15:30-15:45 Break
15:45-17:00 Gurpreet Rattan - Egocentric Content and Understanding Alien AI
18:30 Dinner
Monday, June 20th, 2022
9:00-10:15 Tristram McPherson and David Plunkett - Strong AI and the Foundations of Ethics
10:15-11:30 Matthew McKeever - AI and Illocutions
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45-13:00 Mona Simion - Talking to Social Robots
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:15 Herman Cappelen and Joshua Dever - AI and the Commodification of Meaning and Communication