Category: Events

ChatGPT and Education: Hype Versus Reality (3/24/2023 12 Noon)

In a few short months, many of us have heard of or tried ChatGPT, the large language model (LLM) that generates coherent texts on demand in a broadly accessible chat interface. Many opinions have been voiced about ChatGPT and other natural language intelligence systems, and crucially, how they may affect education and teaching in practice. Are LLMs an unstoppable force for cheating, a powerful tool for learning, or all or none of the above?…

Mind the Bot? How Close are Chatbots to Having Minds (Like Ours)? (3/22/23)

  • Publication date March 22, 2023
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The remarkable performances of chatbots like ChatGPT have arguably made the classic Turing Test for machine intelligence obsolete; ChatGPT’s ability to participate in convincing human-like conversations is uncanny. But are we any closer to artificial general intelligence? To AIs with minds ? In this talk, I will explore some of the ways that generative language models like ChatGPT do and do not behave like human minds and what they would need to get closer to being truly minded….

Making Technology Talk: Conversation And/As Artificial Intelligence

Making Technology Talk Poster

March 2, 2023 Abstract: As an early metric for what he called “machine intelligence,” Alan Turing proposed an “imitation game.” In this game, a human would converse via a text-only interface with two partners–one human and one machine–then would guess which one was which. Turing thus reduced the question of machine intelligence to the question of…

ChatGPT in Education: Boon, Bane, and Beyond

  • Publication date February 20, 2023
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On February 20th 2023 at 6pm in the CHI Think Tank (Frost Library) Professors Chris Grobe, Lee Spector, and Kristina Reardon engaged in a discussion exploring the complex web of variables that ChatGPT touches upon, including ethics, justice, motivation, and innovation as well as strategies for navigating generative AI technology in the classroom. An article…

AI Tools & Mentorship Program

  • Publication date December 7, 2022
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Tools and Mentorship Poster

Hi all, We will be having our Tools showcase and Mentorship Program Wednesday (12/7) from 6-7 pm in Frost Library. Please feel free to come by to explore AI tools and talk about using AI with us!…

AI Tools Showcase and Hiring Info

  • Publication date May 12, 2022
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AI Tools Showcase and Hiring Info

May 12, 2022 Artificial Intelligence in the Liberal Arts (AILA) will exhibit AI tools, including some that can be used by anyone, regardless of experience. AILA job openings for the fall will also be discussed. Tools to be presented include the Amherst cluster computer, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Rekognition, Google Vision, and Artbreeder. Food from Black…

Dancing with Myself: Interdisciplinary Machine Learning Methods for Choreography (feat. Mariel Pettee)

  • Publication date April 18, 2022
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Mariel Pettee Dancing

A recording of the event can be found here: Kaltura, Youtube DATE & TIME: Monday, April 18, 5:00 – 6:00 PMLOCATION: Paino Lecture Hall In these years marked by physical distance, Dr. Pettee’s primary dance partner has been a machine learning (ML) model. Inspired by her applications of ML in the domain of high-energy particle physics during her PhD,…