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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Science and Stakes of Large Language Models</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">UQAM’s Cognitive Science Institute’s 2024 Summer School</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">June 3rd to 14th 2024</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">LLMs are the language learning models at the core of the most significant recent advances in generative AI such as GPT4, Llama, Claude, Gemini, DALL-E, etc. As such,
they pose many important questions to cognitive scientists:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Do LLMs understand what they’re saying?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Do LLMs need polymodal grounding to truly mean what they say?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Do LLMs disprove Chomsky’s poverty of stimulus argument for Universal Grammar?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Can LLMs be made neurologically plausible?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Are LLMs ethical? And is their use unethical?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">See what many of the sharpest researchers in the field think about these and many other important questions regarding LLMs.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">La science et les enjeux des grands modèles de langue</span><span lang="FR-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">École d’été 2024 de l’Institut des sciences cognitives, UQAM</span><span lang="FR-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">3 juin au 14 juin 2024</span><span lang="FR-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Les GML sont les modèles d'apprentissage du langage au cœur des avancées récentes les plus significatives en matière d'IA générative, telles que GPT4,
Llama, Claude, Gemini, DALL-E, etc. En tant que tels, ils posent de nombreuses questions importantes aux chercheurs en sciences cognitives :</span><span lang="FR-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Les GML comprennent-ils ce qu'ils disent ?</span><span lang="FR-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Les GML ont-ils besoin d'un ancrage polymodal pour savoir de quoi ils parlent ?</span><span lang="FR-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Les GML réfutent-ils l'argument de la pauvreté du stimulus de Chomsky pour la grammaire universelle ?</span><span lang="FR-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Peut-on rendre les GML neurologiquement plausibles ?</span><span lang="FR-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Les GML sont-ils éthiques ? Et leur utilisation l’est-elle ?</span><span lang="FR-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Découvrez ce que de nombreux chercheurs parmi les plus réputés dans ce domaine pensent de ces questions et de bien d'autres questions importantes concernant
les GML.</span><span lang="FR-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(pour les dernières informations sur les orateurs et les conférences :
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