AI and the Barrier of Meaning 2 - Agenda

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All times are Mountain Daylight Time (MDT).

	Sunday, April 23
6:30-8:30 PM	Opening reception, Hotel Santa Fe
	Monday, April 24
7:30 AM	Shuttle from Hotel Santa Fe to Santa Fe Institute
8:00-8:30 AM	Breakfast at Santa Fe Institute
8:30-8:45 AM	Melanie Mitchell, SFI Welcome and Introduction
8:45-9:15 AM	Josh Tenenbaum, MIT Scaling AI the Human Way: Building Machines That Understand the World as We Do, and That We Can Understand
9:15-9:30 AM	Discussion
9:30-10:00 AM	Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen Machine Reading, Fast and Slow: When Do Models “Understand” Language?
10:00-10:15 AM	Discussion
10:15-10:30 AM	Coffee Break
10:30-11:00 PM	Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Google
11:00-11:15 AM	Discussion
11:15-11:45 PM	Anna Ivanova, MIT Language Understanding Goes Beyond Language Processing
11:45-12:00 PM	Discussion
12:00-1:00 PM	Lunch
1:00-1:30 PM	Tal Linzen, NYU Language models can learn semantics, no matter how you define it
1:30-1:45 PM	Discussion
1:45-2:15 PM	Tom McCoy, Princeton Bridging the Divide Between Vectors and Symbols
2:15-2:30 PM	Discussion
2:30-3:30 PM	Afternoon Break
3:30-4:00 PM	Liz Spelke, Harvard Human Intelligence: Insights from Infants
4:00-4:15 PM	Discussion
4:15-4:45 PM	Yann LeCun, Meta AI, NYU
4:45-5:00 PM	Discussion
5:15 PM	Shuttle to Hotel Santa Fe
6:30 PM	Group dinner at La Choza
	Tuesday, April 25
7:30 AM	Shuttle from Hotel Santa Fe to Santa Fe Institute
8:00 - 8:30 AM	Breakfast at Santa Fe Institute
8:30-9:00 AM	Ida Momennejad, Microsoft Research Cognitive Maps in Large Language Models
9:00-9:15 PM	Discussion
9:15-9:45 AM	John Krakauer, Johns Hopkins and SFI What Understanding Adds to Cambrian intelligence
9:45-10:00 AM	Discussion
10:00-10:15 AM	Coffee Break
10:15-10:45 AM	Alison Gopnik, UC Berkeley and SFI Imitation and Innovation in AI and Children: Generative AIs Are Cultural Technologies, Not Agents
10:45-11:00 AM	Discussion
11:00-11:30 AM	Sonia Gipson Rankin, University of New Mexico Decoding the Law: What will LLMs Mean Under the Law?
11:30-11:45 AM	Discussion
11:45-1:00 PM	Lunch
1:00-1:30 PM	Dileep George, DeepMind
1:30-1:45 PM	Discussion
1:45-2:15 PM	Zenna Tavares, Columbia University and Basis Research Institute
2:15-2:30 PM	Discussion
2:30-3:30 PM	Afternoon Break
3:30-4:00 PM	Celeste Kidd, UC Berkeley Latent Diversity in Human Concepts
4:00-4:15 PM	Discussion
4:15-4:45 PM	Erica Cartmill, UCLA How Do We Know What an Animal Understands?
4:45-5:00 PM	Discussion
5:15 PM	Shuttle to Hotel Santa Fe
	Dinner on your own
	Wednesday, April 26
7:30 AM	Shuttle from Hotel Santa Fe to Santa Fe Institute
8:00 - 8:30 AM	Breakfast at Santa Fe Institute
8:30-9:00 AM	David Krakauer, SFI Feynman, Shannon, and Darwin Worry About Understanding
9:00-9:15 PM	Discussion
9:15-9:45 AM	Rosa Cao, Stanford If AI systems Are Models, What Are They Models Of?
9:45-10:00 AM	Discussion
10:00-10:15 AM	Coffee Break
10:15-10:45 AM	David Chalmers, NYU Understanding Understanding Through Conceptual Engineering
10:45-11:00 AM	Discussion
11:00-11:30 AM	Daniel Dennett, Tufts University The Evolution of Understanding, On Several Levels
11:30-11:45 AM	Discussion
11:45-12:45 PM	Lunch
12:45-1:15 PM	Jacob Browning, NYU Two Models of Understanding
1:15-1:30 PM	Discussion
1:30-2:00 PM	Raphaël Millière, Columbia Dimensions of Machine Understanding
2:00-2:15 PM	Discussion
2:15-2:30 PM	Break
2:30-3:00 PM	Jacob Foster, UCLA Deconstructing the Barrier of Meaning
3:00-3:15 PM	Discussion
3:15-3:45 PM	Concluding Discussion
3:45 PM	Adjourn
4:00 PM	Shuttle to Hotel Santa Fe