5:30pm - 7:00pm
IASH Room Ln 1106
We're excited to invite you to this semester's event in the Experimental Criticism Lab's speaker series: a lecture from Laurent Dubreuil! Laurent Dubreuil is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University, where he teaches in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies and the Cognitive Science Program. He is the founding director of Cornell’s Humanities Lab, an interdisciplinary research initiative that brings together scholars from the humanities, arts, and sciences to investigate language, cognition, creativity, and the boundaries of human and nonhuman intelligence. His lecture is titled The Humanistic Epistemology of AI: Reflections on the Language Object, and he will be showing that "fundamental AI operations and hypotheses (such as tokenization and word embedding) are, outside of their engineering dimensions, highly dependent on theoretical decisions pertaining to the epistemic status of language." Professor Dubreuil's full abstract and bio are in the attached flyer. This event is sponsored by Comparative Literature and co-sponsored by IASH, DiDa, and the Harpur College Dean's Office.
This event will be 5:30-7:00pm on Wednesday, October 28th in Library North (LN) 1106.