Connectionists: Gary Marcus speaking on November 17 in Developing Minds global online lecture series

[Jochen Triesch]

Dear colleagues,

On November 17, the Developing Minds global online lecture series will feature Gary Marcus:
„Towards a Foundation for AGI“

https://sites.google.com/view/developing-minds-series/home

The live event will take place via zoom at:
09:00 am PST (Pacific Standard Time)
17:00 UTC (Universal Coordinated Time)
18:00 CET (Central European Time)
02:00 am, Friday Nov. 18,  JST (Japan Standard Time)

To participate please register here:
https://sites.google.com/view/developing-minds-series/home

Abstract
Large pretrained language models like GPT-3 and PaLM  have generated enormous enthusiasm, and are capable of producing remarkably fluent language. But they have also been criticized on many grounds, and described as "stochastic parrots." Are they adequate as a basis for artificial general intelligence [AGI], and if not, what would a better foundation for general intelligence look like?

Bio
GARY MARCUS is a leading voice in artificial intelligence. He is a scientist, best-selling author, and serial entrepreneur (Founder of Robust.AI and Geometric.AI, acquired by Uber). He is well-known for his challenges to contemporary AI, anticipating many of the current limitations decades in advance, and for his research in human language development and cognitive neuroscience. 

An Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at NYU, he is the author of five books, including, The Algebraic Mind, Kluge, The Birth of the Mind, and the New York Times Bestseller Guitar Zero. He has often contributed to The New Yorker, Wired, and The New York Times. His most recent book, Rebooting AI, with Ernest Davis, is one of Forbes’s 7 Must Read Books in AI. 

You can follow him at garymarcus.substack.com and on Twitter, @garymarcus.

The talk will also be recored and the recording made available via the web page:
https://sites.google.com/view/developing-minds-series/home

Stay healthy,
 Jochen Triesch

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Prof. Dr. Jochen Triesch
Johanna Quandt Chair for Theoretical Life Sciences
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies and
Goethe University Frankfurt
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