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'''All times are Mountain Daylight Time (MDT).''' | |||
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<td align=center><b>Wednesday, December 10</b> </td> | |||
<td><br></td> | |||
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<td>6:30-8:30 PM</td> | |||
<td>Opening reception, Hotel Santa Fe</td> | |||
<td> </td> | |||
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<tr style = "background-color:#aaaaaa"> | |||
<td><br></td> | |||
<td align=center><b>Thursday, December 11</b> </td> | |||
<td><br></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td>7:30 AM</td> | |||
<td>Shuttle from Hotel Santa Fe to Santa Fe Institute</td> | |||
<td> </td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td>8:00-8:30 AM</td> | |||
<td>Breakfast at Santa Fe Institute</td> | |||
<td> </td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td>8:30-8:45 AM</td> | |||
<td>[https://melaniemitchell.me Melanie Mitchell], SFI <br> Welcome and Introduction</td> | |||
<td> </td> | |||
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<tr> | |||
<td> 8:45-9:15 AM</td> | |||
<td>[http://web.mit.edu/cocosci/josh.html Josh Tenenbaum], MIT <br> Scaling AI the Human Way: Building Machines That Understand the World as We Do, and That We Can Understand</td> | |||
<td> </td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td> 9:15-9:30 AM</td> | |||
<td>Discussion</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td> 9:30-10:00 AM</td> | |||
<td> [https://annargrs.github.io/ Anna Rogers], IT University of Copenhagen <br> Machine Reading, Fast and Slow: When Do Models “Understand” Language? </td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td> 10:00-10:15 AM</td> | |||
<td>Discussion</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td> 10:15-10:30 AM</td> | |||
<td> Coffee Break </td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td>10:30-11:00 PM</td> | |||
<td>[https://research.google/people/106776/ Blaise Agüera y Arcas], Google </td> | |||
<td> </td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td> 11:00-11:15 AM</td> | |||
<td>Discussion</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td>11:15-11:45 PM</td> | |||
<td>[https://anna-ivanova.net/ Anna Ivanova], MIT <br> Language Understanding Goes Beyond Language Processing </td> | |||
<td> </td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td> 11:45-12:00 PM</td> | |||
<td>Discussion</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<td> 12:00-1:00 PM</td> | |||
<td>Lunch</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td>1:00-1:30 PM</td> | |||
<td>[https://tallinzen.net/ Tal Linzen], NYU <br> Language models can learn semantics, no matter how you define it</td> | |||
<td> </td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td> 1:30-1:45 PM</td> | |||
<td>Discussion</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td>1:45-2:15 PM</td> | |||
<td>[https://rtmccoy.com/ Tom McCoy], Princeton <br> Bridging the Divide Between Vectors and Symbols</td> | |||
<td> </td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td> 2:15-2:30 PM</td> | |||
<td>Discussion</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td> 2:30-3:30 PM</td> | |||
<td>Afternoon Break</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td> 3:30-4:00 PM</td> | |||
<td> [https://www.harvardlds.org/our-labs/spelke-labspelke-lab-members/elizabeth-spelke/ Liz Spelke], Harvard <br> Human Intelligence: Insights from Infants</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td> 4:00-4:15 PM</td> | |||
<td>Discussion</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td>4:15-4:45 PM</td> | |||
<td>[http://yann.lecun.com/ Yann LeCun], Meta AI, NYU </td> | |||
<td> </td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td> 4:45-5:00 PM</td> | |||
<td>Discussion</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<td> 5:15 PM</td> | |||
<td>Shuttle to Hotel Santa Fe</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<td> 6:30 PM</td> | |||
<td>Group dinner at La Choza</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr style = "background-color:#aaaaaa"> | |||
<td><br></td> | |||
<td align=center><b>Friday, December 12</b> </td> | |||
<td> <br> </td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td>7:30 AM</td> | |||
<td>Shuttle from Hotel Santa Fe to Santa Fe Institute</td> | |||
<td> </td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td>8:00 - 8:30 AM</td> | |||
<td>Breakfast at Santa Fe Institute</td> | |||
<td> </td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td> 8:30-9:00 AM</td> | |||
<td>[https://www.momen-nejad.org/ Ida Momennejad], Microsoft Research<br> Cognitive Maps in Large Language Models </td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<td> 9:00-9:15 PM</td> | |||
<td>Discussion</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td> 9:15-9:45 AM</td> | |||
<td>[http://blam-lab.org/index.php/people/john-krakauer/ John Krakauer], Johns Hopkins and SFI <br> What Understanding Adds to Cambrian intelligence</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<td> 9:45-10:00 AM</td> | |||
<td>Discussion</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<td> 10:00-10:15 AM</td> | |||
<td>Coffee Break</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td> 10:15-10:45 AM</td> | |||
<td>[http://alisongopnik.com/ Alison Gopnik], UC Berkeley and SFI <br> | |||
Imitation and Innovation in AI and Children: Generative AIs Are Cultural Technologies, Not Agents</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<td> 10:45-11:00 AM</td> | |||
<td>Discussion</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td> 11:00-11:30 AM</td> | |||
<td>[https://lawschool.unm.edu/faculty/gipson-rankin/index.html Sonia Gipson Rankin], University of New Mexico <br> Decoding the Law: What will LLMs Mean Under the Law?</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<td> 11:30-11:45 AM</td> | |||
<td>Discussion</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<td> 11:45-1:00 PM</td> | |||
<td>Lunch</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td> 1:00-1:30 PM</td> | |||
<td>[https://dileeplearning.github.io/ Dileep George], DeepMind</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<td> 1:30-1:45 PM</td> | |||
<td>Discussion</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td> 1:45-2:15 PM</td> | |||
<td>[http://www.zenna.org/ Zenna Tavares], Columbia University and Basis Research Institute</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<td> 2:15-2:30 PM</td> | |||
<td>Discussion</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<td> 2:30-3:30 PM</td> | |||
<td>Afternoon Break</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td> 3:30-4:00 PM</td> | |||
<td>[https://psychology.berkeley.edu/people/celeste-kidd Celeste Kidd], UC Berkeley <br> Latent Diversity in Human Concepts</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<td> 4:00-4:15 PM</td> | |||
<td>Discussion</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<tr> | |||
<td> 4:15-4:45 PM</td> | |||
<td>[https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/erica-cartmill/ Erica Cartmill], UCLA <br> How Do We Know What an Animal Understands?</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<td> 4:45-5:00 PM</td> | |||
<td>Discussion</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<td> 5:15 PM</td> | |||
<td>Shuttle to Hotel Santa Fe</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
<td> </td> | |||
<td>Dinner on your own</td> | |||
<td></td> | |||
</tr> | |||
</table> | |||
Revision as of 14:56, 4 September 2025
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Organizers
David Wolpert, SFI, and Shantanu Chakrabartty, London School of Economics
Working Group Dates
December 10-12, 2025
Agenda
All times are Mountain Daylight Time (MDT).
| Wednesday, December 10 | ||
| 6:30-8:30 PM | Opening reception, Hotel Santa Fe | |
| Thursday, December 11 | ||
| 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 | |
| Friday, December 12 | |
|
| 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 |