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Four PhD Positions in AI, Digital Humanities, and Cultural Heritage
Deadline: Wednesday 15 May 2024Do you want to become part of a dynamic community that is at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence, Digital Humanities, and Cultural Heritage?
Our experts from the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation (ILLC) and the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory, and Material Culture (AHM) are looking for four talented and ambitious PhD candidates. Your research will be part of the Natural Language Processing and Digital Humanities unit of the ILLC (Projects 1-3) or the Digital Heritage research group of the AHM (Project 4).
For more information, see here or at https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Four-PhD-Positions-in-AI%2C-Digital-Humanities%2C-and-Cultural-Heritage/792167402/ or contact Dr.ir. Jaap Kamps at kamps at uva.nl. -
PhD on Benchmarking Scientific Explanation in Psychological Practice
Deadline: Monday 6 May 2024Are you looking for a PhD position in a dynamic setting? Do you want to execute philosophy of science research informed by and engaging scientific practices? The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) (https://www.illc.uva.nl/) currently has a vacant PhD position for a talented student as part of the project Benchmarking scientific explanation in psychological practice, led by principal investigator Dr. Dingmar van Eck. The ILLC is one of the five Research Schools within the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research.
For more information, see here or at https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Position-Benchmarking-Scientific-Explanation-in-Psychological-Practice/792180302/ or contact Dr. Dingmar van Eck at d.vaneck at uva.nl. -
Tobias Blanke awarded ERC Advanced Grant
We are pleased to announce that Tobias Blanke has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant, to work on Deep Culture - Living with Difference in the Age of Deep Learning (Deep Culture).
For more information, see https://www.uva.nl/shared-content/uva/en/news/news/2024/04/erc-advanced-grants-for-four-uva-and-amsterdam-umc-researchers.html or contact Tobias Blanke at t.blanke at uva.nl.
ILLC Events this week
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24 April 2024, FOAM Seminar, Michael Benedikt
Speaker: Michael BenediktTitle: Logic and asymptotic combinatorics of Graph Neural NetworksLocation: Room L1.08, ILLC Lab42, Science Park 900, AmsterdamFor more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/FOAM/posts/talk13b/ or contact Gregor Behnke at g.behnke at uva.nl, or Ronald de Haan at r.dehaan at uva.nl. -
(Updated) 25 April 2024, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Paul Röttger
Speaker: Paul Röttger (Università Bocconi)Title: Evaluating Values and Opinions in Large Language ModelsLocation: Room L3.33 at LAB42, Amsterdam Science Park 900, plus live streaming on ZoomMuch recent work seeks to evaluate values and opinions in large language models (LLMs), motivated by concerns around real-world LLM applications. For example, politically-biased LLMs may subtly influence society when they are used by millions of people. Such real-world concerns, however, stand in stark contrast to the artificiality of current evaluations using multiple-choice surveys and questionnaires: real users do not ask LLMs survey questions. In my talk, I will present recent work in which we challenge the prevailing constrained evaluation paradigm for values and opinions in LLMs. I will also outline the steps we are now taking to build more realistic unconstrained evaluations for political values and opinions in LLMs.
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26 April 2024, Master of Logic defense, Jori Koolstra
Title: Conceptualization as Explanatory Coherence: An Application to Set Theory's Potentialism vs. Minimalism DebateLocation: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, AmsterdamSupervisor: Thomas Schindler -
(New) 26 April 2024, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Pushkar Mishra AI Research)
Speaker: Pushkar Mishra (Meta (Facebook) AI Research)Location: Room L1.01 at LAB42, Amsterdam Science Park, plus live streaming on ZoomFor more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.