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Application Keynote Lecture
Prof. John Naughton, University of Cambridge
What Machines Don’t Know
AbstractLarge Language Models are cultural technologies and, as such, moderately useful. But they (and those who build them) have two blind spots. One is their embodiment of a ludicrously narrow concept of ‘intelligence’. The other is the delusion that when one has ‘read’ everything that’s been written, one knows everything worth knowing.Professor John Naughton is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) and Co-Founder of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, both at the University of Cambridge. He is also Emeritus Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University, Director of the Press Fellowship Programme at Wolfson College, and the technology columnist of the Observer.
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