Past Events

"LLMs as Models of Reasoning" Abstract: Recent advances in large language models that use self-prompting like GPT’s o1/o3 and DeepSeek have begun to encroach on human-level performance on “higher reasoning” problems in mathematics, planning, and problem-solving tasks. OpenAI in particular has made ambitious claims that these models are reasoning and that by scrutinizing [...]

"Why Pan Pancomputationalism?" Abstract: Pancomputationalism is the view that every system in nature (e.g. brains, digestive tracts, rocks, buckets of water, etc.) can be understood as computing or running a program, effectively making everything in nature a kind of computer. In response, an increasing number of philosophers have argued that while we can [...]