The VvL Logic at Large Lectures are annual, public lectures organised for a general audience. Upcoming Logic at Large Lecture:

Logic at Large Lecture 2023 - Lukasz Kaiser

June 6, 2023, 19:00-20:30 CET, online (zoom)

Zoom link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/85293036232

Lukasz Kaiser (OpenAI): How Logic Shapes Transformers

Lukasz Kaiser is a researcher at OpenAI, who works on fundamental aspects of deep learning and natural language processing. Prior to joining OpenAI, he was a Staff Research Scientist in the Google Brain team, where he co-designed state-of-the-art neural models for machine translation, parsing and other algorithmic and generative tasks and co-authored the TensorFlow system, the Tensor2Tensor and Trax libraries and the Transformer model, on which modern large language models such as ChatGPT are based. Before his position at Google, he was a tenured researcher at University Paris Diderot and worked on logic and automata theory. He received his PhD from RWTH Aachen in 2008 with a thesis on Logic and Games on Automatic Structures.

Program:

19:00-20:00 Lecture by Lukasz Kaiser

20:00-20:30 Panel discussion on the role of logic in modern AI (panel includes Jan Broersen, Nina Gierasimczuk, Lukasz Kaiser)

Please register at https://forms.gle/oV8X72TaBvTMEG1M9 

Organizers: Balder ten Cate (b.d.tencate@uva.nl) and Sonja Smets (s.j.l.smets@uva.nl).

Past Logic at Large Lectures