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DESCRIPTION:Featuring Professor N. Katherine Hayles\, this talk will offer 
 a set of criteria by which a system may be judged to be cognitive or not\,
  testing it against minimally cognitive biological lifeforms such as unice
 llular organisms and plants. The candidate criteria should admit implicit 
 and nonconscious cognition and distinguish between adaptation and cognitio
 n. The criteria will then be applied to AIs\, specifically Large Language 
 Models (LLMs). The talk will conclude with examples of how well LLMs are a
 ble to understand and interpret a complex literary text\, Henry James “T
 he Figure in the Carpet.”\n\nN. Katherine Hayles is Distinguished Resear
 ch Professor at the University of California\, Los Angeles\; the James B. 
 Duke Professor Emerita from Duke University\; and member of the American A
 cademy of Arts and Sciences.\n\nThis event is hybrid: in person and on Zoo
 m.\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the George Washington University Depar
 tment of English\, Digital Humanities Institute\, University Writing Progr
 am\, Department of History\, and the Trustworthy AI Initiative. \n\nFree e
 vent but please register.
GEO:38.898842;-77.046358
LOCATION:George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum\, Myers Roo
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SUMMARY:Modes of Cognition: Implications for AI
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