[On Tuesday, February 4, 2025, the Rutgers Computer Science department hosted a Distinguished Lecture on the future of language models. Dan Roth is the Eduardo D. Glandt Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania and the Chief AI Scientist at Oracle.]
See below for a recording of Professor Dan Roth’s talk.
From the lecture’s description:
The rapid progress made over the last few years in generating linguistically coherent natural language has blurred, in the mind of many, the difference between natural language generation, understanding, and the ability to reason with respect to the world. Nevertheless, robust support of high-level decisions that depend on natural language understanding, and one that requires dealing with “truthfulness” are still beyond our capabilities, partly since most of these tasks are computationally more complex than language models can support, are very sparse, often require grounding, and may depend on new types of supervision signals.