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URL:https://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/activities/artificial-implicature-chatbot
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SUMMARY:Artificial Implicature: Chatbots and Conversation
DESCRIPTION:The problem I consider in this talk emerges from the tension we
  find when we look at the design and architecture of chatbots on the one h
 and and consider their conversational aptitude on the other. In the way th
 at LLM chatbots (such as ChatGPT\, Bard and Claude) are designed and built
 \, there seems no good reason to suppose they possess second-order capacit
 ies such as intention\, belief or knowledge. Yet we have developed theorie
 s of conversation that make great use of second-order capacities of speake
 rs and their audiences to explain how aspects of conversation succeed. As 
 we can all bear witness to now though\, at the point of use chatbots appea
 r capable of performing language tasks at a level close to that of humans.
  This creates a tension when we consider something like\, for example\, th
 e classic Gricean theory of implicature. On a broad summary of this type o
 f account\, to utter p and implicate q requires the reflexive occurrence o
 f an audience supposing a speaker believes that q\, and the speaker believ
 ing that their audience can determine they believe it when they utter p. S
 o taken at face value\, if a chatbot doesn&rsquo\;t have the capacity for 
 belief\, then either in their role as speaker or audience\, they would not
  seem capable of either generating or comprehending implicatures. However\
 , on the surface at least\, it does seem that chatbots are capable of deal
 ing with (some) implicatures\, and as such it raises questions about how w
 e should then correlate this with what we think occurs in cases of implica
 ture with chatbots.
CATEGORIES:Seminar
LOCATION:Seminari de Filosofia UB
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