TeC-FiloLab con Neri Marsili: «Rethinking Assertion in the Age of AI»
El jueves, 15 de mayo, a las 12.30, tendrá lugar otra sesión del seminario TeC-FiloLab, en esta ocasión en formato online. Nos acompañará Neri Marsili, investigador de la UNED. Más abajo incluimos el título y el resumen de su charla, así como una breve nota sobre la trayectoria de Neri. Title: «Rethinking Assertion in the Age of AI» Abstract: Can LLMs make genuine assertions? Academics disagree. A key driver of this dispute is an underlying disagreement about what asserting requires. Rather than defending a specific characterisation of assertion, I will review different proposals, showing how each can be extended from human communication to machine communication. Artificial utterances, I will argue, satisfy different conceptions of assertoric force to different degrees. This pluralist approach better acknowledges our conflicting intuitions about machine assertion:…