Polifonia at TESaCo symposium ‘Talking Machines: Conversation and Creation With Artificial Intelligence’
Valentina Presutti presented a paper about extracting musical heritage knowledge from text in Polifonia
On 8 November, Valentina Presutti presented a paper called ‘Extracting Musical Heritage Knowledge from text: the problem of relevant implicit knowledge and language evolution over time’ in the TESaCo symposium, a joint project of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques (Paris), ALMA IA-Research Institute for Human Centered Artificial Intelligence (Bologna) and ISTC-CNR (Rome). The workshop was called ‘Talking Machines: conversation and creation with Artificial Intelligence’ and brought together scholars from different fields as well as writers to discuss the promises and limitations of GPT-3, a cutting-edge artificial language model. More specifically, the gathering focused on three main questions around artificial languages:
- the principles, perspectives and limits of artificial intelligence applied to language;
- the problem of the economic and material conditions of their conception and creation, including the role of public research in the development of very costly language models such as GPT-3;
- the uses of AI in conversation and creation, as well as in digital humanities.
You can find the full programme of this fascinating symposium here.