Main Event
Engineering and Technology
, London Borough of Brent, United Kingdom
2026-05-08 - 2026-05-08
events@thebritishacademy.ac.uk
Event Insights : Gain more knowledge on Natural language and artificial intelligence - for publication and research. Large Language Models have shown remarkable abilities in natural language processing, tempting many to speak of them as if they used and understood language as humans do. However, doing so overlooks the distinction between the structural systems that support meaning and reasoning and the mechanisms for predicting what will come next in a text on the basis of similar passages in the vast amount of training data that LLMs encode. LLMs excel at prediction, and it is surprising how much can be done by memorization indexed by similarity alone. LLMs can answer abstruse questions, generate text of astonishing fluency on any subject in any style, and generate workable computer code in this way.
