Assessing the Social Capacity of Large Language Models

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• David Jurgens, University of Michigan
• Thursday 30 November 2023, 15:00-16:00
• https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

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Much of language is social: nearly all of what we communicate is directed to other people in a particular social context. Yet, our traditional models for natural language understanding have typically operated independently of this social context. With large language models (LLMs) now being used in more interpersonal contexts, we ask to what degree do these models understand the social world in which they operate. In this talk, I will describe three studies aiming to measure the social capacity of LLMs from different angles: their ability to recognize different types of social information in messages, their ability to use the social context to correctly interpret a context-sensitive message, and their potential for innate personality-like characteristics. Through these examples, I will highlight the importance of social information for improving natural language processing models.

This talk is part of the Language Technology Lab Seminars series.

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