[spsp-members] Lunch Time Talks - 2/13 Brian Porter and 2/16 Ken Aizawa

[Center for Phil Sci]

The Center for Philosophy of Science invites you to join us for our Lunch Time Talks.  Attend in person, Room 1117 on the 11th floor of the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh or visit our live stream on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg.

LTT: Brian Porter<https://www.hps.pitt.edu/people/brian-porter>
Tuesday, February 13 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST


Title: Perception and Preference in Poetry: Biases Toward AI-Generated Poems


Abstract: AI-generated art and text have become increasingly common, and increasingly sophisticated. This talk presents findings showing that AI-generated poems have become indistinguishable from the poetry of human poets. In fact, we find that participants are more likely to believe that AI-generated poems are human-authored when actually human-authored poems. We offer a partial explanation: participants prefer AI-generated poems because AI poetry is more likely to match their expectations of what a poem looks like. Participants also expect that professional poets will produce “better” poems than AI poems, as evidenced by our results showing that the same poem is consistently rated higher when participants are told it was written by a human poet than when told it was generated by AI. As a result, participants are more likely to rate AI poems as human-authored (compared to actually human-authored poems) because they wrongly infer that the poems they like better are more likely to be written by human poets.


Can’t make it in-person? This talk will available online with the following Zoom link: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/92442811872

 LTT: Ken Aizaw<https://www.researchwithrutgers.com/en/persons/kenneth-aizawa>
Friday, February 16 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST


Title:  Hodgkin and Huxley’s Use of Singular Compositional Abduction


Abstract: One of the most significant achievements of Twentieth-Century physiology was Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley’s development of theory of the action potential. Despite the scientific prominence of this theory and the amount of philosophical attention that has been devoted to the Hodgkin-Huxley model, there has been no philosophical attempt to show how Hodgkin and Huxley brought experimental work to bear in support of the theory. (Imagine philosophers of evolutionary biology not reading Darwin’s Origin of Species.)

In this talk, I will do four things: 1) introduce an example of Hodgkin and Huxley’s reasoning, 2) provide a theory of that case, 3) indicate how the theory applies to other cases, and 4) show how the theory might advance the debate over the scientific legitimacy of mental representations.


Can’t make it in-person? This talk will available online with the following Zoom link: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/97715133156


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