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David Strohmaier

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Philosopher and Computer Scientist at the University of Cambridge. My current research applies deep learning to lexical semantic acquisition. How do neural models learn the meaning of words? https://dstrohmaier.com

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Notes on the Symbol Grounding Problem Β» David Strohmaier This post collects a set of notes on the Symbol Grounding Problem in the context of LLMs. In this context, the question is whether LLM systems have an approp...

New blogpost! I put together notes on the Symbol Grounding Problem: dstrohmaier.com/Reflections-... #philosophyOfAI #NLP

19.10.2025 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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New post on the assumptions guiding our theories of learning and language acquisition: dstrohmaier.com/Assumptions-... #NLP #philosophy #linguistics

07.06.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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"We did not always want what we want today."

04.02.2025 12:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Two Upcoming Talks on Philosophy and AI Β» David Strohmaier I will give two talks about Philosophy and AI in the next few weeks (February 2025).

Blog post on my two upcoming philosophy of AI talks: dstrohmaier.com/Two-Talks/ One talk will be heavy on #linguistics and #NLP, the other on social ontology. #AI #philosophy

03.02.2025 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Vol. 3 (2025) | Experiments in Linguistic Meaning

The ELM3 papers are online, including a paper on contrafactives I've written with Simon Wimmer: journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/... #linguistics #philosophy

25.01.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New blog post on revisiting Plato's Politeia: dstrohmaier.com/Politeia/ #philosophy

19.01.2025 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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KΓΌnstliche Intelligenz und nicht-menschliche EntitΓ€ten: auf der Suche nach Synergien aus unterschiedlichen philosophischen Debatten Symposium „Künstliche Intelligenz und nicht-menschliche Entitäten: auf der Suche nach Synergien aus unterschiedlichen philosophischen Debatten“ Datum: 20.-22. Februar 2025Hinterg...

I'll speak at this event on AI and non-human entities at Heidelberg: philevents.org/event/show/1... #AI #philosophy #philosophyofai

14.01.2025 08:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How we do (not) talk about mistaken beliefs The lexica of natural languages abundantly feature morphologically simple predicates that denote attitudes by which people get things right, for instance factive predicates like know. Yet, as far as w...

Upcoming event at which I will talk about my research on how neural models contrafactives (with Simon Wimmer): philevents.org/event/show/1... #philosophy #NLP4philosophy

13.01.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
LLMs, Symbol Grounding, and other Problems Β» David Strohmaier To my surprise, the recent 2024 EMNLP conference included multiple papers with a philosophical angle. One of them attracted my attention in particular: β€œPra...

LLMs, Symbol Grounding, and other Problems -- Blog post on a recent EMNLP paper: dstrohmaier.com/SGP-Pragmati... #philosophy #AI #NLP

11.01.2025 10:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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