Monday Feb 24th - Hangar Teatri Trieste, 8:30 PM
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“The Platonic Hypothesis: A Journey Through Neural Networks and Their Representation of the World”
Speakers: Alessio Ansuini - Alberto Cazzaniga
Plato’s famous Allegory of the Cave raises a fundamental question about knowledge: humans can only access reality through their senses, meaning they perceive just its “shadows.”
In our journey, data takes on the role of these shadows. We will start by exploring how neural networks internally represent the world of images, then move on to the processing of words through large language models.
The final destination is the Platonic hypothesis of representation: images and words, while referring to a single underlying reality, construct representations in artificial intelligence models that, despite their differences, converge toward a unified vision of the world.
The event is organized by the AI Student Society and it's part of the AI TALKS series of public seminars