Séminaires du DIC

Yair LAKRETZ - 2 avril 2026 à 10h30 au PK-5115 (201, ave President-Kennedy, 5e étage) TITRE :  Linguistic theory and deep language models RÉSUMÉ  Linguistic theory suggests that human language is organized by a latent hierarchical structure, which allows us to convey complex meanings and to seamlessly interpret sentences we have never encountered before. A central…

Paul KANTOR - 26 mars 2026 à 10h30 au PK-5115 (201, ave President-Kennedy, 5e étage) TITRE : Turing Meets Darwin: A challenge for LLMs RÉSUMÉ  The Turing Test asks whether a machine can imitate human conversation. A Darwinian perspective asks a prior question: how did humans evolve language at all? On this view, language is an…

Jean-Rémy KING - 19 mars 2026 à 10h30 au PK-5115 (201, ave President-Kennedy, 5e étage) TITRE : Language: in search of neural code RÉSUMÉ  Deep learning algorithms offer new methods to understand and model how language is processed in the human brain. Using both encoding (representation -> brain) and decoding (brain -> representations), we show that…

Jacob FELDMAN - 5 mars 2026 à 10h30 au PK-5115 (201, ave President-Kennedy, 5e étage) TITRE :  Human vs Machine in the Game of Hidden Rules RÉSUMÉ  Comparisons of human and machine intelligence are often grounded in supposition, unencumbered by empirical data about human performance. In this talk I'll present results comparing human and machine performance…

Gary LUPYAN - 19 février 2026 à 10h30 au PK-5115 (201, ave President-Kennedy, 5e étage) TITRE :  The unreasonable effectiveness of pattern matching RÉSUMÉ    Large language models (LLMs) can often recover the meaning of texts in which most or all content words have been replaced by nonsense strings—so-called “Jabberwockified” language. In this talk, I argue…

Thomas SERRE - 12 février 2026 à 10h30 au PK-5115 (201, ave President-Kennedy, 5e étage) TITRE : Cortical feedback mechanisms in visual reasoning: From perceptual grouping to abstract compositional reasoning RÉSUMÉ  This talk examines how cortical feedback facilitates compositional visual reasoning, distinguishing biological from artificial vision. Same-different judgments—fundamental symbolic operations that newborn ducklings master from single…