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Anubav Vasudevan
Biography
Anubav Vasudevan is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. His main research interests are in the areas of formal epistemology and the history of logic. Recently published work deals with various topics in the conceptual foundations of probability, including the role of information-based, or entropic, methods in statistical inference and the relationship between objective chance and causal determinism. At present, he is interested in exploring a number of foundational questions related to the philosophy of artificial intelligence, such as the extent to which more traditional, or discriminative, AI models are still properly conceived of as "generative." He is also interested in questions related to the nature of intellectual attribution in the domain of generative AI. When an AI agent produces a novel idea, theory, or work of art, in what sense can the result of their ideation be said to belong to that agent? Is the agent merely the precipitating cause of the idea, or is the idea attributable to them in some stronger sense, for example, the sense in which a scientific theory may be attributed to a group of researchers, or a novel concept to an individual thinker, or a work of art to an artist? What exactly are the different senses of attribution involved in such claims, and how well do they apply to artificial systems?
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