Machine Psychology as a Complex System
Satellite Event of the Conference on Complex Systems 24
A satellite revolving around LLMs like ChatGPT's as complex systems
The “Machine Psychology as a Complex System” (MPCS) satellite aims to gather a multidisciplinary community of complexity scientists interested in cognitive science, psychology, computational social science and computer science, all working or interested in large language models (LLMs) as cognitive agents.
Endowed with stunning knowledge processing abilities, LLMs are quickly revolutionising several aspects of our societies, enabling generative AI services like novel writing, news media creation, image production and human conversation enhancements.
This rich mosaic of multiple applications of LLMs underlines a crucial need for the research community to better understand the cognitive abilities, biases and non-human aspects of these artificial intelligences (AIs).
Complexity science can crucially rise up to the challenge of understanding LLMs through cybernetics, systems theory and ecological psychology.
Complexity science can crucially rise up to this challenge of understanding LLMs: Complexity science can also vastly contribute to better understanding the psychology of machines because complex systems provide a powerful umbrella language, where experts from multiple disciplines can exchange, test and develop theory and data from multiple perspectives at once.
The MPCS satellite at CCS2024 will achieve this melting pot of different expertise by rallying the cognitive, psychology and computational social science audiences together with computer scientists interested in natural language processing or cognitive computing.
Invited Speakers
Giulio Rossetti
Senior Researcher at CNR-ISTI and External Professor at Università di Pisa
TBA
Roundtable on LLMs, society and complex systems
Organising Committee
Massimo Stella
Professor on Direct Call and Senior Researcher, CogNosco Lab, DIPSCO, UniTrento
Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri
Full Professor, Dept. of Sociology, UniTrento
Riccardo Improta
Researcher, CogNosco Lab, UniTrento
Call for Contributed Talks + Online Posters:
The MPCS satellite will accept up to 10 contributed talks (10 min presentations + 5 min Q/A each) and up to 10 online posters.
The event will have also an online poster session and a 45 min roundtable.
Submission will be sifted by the Organising Team and notifications of acceptances will be sent by early June.
Satellite Registration
Registration to the satellite depends on registration to the main conference - https://ccs24.cssociety.org/
Registration to the MPCS is open HERE. Participation to the workshop is conditional to registering to the CCS24.