Language and AI Colloquium III: Shall AI Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? An Exploration of Creative Mechanisms in Large Language Models by Tim Van de Cruys

This initiative aims at bringing together all those interested or working on the intersections of natural language and Artificial Intelligence.

The Language and AI colloquia will take place from October 2024 to May 2025. Each colloquium will take place on Friday, it will start at 14:00 and will end at 15:00. For the interested people, it would be possible to arrange 1-on-1 meetings with the speakers.

Tim van de Cruys

The speaker for the third Language and AI Colloquium is Tim Van de Cruys from KU Leuven with: 'Shall AI Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? An Exploration of Creative Mechanisms in Large Language Models'.

Tim Van de Cruys's main research interest is natural language processing, with a particular focus on the unsupervised modeling of meaning, the analysis of multivariate language data within the mathematical framework of tensor algebra, and creative language generation.

He is currently an associate professor with the Linguistics Department at the Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven. Previously, he was a CNRS researcher affiliated to the IRIT computer science laboratory in Toulouse. He obtained his PhD from the University of Groningen, and held post-doctoral positions at INRIA in Paris, and the University of Cambridge.

Van de Cruys is head of the Centre for Computational Linguïstics and member of Leuven.AI - KU Leuven Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

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