<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">[* Apologies in case of multiple posting *]</font></span></div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, in collaboration with the AISB (Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, UK) is pleased to announce the next seminar of its Spotlight Seminars on AI initiative:</font></span></div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">January 30 – 5:00 P.M. (CET)</font></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Title: </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Evaluating Commonsense Reasoning in Large Language Models</span></font></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Speaker: Anthony Cohn, University of Leeds, UK</font></span></div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Link Streaming: </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/@AixiaIt/streams&source=gmail-imap&ust=1738239542000000&usg=AOvVaw2YhVZVeJE2ogCZyZndd6OV" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.youtube.com/@AixiaIt/streams</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br></font><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Abstract: </span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">In this talk I will discuss the ability of LLMs to perform commonsense reasoning, particularly with regard to spatial reasoning. Across a wide range of LLMs, although they show abilities rather better than chance, they still struggle with many questions and tasks, for example when reasoning about directions, or topological relations. I will also discuss issues arising from the fact that some of the most powerful language models currently are proprietary systems, accessible only via (typically restrictive) web or software programming interfaces. This is the Language-Models-as-a-Service (LMaaS) paradigm. In contrast with scenarios where full model access is available, as in the case of open-source models, such closed-off language models present specific challenges for evaluating, benchmarking, and testing them.</span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Bio: </span><span style="color:rgb(33,37,41);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Anthony (Tony) Cohn is Professor of Automated Reasoning in the School of Computer Science, University of Leeds. His current research interests range from theoretical work on spatial calculi (receiving a KR test-of-time classic paper award in 2020) and spatial ontologies, to cognitive vision, modelling spatial information in the hippocampus, and Decision Support Systems, particularly for the built environment, as well as robotics. He is Foundation Models lead at the Alan Turing Institute where he is conducting research on evaluating the capabilities of large language models, in particular with respect to commonsense reasoning, and is also a co-investigator on a project combining LLMs and probabilistic answer set programming. He is Editor-in-Chief of </span><span style="color:rgb(33,37,41);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Spatial Cognition and Computation</span><span style="color:rgb(33,37,41);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> and was previously Editor-in-chief of the </span><span style="color:rgb(33,37,41);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">AI journal</span><span style="color:rgb(33,37,41);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. He has previously been President of IJCAI, EurAI, KR inc, and AISB. He is the recipient of the 2021 Herbert A Simon Cognitive Systems Prize, and is also (uniquely) the recipient of Distinguished Service Awards from the three main international AI societies: IJCAI, AAAI and EurAI, as well as from KR Inc. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Learned Society of Wales, the AI societies AAAI, AISB, EurAI and AAIA, as well as the CORE Academy (International Core Academy of Sciences and Humanities) and the International AI Industry Alliance.</span></font></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font></span></p><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The joint AI*IA/AISB Committee of the Spotlight Seminars on AI, </font></span></div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Giuseppe De Giacomo</font></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Floriana Grasso</font></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Antonio Lieto</font></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Bertie Muller</font></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Luciano Serafini</font></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8px">-------------</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Antonio Lieto, Ph.D</font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Salerno, Italy</font></font></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Head of Cognition Interaction and Intelligent Technologies Lab (CIIT) </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><div><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Research Associate at ICAR-CNR, Palermo, Italy<br></font></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Home: <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.antoniolieto.net&source=gmail-imap&ust=1738239542000000&usg=AOvVaw19eBMk9pm7Q2pdmFoRVBNy" target="_blank">https://www.antoniolieto.net</a></font></div><div><font color="#000000">ACM Distinguished Speaker: <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://speakers.acm.org/speakers/lieto_12489&source=gmail-imap&ust=1738239542000000&usg=AOvVaw2psqaoXRxe4GBEhy9g2BCr" target="_blank">https://speakers.acm.org/speakers/lieto_12489</a> <br></font></div><div><div><br></div></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Associate Editor of Cognitive Systems Research (Elsevier)</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.journals.elsevier.com/cognitive-systems-research/editorial-board&source=gmail-imap&ust=1738239542000000&usg=AOvVaw1maN6ASnpSoxmG6Ctu37xw" target="_blank">https://www.journals.elsevier.com/cognitive-systems-research/editorial-board</a> </font></div></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><div><font color="#000000">Author of "Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds" (2021), Routledge, Taylor & Francis.</font></div><div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/dp/1138207950&source=gmail-imap&ust=1738239542000000&usg=AOvVaw1l4tjhm86XmPwAM45wn0Jj" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/1138207950</a><br></div></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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