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This week we are excited to host Peter West from @cs.ubc.ca who will talk about “Mapping the (Jagged) Landscape of LLM Capabilities.”
Screenshot showing the title and abstract of talk by Peter West. The text says: "Title: Mapping the (Jagged) Landscape of LLM Capabilities Abstract: One key missing piece for the broad adoption of LLMs is intuition, specifically, human intuition about when and how models will succeed or fail across the diverse tasks we might apply them to. Your LLM might write a well-reasoned essay on 14th-century theology, but does that mean it can accurately answer questions on the same topic? This talk will focus on one aspect of my research, which is the characterization of model capabilities to begin to develop these intuitions. I will discuss recent projects that try to identify where these capabilities break down, with a particular focus on high information examples which will necessitate new hypotheses of how exactly artificial intelligence functions. Speaker info: Peter West is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia, broadly working on the capabilities and limits of LLMs. For example: the divergence of AI from human intuitions of intelligence, unpredictability and creativity in models, and studying LLMs with a non-interventional natural sciences lens. Peter completed his PhD at the University of Washington, Paul G School of Computer Science and Engineering. He completed a postdoc at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. His work has been recognized with best, outstanding, and spotlight papers in NLP and AI conferences."
February 2, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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Thankful to CBC for capturing my recent thoughts on empathy, robotics and AI www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Can you teach a robot empathy? This SFU researcher is trying to find out | CBC News
Dr. Angelica Lim, an associate professor of computing science at Simon Fraser University, leads a team that is trying to make robots more empathetic so humans are able to interact with them more seaml...
www.cbc.ca
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM