PyData Tel Aviv 2025

A New Kind of Learning Systems
2025-11-05 , Red
Language: English

Large language models are amazing, but I argue that the real promise is in systems that are built around them. Such systems include---but are not limited to---what is often referred to as "Agents", and they bring with them both opportunities and non-trivial challenges.


After charting the space of LLM-based systems and establishing a framework around them, I will switch gears to discuss what I see as a huge open-frontier that is enabled by them: a new kind of learning systems, that learn not by optimizing parameters with respect to a numeric loss or reward, but rather by processing, storing, retrieving and manipulating natural language assertions.


Prior Knowledge Expected:

No previous knowledge expected

Professor at Bar Ilan University's Computer Science Department, as well as the Research Director of the Israeli branch of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence