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Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence Lab

Using Philosophy to Understand Virtual Spaces and Machine Learning Processes

What We Do

Blending the Philosophical with the Computational

The Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence (VRAI) Lab is run by the Department of Philosophy at Purdue University. Headed by Dr. Javier Gomez-Lavin, the lab utilizes high-end computers to both train and analyze machine learning algorithms, such as LLMs, as well as virtual reality software packages and headsets to study perception and cognition in virtual spaces. The VRAI Lab has a research focus in the conceptual, cognitive, epistemic, and moral questions that undergird the accelerating development of tomorrow's technologies.

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Interested in doing research at the VRAI or PuNCs Labs?

Our Schedule

PuNCs Live! Speaker Series

2024

Laura Soter, "Investigating Children's Theory of Belief Change"

John Dyck, "Simple Beauty"

CL@I Speaker Series

2024

Daniel Herrmann, "Belief Representations of LLMs"

Other Associated Events

2024

First Symposium on Ethical, Social and Policy issues in HPC (ESP-HPC24)

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News

Some recent things coming out of the Purdue Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence Lab

Spring 2024

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