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Alison Gopnik

236 trust researcher @alisongopnik.bsky.social · 41,006 followers
Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and psychologist at Berkeley, author of The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter and grandmother of six.
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Two new preprints from the lab, First up, causal exploration in humans and LLM's. arxiv.org Human Adults and LLMs as Scientists: Who Benefits from Active Exploration?

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View on Bluesky · ♥ 14 ↻ 2 ↩ 1 · 5 from the directory shared this · 21d ago

An excellent thoughtful and clear review of the state of AI. yalereview.org/article/mela...

Melanie Mitchell: The Dangerous Unknowns at the Heart of LLMs yalereview.org
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  • AI systems excel on some tasks while failing surprisingly on similar ones, a pattern Mitchell calls 'jagged intelligence.'
  • Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI cofounder, is quoted saying LLMs 'generalize dramatically worse than people' in a way that is 'very fundamental.'
  • Mitchell says AI researchers, herself included, are still struggling to design effective evaluation methods for LLMs' uneven capabilities.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 28 ↻ 5 ↩ 0 · 5 from the directory shared this · 29d ago

So pleased that our paper on empowerment and causal models is out and freely available as part of this impressive special issue on world models and AI, with Melanie Mitchell, Josh Tenenbaum, Tom Griffiths and many other stars. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article...

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View on Bluesky · ♥ 105 ↻ 34 ↩ 0 · 3 from the directory shared this · 53d ago

Here is the specific link to our paper with Eunice Yiu, Shiry Ginosar and Kelsey Allen, how to construct causal models through intrinsically motivated action, something kids do and LLMs don't. The whole issue on world models is very much worth reading. royalsocietypublishing.o…

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View on Bluesky · ♥ 33 ↻ 10 ↩ 0 · 2 from the directory shared this · 52d ago

One of the best podcasts I've ever done. Really deep smart conversation with Chris Hayes - why there's no such thing as general intelligence, AI's as cultural technologies not people, what kids can tell us about AI, and what we can do about it all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQWD...

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