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Researcher with public evidence across NLP & language, AI research.
There is a great deal of interest in whether LLMs challenge Chomsky’s claim that human language acquisition requires some sort of innate inductive bias (e.g., some sort of universal grammar). aclanthology.org/2020.coling-... pemt.ru/wp-content/u... doi.org/10.1037/rev0...
(4) Friday night poster session, Cameron Jones presenting his work with me, Agnese Lombardi, and Ben Bergen on LLMs playing the tangram game with with humans and each other, and comparing what kind of conventions emerge. arxiv.org/html/2602.08...
(3) Also on Thursday I'll be at a poster on work with Philosopher @danieldrucker.bsky.social where we had LLMs do a bit of philosophy: iteratively playing the "counterexample game" by coming up with definitions for concepts and iteratively poking holes in them. arxiv.org/abs/2…
(2) Come see @sashaboguraev.bsky.social (who will be in rio as well) on Saturday presenting our artificial neural take (also with @qyao.bsky.social) on a disjunction puzzle re the non-redundancy of "She will go to France or Spain, or perhaps to Germany or France." arxiv.org/ab…
The history of sampling techniques is certainly interesting. And I loved Ettinger and others showing BERT liked "A robin is not a [bird]" since bird was salient in context. arxiv.org/pdf/1907.13528. But models got better as things like post-training steer them out of dumb repe…
The full BBS treatment from me and @futrell.bsky.social on "How linguistics learned to stop worrying and love the LMs" is now out, with all the commentaries and our response. If you "Save PDF", it will give you the whole target article + commentary + response pdf: www.cambridg…
My commentary on @kmahowald.bsky.social & @futrell.bsky.social's excellent BBS paper on the relevance and significance of LLMs for linguistics is now out, along with many other peer commentaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (preprint to follow)
There is a great deal of interest in whether LLMs challenge Chomsky’s claim that human language acquisition requires some sort of innate inductive bias (e.g., some sort of universal grammar). aclanthology.org/2020.coling-... pemt.ru/wp-content/u... doi.org/10.1037/rev0...
Very happy to see this out: @bbunzeck.bsky.social, Sina Zarrieß, Elena Lieven and I have commented on @futrell.bsky.social & @kmahowald.bsky.social's excellent and thought-provoking BBS target article on LLMs and linguistics. I also enjoyed reading the other commentaries a lot!
en route to Rio for CogSci today! Thread on stuff to check out for those in Rio. (1) I'll talk Thursday in the symposium on "(In)efficiency in Language" and will make an attempt to connect work our group's work on linguistic efficiency with our work on neural interpretability.
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