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Mike Frank

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Cognitive scientist at Stanford. Open science advocate. Symbolic Systems Program director. Bluegrass picker, slow runner, dad. http://langcog.stanford.edu
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"[Babies] only splash about in the shallows of a fathomless ocean of language. And yet, somehow, that’s enough. From a drop, they infer the depths." To understand how children learn human language, @mcxfrank.bsky.social and colleagues studied the experience from a child's pers…

Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why technologyreview.com
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  • A pre-teen has heard about 100 million words; Meta's Llama 3.1 trained on 15 trillion tokens, roughly 150,000 times more.
  • The 2024 BabyLM champion, GPT-BERT, beat Meta's Llama 2 70B on some benchmarks despite training on 15,000 times less data.
  • Princeton's Brenden Lake trained a model on 61 hours of SAYCam egocentric video and got object recognition without innate biases.
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New blogpost: my lab's AI policies and norms. I'm trying to figure out how researchers should make use of AI to accelerate discovery without letting it replace human understanding or falling off the "slop cliff." Here are some ideas. babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/10…

My lab's AI policies and norms babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com
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By replacing sequential processing with a flexible attention mechanism, transformers allow neural networks to weigh the relevance of distant data… Transformers by Raphaël Millière https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.d3acfbfb #CognitiveScience

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🎉 CoNLL is just around the corner and will begin in t=-24h! 🎓 Stay tuned for two days full of talks, posters and keynotes by Michael C. Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social and Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social ! 📚 For more information please check out the full programme at www…

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