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Shared emphasis Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science - Computational Brain & Behavior Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings Critical AI Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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Established AI research Research 9d ago
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AI theoretical tool cognitive science paper

Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science - Computational Brain & Behavior

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Iris van Rooij, Nicole Rust
“In 2023, someone asked ChatGPT to give a list of counter arguments to the preprint version of this paper, and the list of arguments was clearly based on my previous work, and not on the paper itself. The paper uses a very different kind of argument, but thi…” evidence ↗
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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Nicole Rust Abstract Tesseract
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“In 2023, someone asked ChatGPT to give a list of counter arguments to the preprint version of this paper, and the list of arguments was clearly based on my previous work, and not on the paper itself. The paper uses a very different kind of argument, but thi…”

6 experts discussed this · 119 posts
Iris van Rooij: What, in your opinion, is the strongest anti-computationalist argument out there?
Iris van Rooij: Here, by 'computationalism' I mean the metatheoretical thesis that cognition is, or can be understood as, a form of computation. See eg link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Iris van Rooij: Was not rhetorical, but I wonder if question was understood? bsky.app/profile/iris...
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Established AI research Research 19d ago
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logical inference brains neural networks paper

On Logical Inference over Brains, Behaviour, and Artificial Neural Networks - Computational Brain & Behavior

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Olivia Guest
“no worries on pedantry, I write papers on this doi.org/10.1007/s421...” evidence ↗
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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest

“no worries on pedantry, I write papers on this doi.org/10.1007/s421...”

4 experts discussed this · 247 posts
Olivia Guest: exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!
Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈: exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!
Olivia Guest: You sound daft right now. Worry about that. Don't worry about me.
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Established AI field signal Resource 5d ago
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OSF

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Olivia Guest
“OK, maybe these are useful for your exploration. Hopefully, but please ignore of course if not. I'll link you directly to where there is the full paper and related threads as much as possible. 1/ PDF: doi.org/10.31234/osf... bsky.app/profile/oliv...” evidence ↗
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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest

“OK, maybe these are useful for your exploration. Hopefully, but please ignore of course if not. I'll link you directly to where there is the full paper and related threads as much as possible. 1/ PDF: doi.org/10.31234/osf... bsky.app/profile/oliv...”

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Olivia Guest: ? bsky.app/profile/eryk...
Olivia Guest: What exactly are you looking for if useful I can suggest readings? Especially if you're interested in academic work.
Olivia Guest: OK, maybe these are useful for your exploration. Hopefully, but please ignore of course if not. I'll link you directly to where there is the full paper and related threads as much as possible. 1/ P…
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critical AI essay olivia science

Critical AI

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Anthony Moser
“@olivia.science of course has a great collection including a lot of her own research olivia.science/ai/” evidence ↗
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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Anthony Moser Pavel Jed Brown
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“All my resources are in my pinned post / here olivia.science/ai but perhaps most useful for OP is this? Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/2”

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“@olivia.science of course has a great collection including a lot of her own research olivia.science/ai/”

2 experts discussed this · 9 posts
Olivia Guest: There's no engineering reason for human shaped robots other than that one actually. And there's so many engineering reasons against. The sooner people realise it has always been true & sexist (oliv…
Olivia Guest: Also see: bsky.app/profile/oliv... 2/
Thomas Dietterich: My colleague Jonathan Hurst (at Agility Robotics) has a long list of reasons why humanoid robots make sense. For years he was opposed to humanoids, but he found that for lifting and carrying loads,…
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5 experts · 18 posts · 15d ago
Thomas Dietterich Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Emile van Krieken Dr J. Rosenbaum
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“As an ML researcher, when I say we don’t understand why these work, I mean that we lack a mathematical theory that explains when the models generalize and when they do not. This is quite different …” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 2 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Iris van Rooij: Preprinted! Been working on this for ~1 year w wonderful coauthors Nancy & Mark: > Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno... …
Olivia Guest: Yeah I quote that
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