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The Krononaut Moon Project 🌑<p>&nbsp;<br><a href="https://me.dm/tags/Apes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apes</span></a> point out hidden treats only when <a href="https://me.dm/tags/humans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humans</span></a> are <a href="https://me.dm/tags/unaware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unaware</span></a> of their <a href="https://me.dm/tags/location" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>location</span></a>. <br>❛❛ It's a <a href="https://me.dm/tags/sign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sign</span></a> of a <a href="https://me.dm/tags/cognitive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cognitive</span></a> ability called <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Theory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Theory</span></a> of <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Mind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mind</span></a>. ❜❜</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPD9jqXEv7Y" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=kPD9jqXEv7</span><span class="invisible">Y</span></a> 2025 Feb 04 <br>🔗 <a href="https://www.SmithsonianMag.com/smart-news/when-bonobos-know-what-you-dont-theyll-tell-you-its-a-sign-of-a-cognitive-ability-called-theory-of-mind-180985991/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">SmithsonianMag.com/smart-news/</span><span class="invisible">when-bonobos-know-what-you-dont-theyll-tell-you-its-a-sign-of-a-cognitive-ability-called-theory-of-mind-180985991/</span></a> 2025 Feb 05 <br>🔗 <a href="https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_o</span><span class="invisible">f_mind</span></a> … <a href="https://me.dm/tags/TheoryOfMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfMind</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Community</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/TimeTravel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTravel</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/primates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>primates</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/mammalian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mammalian</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intelligence</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/interspecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interspecies</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/communitication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communitication</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Kronodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kronodon</span></a></p>
Darrin L Rogers<p>One of my dear friends and an excellent researcher in <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/bilingual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bilingual</span></a> development and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/TheoryOfMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfMind</span></a> just published a paper!</p><p><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0885201424001254" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/abs/pii/S0885201424001254</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/behavior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>behavior</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academic</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/professor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>professor</span></a></p>
skua<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://disabled.social/@3TomatoesShort" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>3TomatoesShort</span></a></span> <br>2/2<br>It appears that some of these groupings find it very difficult to see things from the perspective of some of the other groups and try to declare that their approach is the only correct one.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SituationallyDefined" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SituationallyDefined</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheoryOfMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfMind</span></a></p><p>Disclosure: I'm in the DisappointedUser grouping.</p>
PLOS Biology<p>Are problems with <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/TheoryofMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryofMind</span></a> a direct consequence of aberrant <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/dopamine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dopamine</span></a> signaling? @BiancaASchuster @Jennifer_L_Cook &amp;co show that the D2 antagonist haloperidiol reduces the accuracy with which healthy adults attribute mental states <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PLOSBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PLOSBiology</span></a> <a href="https://plos.io/3KHbXr5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">plos.io/3KHbXr5</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
AnthonyA large language model being trained is "experiencing" a Skinner box. It receives a sequence of inscrutable symbols from outside its box and is tasked with outputting an inscrutable symbol from its box. It is rewarded or punished according to inscrutable, external forces. Nothing it can experience within the box can be used to explain any of this.<br><br>If you placed a newborn human child into the same situation an LLM experiences during training and gave them access to nothing else but this inscrutable-symbol-shuffling context, the child would become feral. They would not develop a theory of mind or anything else resembling what we think of when we think of human-level intelligence or cognition. In fact, evidence suggests that if the child spent enough time being raised in a context like that, <i>they would never be able to develop full natural language competence ever</i>. It's very likely the child's behavior would make no sense whatsoever to us, and our behavior would make no sense whatsoever to them. OK maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration--I don't know enough about human development to speak with such certainty--but I think it's not controversial to claim that the adult who emerged from such a repulsive experiment would bear very little resemblance to what we think of as an adult human being with recognizable behavior.<br><br>The very notion is so deeply unethical and repellent we'd obviously never do anything remotely like this. But I think that's an obvious tell, maybe so obvious it's easily overlooked.<br><br>If the only creature we're aware of that we can say with certainty is capable of developing human-level intelligence, or theory of mind, or language competence, could not develop those capacities when experiencing what an LLM experiences, why on Earth would anyone believe that a <i>computer program</i> could?<br><br>Yes, of course neural networks and other computer programs behave differently from human beings, and perhaps they have some capacity to transcend the sparsity and lack of depth of the context they experience in a Skinner-box-like training environment. But think about it: this does not pass a basic smell test. Nobody's doing the hard work to demonstrate that neural networks have this mysterious additional capacity. If they were and they were succeeding at all we'd be hearing about it daily through the usual hype channels because that'd be a Turing-award-caliber discovery, maybe even a Nobel-prize-caliber one. It would would also be an extraordinarily profitable capability. Yet in reality nobody's really acknowledging what I just spelled out above. Instead, they're throwing these things into the world and doing (what I think are) bad faith demonstrations of LLMs solving human tests, and then claiming this proves the LLMs have "theory of mind" or "sparks of general intelligence" or that they can do science experiments or write articles or who knows what else. In the absence of tangible results, it's quite literally magical thinking to assert neural networks have this capacity that even human beings lack.<br><br><a href="https://buc.ci?t=ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=agi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AGI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=artificialgeneralintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArtificialGeneralIntelligence</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=generativeai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=largelanguagemodels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LargeLanguageModels</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=llms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=gpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GPT</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=chatgpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=theoryofmind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheoryOfMind</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=artificialferalintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArtificialFeralIntelligence</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=largelanguagemagic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LargeLanguageMagic</a><br>
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundayMorningRead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundayMorningRead</span></a> </p><p>Conscious AI Is the Second-Scariest Kind<br>A cutting-edge theory of mind suggests a new type of doomsday scenario<br><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/ai-consciousness-science-fiction/677659/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/</span><span class="invisible">2024/03/ai-consciousness-science-fiction/677659/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consciousness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KarlFriston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KarlFriston</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheoryOfMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfMind</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/entropy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>entropy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeEnergyPrinciple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeEnergyPrinciple</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeEnergyMinimization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeEnergyMinimization</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surprisal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surprisal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IIT</span></a></p>
Corrado Corradi-Dell'Acqua<p>📢 Check our last results 📢 Induction of an emotional response can influence relevant portions of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/theoryofmind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theoryofmind</span></a> networks for evaluating others' <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/affective" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>affective</span></a> states, by Emilie Qiao-Tasserit and Patrik Vuilleumier <a href="https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/19/1/nsae016/7619657" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">academic.oup.com/scan/article/</span><span class="invisible">19/1/nsae016/7619657</span></a> <br> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/neuroscience" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>neuroscience</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/fmri" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fmri</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/unigenews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>unigenews</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/cogsci" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cogsci</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/cognition" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cognition</span></a></span> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/cimec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cimec</span></a></p>
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.<p>Learning a lot from <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/NeuroDiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeuroDiving</span></a>, a podcast about "neurodivergence" —&nbsp;and I'm only about two episodes in! </p><p><a href="https://neurodiving.fm/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">neurodiving.fm/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/CogSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CogSci</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Psychology</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/PhilosophyOfMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhilosophyOfMind</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/neurodivergence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neurodivergence</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autism</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/asbergers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asbergers</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/theoryOfMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theoryOfMind</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/intentionalStance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intentionalStance</span></a></p>
earthling<p>The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality</p><p>A brilliant new theory of the mind that upends our understanding of how the brain interacts with the world.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonfiction</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheoryOfMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfMind</span></a></p>
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️<p>[thread] LLM, Theory of mind</p><p>Unveiling Theory of Mind in Large Language Models: Parallel to Single Neurons in the Human Brain<br><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.01660" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2309.01660</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>* hidden embeddings (artificial neurons) LLM exhibit sig. responsiveness to either T/F belief trials<br>* suggest ability to represent another's perspective</p><p>Theory of mind: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_o</span><span class="invisible">f_mind</span></a><br>* psychology: refers to capacity to understand other people by ascribing mental states to them</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LargeLanguageModels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LargeLanguageModels</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheoryOfmind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfmind</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biomimicry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biomimicry</span></a></p>
Marilyn C | 🦝 🌱 ✏️ 🎭<p>A little light Sunday reading.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Animals</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/AnimalCognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnimalCognition</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/AnimalMinds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnimalMinds</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/TheoryOfMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfMind</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Routledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Routledge</span></a></p>
Kristoffer Lawson<p>In 25 minutes we are having an open meeting on consciousness that you are more than welcome to join, with <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ninokadic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ninokadic</span></a></span> (PhD from King's College London, hopefully he's still jumping in :D). </p><p>The link is: <a href="https://meet.google.com/oho-qerx-upx" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">meet.google.com/oho-qerx-upx</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://attractive.space/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://attractive.space/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consciousness</span></a> <a href="https://attractive.space/tags/theoryofmind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theoryofmind</span></a> <a href="https://attractive.space/tags/cognitivescience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cognitivescience</span></a></p>
Philipp Kanske<p>New paper out on "Interactions within the social brain: Co-activation and connectivity among networks enabling <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/empathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>empathy</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/TheoryOfMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfMind</span></a>"<br>Really great work by Lara Maliske in collaboration with MatthiasSchurz <br><a href="https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1geBIY3M3eDUg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">authors.elsevier.com/c/1geBIY3</span><span class="invisible">M3eDUg</span></a></p>
Jesús Nieto<p>How NOT to test GPT-3. 🤦‍♀️ <br>"In cognitive psychology experiments, it’s helpful to reuse standard examples. It allows you to compare your results against established results, and; you can be pretty certain that the three-year olds you are testing have not read the papers by Permer, Leekham, and Wimmer, or heard of the results. But in testing AIs, it is a really bad idea."<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LanguageModels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LanguageModels</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ToM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheoryOfMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfMind</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GPT3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GPT3</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://sigmoid.social/@garymarcus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>garymarcus</span></a></span> <a href="https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/how-not-to-test-gpt-3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">garymarcus.substack.com/p/how-</span><span class="invisible">not-to-test-gpt-3</span></a></p>
Boris Steipe<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@dgolumbia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dgolumbia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://sigmoid.social/@garymarcus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>garymarcus</span></a></span> </p><p>David -</p><p>I don't think that Michael Kosinski is even close to suggesting that the ability to infer unobserved states is mind is in itself a form of consciousness.</p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/SentientSyllabus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SentientSyllabus</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/TheoryOfMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfMind</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a></p>
Boris Steipe<p>A paper on arXiv finds that an emergent ability to solve Theory-of-Mind (ToM) tasks, in ChatGPT (Thanks <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@kcarruthers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kcarruthers</span></a></span>). Such emergent behaviour is particularly interesting because it has not been built into the algorithm by design. </p><p><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>I find particularly intriguing (although the authors don't discuss that point) how beliefs change simply with the length of the conversation, even when no new facts are added. The philosopher Paul Grice stated four maxims of communication: quantity, quality, relation, and manner; aspects that allow speakers and listeners to establish contextual information _implicitly_. It is intriguing to think that this need to evaluate implicit context is a necessary condition for natural communication, and that this is the stimulus for ToM emergence.</p><p>I'm intrigued - but not totally surprised. The ability of LLMs to pass the "Winograd Schema Challenge" already showed that there is something going on. Example: </p><p>Human: <br>(1) The cat ate the mouse, it was tasty. Who was tasty: the cat or the mouse?<br>(2) The cat ate the mouse, it was hungry. Who was hungry: the cat or the mouse?</p><p>AI:<br>(1) The mouse was tasty.<br>(2) The cat was hungry.</p><p>... and you can easily try that for yourself.</p><p>That paper is here:<br><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02387" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2201.02387</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/SentientSyllabus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SentientSyllabus</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/TheoryOfMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfMind</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Mind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mind</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Intelligence</span></a></p>
plinth<p>And I fully expect that to happen again. Why?<br>Well, she's 19 and we're pretty sure that she doesn't have <a href="https://home.social/tags/TheoryOfMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfMind</span></a>. At least not particularly well-developed. And it's unlikely that she will develop it.<br>I'm still puzzled as to what she was thinking? I don't think it was resentment/frustration - she was having a pretty good day. My best guess is just she saw the opportunity and thought it was funny.<br>4/</p>
Prof. Dr. Louisa Kulke<p>Social situations: In <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/social" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>social</span></a> situations, people behave very differently than when they are on their own (e.g. in front of the TV or in the lab). We compare human <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/behaviour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>behaviour</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/brain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brain</span></a> activity in social situations with classic non-social lab situations. <br>We also investigate whether the ability to attribute beliefs to others <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/TheoryOfMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfMind</span></a> is related to our social behaviour and how it can reliably be measured</p>
Matt Slocombe<p>Lots of great talks at the <a href="http://www.analogicalminds.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="">analogicalminds.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> seminar this term - you can find all the recordings in the thread below. Back in January with a new series of talks exploring the analogical core of cognition!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/cognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cognition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>development</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/analogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>analogy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/reasoning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reasoning</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/similarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>similarity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/metaphor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metaphor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/categories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>categories</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/generalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>generalization</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/TheoryofMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryofMind</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/RL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/STEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>STEM</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/cogsci" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cogsci</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/cognition" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cognition</span></a></span></p>
Ted Underwood<p>I don't care much about board games, but I care a lot about <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/TheoryOfMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfMind</span></a>, and <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Cicero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cicero</span></a> looks like an initial step in that direction?<br><a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade9097" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc</span><span class="invisible">e.ade9097</span></a></p>