For those at ICML Conference rather than CogSci, there is also a chance to think about LLMs and Cognition!

The performance of Deep Neural Networks can be assessed on the results of their computations – understanding internal mechanisms which generate those results is much more difficult. Although attempts have been made to interpret these mechanisms, Raphaël Millière of Macquarie

My latest column for Science: "The Turing Test and our shifting conceptions of intelligence". science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Really excited to share that I'm hiring for a Research Scientist position in our team! If you're interested in the kind of cognitively-oriented work we've been doing on learning & generalization, data properties, representations, LMs, or agents, please check it out!

Just a reminder during syllabus season that if you want to teach students about philosophical issues in machine learning, Raphaël Millière and I have you covered... First, Deep Learning: a Philosophical Introduction compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… 1/3

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My own take on this debate re our recent PNAS letter and the DGL response: there are important and deep questions raised about the difference between models’ abilities to do tasks and their knowledge of language. Thread.