Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 3: What kind of intelligence is an LLM?

Guests:

Tomer Ullman, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
Murray Shanahan, Professor of Cognitive Robotics, Department of Computing, Imperial College London; Principal Research Scientist, Google DeepMind

Hosts: Abha Eli Phoboo & Melanie Mitchell

Producer: Katherine Moncure

Podcast theme music by: Mitch Mignano

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Books:

Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
The Technological Singularity by Murray Shanahan
Embodiment and the inner life: Cognition and Consciousness in the Space of Possible Minds by Murray Shanahan
Solving the Frame Problem by Murray Shanahan
Search, Inference and Dependencies in Artificial Intelligence by Murray Shanahan and Richard Southwick

Talks:

Papers & Articles:

“A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled,” in New York Times (Feb 16, 2023)
“Bayesian Models of Conceptual Development: Learning as Building Models of the World,” in Annual Review of Developmental Psychology Volume 2 (Oct 26, 2020), doi.org/10.1146/annurev-devpsych-121318-084833
“Comparing the Evaluation and Production of Loophole Behavior in Humans and Large Language Models,” in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (December 2023), doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.264
“Role play with large language models,” in Nature (Nov 8, 2023), doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06647-8
“Large Language Models Fail on Trivial Alterations to Theory-of-Mind Tasks,” arXiv (v5, March 14, 2023), doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2302.08399
“Talking about Large Language Models,” in Communications of the ACM (Feb 12, 2024),
“Simulacra as Conscious Exotica,” in arXiv (v2, July 11, 2024), doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2402.12422

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