Showing posts with label AI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AI. Show all posts
Friday, June 27, 2025

Take caution in using LLMs as human surrogates

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Gao et al. point to problems in using LLM's as surrogates for or simulating human behavior in research (motivated readers can obtain a P...
Monday, June 23, 2025

MIT study - Our brains can accumulate cognitive debt by using AI for writing tasks

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I pass on the abstract of a multiauthor work from MIT. Undergrads, EEG caps on, wrote three 20-minute essays. Those who leaned on GPT-4o sh...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

AI ‘The Illusion of Thinking’

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  I want to pass on this interesting piece by Christopher Mims in todays Wall Street Journal: A primary requirement for being a leader in ...
Friday, June 06, 2025

Benefits and dangers of anthropomorphic conversational agents

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Peter et al. offer an interesting open source essay. They ask: "should we lean into the human-like abilities, or should we aim to dehu...
Friday, May 30, 2025

Socially sensitive autonomous vehicles?

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Driving around in the Old West Austin neighborhood where I live I am increasingly spooked (the uncanny valley effect) at four-way stop signs...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI

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 From Reif et al. (open source) , systematic observations that confirm my own experience, Significance As AI tools become increasingly prev...
Friday, May 23, 2025

A new route towards dystopia:? Sonifying tactile interactions and their underlying emotions to allow ‘social touch.’

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Our Tech-World overlords may be using work like the following from de Lagarde et al. to find ways for us to avoid requiring the evolved su...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Why does AI hinder democratization?

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Here is the abstract from the open source article of Chu et al in PNAS:  This paper examines the relationship between democratization and t...
Monday, May 19, 2025

AI is not your friend.

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I want to pass on clips from Mike Caulfield's piece in The Atlantic on how "opinionated" chatbots destroy AI's potential,...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Our human consciousness is a 'Controlled Hallucination' and AI can never achieve it.

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I want to suggest that readers have a look at an engaging popular article by Darren Orf that summarizes the ideas of Anil Seth. Seth is a n...
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Saturday, April 26, 2025

Does Language in our head have a Mind of Its Own?

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I pass on a brief opinion From Elan Barenholtz's Substack. He is an Assoc. Prof. of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Rato...
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Thursday, April 24, 2025

Carole Cadwalladr - This is what a digital coup looks like.

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Monday, April 07, 2025

Mastering diverse control tasks through world models

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Hafner et al. offer an amazing open source article that presents an algorithm s mimicking the way in which our brains actually solves probl...
Tuesday, April 01, 2025

An example of AI representing concepts outside the current sphere of human knowledge that are teachable to human experts.

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An open source article from the latest PNAS from Schut et al. : Significance   As AI systems become more capable, they may internally repre...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Deric and DeepSeek R1 on the enteroceptive self in a small world - taking refuge in troubled times

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This post on an exchange with DeepSeek R1 is a followup on my previous post describing the Chat GPT 4o response to some of my idea fragmen...
Friday, March 14, 2025

Reflections on The Predictive Self.

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I pass on another interaction with ChatGPT 4o that has amazed me, Below  is my prompt, followed by its response. (Anthropic Claude.ai, Perpl...