Showing posts with label language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label language. Show all posts
Friday, July 05, 2024

ChatGPT as a "lab rat" for understanding how our brains process language.

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I've now read twice through a fascinating PNAS piece by Mitchell Waldrop (Open source, with useful references), and urge MindBlog reade...
Friday, June 07, 2024

Is it a fact? The epistemic force of language in news headlines.

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From Chuey et al. in PNAS (open source):   Significance Headlines are an influential source of information, especially because people oft...
Friday, April 05, 2024

Our seduction by AI’s believable human voice.

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 I want to point to an excellent New Yorker article by Patrick House titled  “ The Lifelike Illusion of A.I. ”  The article strikes home for...
Friday, March 29, 2024

How communication technology has enabled the corruption of our communication and culture .

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I pass on two striking examples from today’s New York Times, with few clips of text from each: A.I.-Generated Garbage Is Polluting Our Cultu...
Monday, March 11, 2024

How AI’s GPT engines work - Lanier’s forest and trees metaphor.

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Jaron Lanier does a piece in The New Yorker titled " How to Picture A.I. " (if you hit the paywall by clicking the link, try openi...
Friday, March 08, 2024

Explaining the evolution of gossip

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 A fascinating open source article from Pan et al. : Significance From Mesopotamian cities to industrialized nations, gossip has been at ...
Monday, December 25, 2023

Large Language Models are not yet providing theories of human language.

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 From Dentella et al. (open source): Significance The synthetic language generated by recent Large Language Models (LMs) strongly resemb...
Monday, November 27, 2023

The feasibility of artificial consciousness through the lens of neuroscience

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Some interesting perspectives from Aru, Larkum, and Shine in Trends in Neurosciences. Motivated readers can obtain a copy of the article...
Monday, August 21, 2023

Never-Ending Stories - a survival tactic for uncertain times

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I keep returning to clips of text that I abstracted from a recent piece by Venkatesh Rao . It gets more rich for me on each re-reading.  I l...
Monday, June 05, 2023

A simple heuristic for distinguishing lie from truth

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Work by Verschuere et al. shows that a simple heuristic of only judging the level of detail in the message consistently allows people to di...
Monday, May 29, 2023

To fulfill its promise, artificial intelligence needs to deepen human intelligence.

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For MindBlog readers interested in AI, I have to point to another must-read article by Ezra Klein . Below are some clips that try to communi...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Using AI to decipher words and sentences from brain scans

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Things are happening very fast in AI, as this work from Huth and his collaborators shows. Previous work has shown that speeh articulation a...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

MindBlog's seduction by AI

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I decided to drink the kool aid, go down the rabbit hole, of learning more about AI, and have ceased regular MindBlog posts. As I have been ...
Wednesday, March 01, 2023

Artificial intelligence and personhood

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MindBlog hesitates to add to the feeding frenzy of articles about LLMs (large language models) such as Open AI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft Bing’...
Monday, January 23, 2023

Our different styles of thinking.

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An interesting recent article by Joshua Rothman , the ideas editor of newyorker.com, notes several recent books that describe different styl...
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Wednesday, December 07, 2022

OpenAI’s ChatGPT answers some questions from MindBlog

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Given a recent posting in which I played with the DALL-E 2 A.I. system that generates images when you tell it what you want to see, I was...
Friday, December 02, 2022

The Z-Library Kerfuffle and the whack-a-mole problem

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Several months ago a friend told me about the Z-Library that he was using to download recently published fiction to evaluate candidates for ...
Monday, November 28, 2022

The Computational Society

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The most recent issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences presents a forum in its 25th Anniversary Series: Looking Forward. Several of the cont...
Friday, September 23, 2022

Machine learning is translating the languages of animals

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Anthes does an article on how machine learning is being used to eavesdrop on naked mole rats, fruit bats, crows and whales — and to communi...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Music training enhances auditory and linguistic processing.

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From Neves et al. :   Highlights • Systematic review and meta-analysis of neurobehavioral effects of music training.  • We ask ...