conjugate reinforcement learning is a blast!

Cool new paper in Open Mind showing that even preschoolers can understand abstract metaphors

A truly wonderful event - I'm so pleased and honored

My contribution on Causal Learning to the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science - already shaping up to be a definitive resource, with entries from an impressive array of leaders in the field. Check it out! oecs.mit.edu/pub/i1om74mo/r…

My Rumelhart cognitive science prize talk was all about children and grandchildren both biological and academic. So here I am with the medal and both varieties of offspring, extremely proud of all three!

Very nice summary from Natalia Velez of my talk , which should be posted at some point...

New paper: KiVA: Kid-inspired Visual Analogies for Testing Large Multimodal Models We present KiVA, a simple benchmark for visual analogies that even 3-year-olds can pass, but LMMs cannot. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2407.17773 Benchmark: github.com/ey242/KiVA 1/7

This is a really terrific book by Peter Godfrey-Smith - highly recommend it

My latest talk on multiple intelligences and Large Language Models as cultural technologies. youtube.com/watch?v=qoCl_O…

🚨Brilliant talk on human and artificial intelligence - on what is the question and what human culture is the answer to. And WOW, Socrates was equally concerned about written ‘hallucinations’ being widely generated and archived in libraries (just like LLMs today)!

AI needs a mother. Why? Check out the transcript Public Books of a conversation featuring fmr CASBS fellow & current CASBS research affiliate Alison Gopnik & sci-fi writer Ted Chiang. Then listen to them in the full CASBS podcast episode...😏

Oh hey, our new paper is out! Led by Katarina Begus, we explored 16m olds reasoning. Infant's theta response discerned between predicted confounded & uncon events, suggesting that infants can strategically direct attention to events that are likely to reveal informative evidence.

📢 Keynote speakers for NeurIPS Conference 2024 have now been confirmed! 📢 We are ✨ excited ✨ to welcome Sepp Hochreiter, Danica Kragic , Lidong Zhou, Alison Gopnik , Rosalind Picard, Arnaud Doucet, and Fei-Fei Li as speakers this year!

A great piece by Ted Chiang about Generative AI and art.

Very pleased to be part of this - should be fascinating

Really excellent special Issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science on Algorithms in our Lives. Includes our article (Yiu et al.) on Large AI Models as cultural technologies and why they can't do what kids do. journals.sagepub.com/toc/ppsa/19/5