Starting summer 2023, I will be an Assistant Professor NYU Psychology. I will be recruiting PhD students this Fall, so if you have motivated students interested in language (in all its flavors) and the brain, please send them my way!!

As AIs improve at persuasion & argumentation, how do we ensure that they help us seek truth vs. just sounding convincing? In human experiments, we validate debate as a truth-seeking process, showing that it may soon be needed for supervising AI. Paper: github.com/julianmichael/…

🧵Announcing GPQA, a graduate-level “Google-proof” Q&A benchmark designed for scalable oversight! w/ Julian Michael, Sam Bowman GPQA is a dataset of *really hard* questions that PhDs with full access to Google can’t answer. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2311.12022

[Monday evening short video] Sharing a summary of two amazing LLM benchmarking papers published just last week: - GAIA: the General AI Assistant benchmark (disclaimer: I'm a co-author with amazing co-authors Grégoire Mialon Clémentine Fourrier 🍊 Craig Yann LeCun Thomas Scialom) -

Proudly presenting Dr Julien Dirani, who has just successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “Investigating the Interplay Between Conceptual and Lexical Processes in Language”!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Julien Dirani

#JNeurosci: Julien Dirani and Liina Pylkkanen explored how our brains access semantic knowledge from different types of stimuli, such as pictures and words. Results suggest that our brains store concepts in a rich, multi-faceted way, beyond just semantic representations. NYU Psychology