So about the 'Large Language Models Learned Theory-of-Mind(?)' discussion: arxiv.org/pdf/2302.08399… Has ToM emerged in current LLMs? I doubt it.

Just came across this recent paper by Rachel Gibbons - a functional account of mental illness as arrested mourning.

The definition of mental health has been widened so much that it’s now almost meaningless | Martha Gill theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Inspired to hear Suzanne Brown and Wojciech Gierynski @NAViGOCARE speak at UCL today about setting up a therapeutic community in Lincolnshire for people with complex emotional needs #moreofthis

These are uncertain times, so enjoy life while you can! In this new paper with Michael; mastodon: @[email protected] Kyo Iigaya Geert-Jan Will Bastien Blain Tobias Hauser and others we model delay discounting as sensitivity to volatility in future reward value. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2023-…

‘GPT-4 was running in a mode where it would think out loud… It thought out loud: “I should not tell it that I’m a robot. I should make up a reason I can’t solve the Captcha.” It said to the tasker: “No, I have a visual impairment.”’ theguardian.com/technology/202…

There’s been a real buzz this week at the first #cpconf2023 in Dublin. A threshold moment for the field. Thanks so much @clairegillanTCD Sonia Bishop Rick Adams 🇺🇦@drrickadams.bsky.social Xiaosi Gu Tobias Hauser Robb Rutledge Quentin Huys for making it happen!

Innovative work from Nina Rouhani showing how the pandemic distorted our autobiographical memories

From one extreme to the other… in this new paper in Psychological Review with Michael; mastodon: @[email protected] Ryan Smith (@rssmith.bsky.social) Edda Bilek Jenifer Siegel on polarisation, we model beliefs that other people are either ‘all good’ or ‘all bad’ psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2024-…

A much needed appeal from ⁦Rachel Gibbons⁩ and colleagues to rediscover the psychological in psychiatry: “who would want to be a psychiatrist if we strip away the meanings and connections in the stories our patients bring us”? cambridge.org/core/journals/…

🌟New paper online in Trends in Cognitive Sciences with Angela Radulescu & Kara Emery 🌟 We review work taking an approach we refer to as "naturalistic reinforcement learning", which uses more naturalistic approaches to study learning and decision-making. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

1/20 It took us a week to formulate this statement. We are a movement of Jewish and Arab women with diverse opinions. We found ourselves in a threatening, horrifying reality. Words can't convey our past week's experience. We're searching for the right words to share.

Thanks to The Guardian for inviting me on their "Science Weekly" podcast. Really enjoyed this discussion on opportunities and challenges of applying AI language models to psychiatry, mentalhealth and cognitive neuroscience.

Trending in #MultidisciplinaryPsychology: ooir.org/index.php?fiel… 1) How subjective idea valuation energizes & guides creative idea generation 2) Unprompted thought & affective well-being 3) Enhancing mental health practitioners’ self-rated clinical competencies to work with

Looks set to be a thought provoking day on a topic doctors often don’t discuss: countertransference as Freud first intended. Like it or not, we bring our own disturbance into the consulting room. Bring yours on 1st November.

Much food for thought today at the RCPsych about what it means to be a patient or a doctor, what caring and being cared for involve. rcpsych.ac.uk/events/confere…