Princeton is hiring postdocs to investigate the relationships between LLMs and human cognition! puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply…

“LLMs are a generalized technology for translating one way of saying things into another way of saying the same thing.”

Teppo Felin & Matthias Holweg

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Wrenching news: Dan Dennett has died.

He's been a great friend and incredible inspiration for me throughout my career. I will miss him enormously.

dailynous.com/2024/04/19/dan…

Busy outside the office

“If the Wright Brothers could have used AI to guide their decision making, it's almost certain they would never have gotten off the ground. That's because … all the evidence said human flight was impossible.” — EconTalk

Good #MondayMorning , @econtalker fans.

Join Russ and Teppo Felin for a fascinating conversation on prediction and possibility: ow.ly/T5fE50Rg7lN

Remembering Daniel Kahneman (with a you-are-there account, by yours truly, of what it was like to work with him).
behavioralscientist.org/remembering-da…

My latest AI readings on the issue of whether the brain = computer; computer = brain metaphor holds (by Teppo Felin et al.) and on the dangers of anthropomorphizing AI (by @floridi and Nobre). Both papers are interesting. Eager to hear feedback from others.

My book is available now. ebook available immediately (even rumors of pirated PDFs). Hardback will ship on Nov 3 if you order now. Feedback will be much appreciated.
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🚨EXCELLENT AI PAPER ALERT: 'Theory Is All You Need: AI, Human Cognition, and Decision Making' by Teppo Felin & Matthias Holweg is all you need to read about AI today. Quotes:

'The differences between human and machine learning—when it comes to language (as well as other

On a day of unfathomable grief, with the loss of Danny Kahneman, here's a happy moment. He was so, so, so happy when Richard H Thaler got the Nobel.

We are looking to add a data scientist to the Utah Jazz Front Office. Come help us with decision making!

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Using algorithms to improve knowledge work
Journal of Operations Management
Javier Amaya & Matthias Holweg
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jo…

Interesting paper by Teppo Felin and Holweg. 'Many scholars argue that—due to human bias and bounded rationality—humans should (or will soon) be replaced by AI in situations involving high-level cognition and strategic decision making. We disagree.'
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…