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Attending #ICML2024 and interested in neural algorithmic reasoning? Let’s connect! This week, I'll be presenting our work on how transformers can simulate graph algorithms. We demonstrate this by handcrafting their weights to implement algorithms like Dijkstra, BFS, and DFS,

Excited to see our research (w/ Michael Inzlicht ) featured on CNN ! Grateful for the opportunity to share our insights. "The boredom scroll on socials may be making your problem worse, study says"⬇️ cnn.com/2024/08/19/hea…

In the summer of 1971, one of the most famous experiments in the history of psychology was conducted inthe Stanford Psychology Department basement. The lesson about the study, distilled, simplified, and retold in countless lectures, textbooks, documentaries, and movies, seemed

There has been an increase in reports of boredom and greater use of digital media recently. Digital media may exacerbate boredom via multiple pathways including dividing attention and reducing sense of meaning. Katy Tam Michael Inzlicht nature.com/articles/s4427…

I'm excited to share with you all that my paper on A Positive Empathy Intervention to Improve Well-being on Instagram with Michael Inzlicht and Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello has been accepted for publication at Emotion!🥳 We tested a brief intervention to increase positive #empathy and improve 1/3 📷

I finally converted. See you there!

What do you think would happen if we told people, right before using Instagram, to respond with empathy to their friends rather than engaging in social comparisons? It turns out this makes them feel better after using the app. See details below!

🚨🚨Overjoyed to announce that my paper on empathic AI has been published in the journal of Communications Psychology! I could not have done it without my amazing colleagues, Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello and Michael Inzlicht.🚨🚨 I hope you enjoy! Link below: doi.org/10.1038/s44271…

Can Large Language Models produce compassionate responses? Here, Dariya Ovsyannikova, Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello, and Michael Inzlicht found 3rd party evaluators rated AI responses to be more compassionate than those generated by humans, even expert crisis responders. nature.com/articles/s4427…

1/ New paper led by Dariya Ovsyannikova and with Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello Can AI out-empathize humans? Yes. In a new paper, participants rated AI-generated responses as more compassionate than those from regular folks and even expert crisis responders. nature.com/articles/s4427…

Want to feel better after using Instagram? Our new paper shows how. It's not about what you post, it's about how you respond to others' joy. In 4 studies (N=1327), focusing on sharing & caring about others' positive emotions improved mood & life satisfaction.

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Can neural networks perform arithmetic and instruction execution without error? We show how this can be achieved using only a logarithmic amount of training data in the input size. However, we require a sufficiently large ensemble of two-layer feedforward models, which can be

Been unusually tired with mood swings and brain fog lately. Finally got blood work done: significant B12 and iron deficiencies. Will take time to rebuild, but I'm fixable with vitamins! If you've been feeling off, this is your reminder: get your labs checked!

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions. Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased! Thread 🧵

In a new paper, we find that sycophantic #AI chatbots make people more extreme--operating like an echo chamber. Yet, people prefer sycophantic chatbots and see them as less biased. Only open-minded people prefer disagreeable chatbots.

Our new paper on how AI creates political echo chamber is free here: osf.io/preprints/psya… This paper was led by Steve Rathje and several other co-authors (Meryl Ye Laura Globig Raunak Pillai Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello)

Watched something truly special at the ballet last night and had way too many thoughts, so I wrote some of them down. My review of Procession at the National Ballet of Canada (closes Nov 8): open.substack.com/pub/vicotira/p…