Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 3: What kind of intelligence is an LLM?

Guests: 

• Tomer Ullman, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
• Murray Shanahan, Professor of Cognitive Robotics, Department of Computing, Imperial College London; Principal Research Scientist, Google DeepMind

Hosts: Abha Eli Phoboo & Melanie Mitchell

Producer: Katherine Moncure

Podcast theme music by: Mitch Mignano

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More info:

• Tutorial: Fundamentals of Machine Learning
• Lecture: Artificial Intelligence
• SFI programs: Education

Books: 

• Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
• The Technological Singularity by Murray Shanahan
• Embodiment and the inner life: Cognition and Consciousness in the Space of Possible Minds by Murray Shanahan
• Solving the Frame Problem by Murray Shanahan
• Search, Inference and Dependencies in Artificial Intelligence by Murray Shanahan and Richard Southwick

Talks: 

• The Future of Artificial Intelligence by Melanie Mitchell
• Artificial intelligence: A brief introduction to AI by Murray Shanahan

Papers & Articles:

• “A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled,” in New York Times (Feb 16, 2023)
• “Bayesian Models of Conceptual Development: Learning as Building Models of the World,” in Annual Review of Developmental Psychology Volume 2 (Oct 26, 2020), doi.org/10.1146/annurev-devpsych-121318-084833
• “Comparing the Evaluation and Production of Loophole Behavior in Humans and Large Language Models,” in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (December 2023), doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.264
• “Role play with large language models,” in Nature (Nov 8, 2023), doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06647-8
• “Large Language Models Fail on Trivial Alterations to Theory-of-Mind Tasks,” arXiv (v5, March 14, 2023), doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2302.08399
• “Talking about Large Language Models,” in Communications of the ACM (Feb 12, 2024), 
• “Simulacra as Conscious Exotica,” in arXiv (v2, July 11, 2024), doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2402.12422