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Gary McGraw

Thirty years ago, I published my PhD dissertation on Letter Spirit --- all about creativity, AI, and cognitive science. My advisor was Doug Hofstadter. Last week I was asked to give a keynote talk about that work in France. The talk was captured in video.
#AI #cogsci #creativity #typography

berryvilleiml.com/2025/02/26/r

Berryville Institute of Machine LearningRevisiting Letter Spirit Thirty Years Later | BIML(crossposted to apothecaryshed) I was honored to be asked to present a talk on my thesis work in Nancy at the Automatic
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Gary McGraw

The talk that I gave about Letter Spirit (my 30 year old thesis project) in France last week has been posted as a video. #AI #ML #cogsci #hofstadter #creativity #design #typography

ML/AI, Typographic Design, and the Four “I”s

During this talk I will touch on Intuition, Insight, and Inspiration. First I will set the context by introducing the Letter Spirit project and its microdomain — work I published exactly 30 years ago as a Ph.D. student of Doug Hofstadter’s...

berryvilleiml.com/2025/02/26/r

Berryville Institute of Machine LearningRevisiting Letter Spirit Thirty Years Later | BIML(crossposted to apothecaryshed) I was honored to be asked to present a talk on my thesis work in Nancy at the Automatic
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noplasticshower

The talk that I gave about Letter Spirit (my 30 year old thesis project) in France last week has been posted as a video. #AI #ML #cogsci #hofstadter #creativity #design #typography

ML/AI, Typographic Design, and the Four “I”s

During this talk I will touch on Intuition, Insight, and Inspiration. First I will set the context by introducing the Letter Spirit project and its microdomain — work I published exactly 30 years ago as a Ph.D. student of Doug Hofstadter’s. I will spend some time discussing the role of roles (and other mental structures) in creativity and human perception. Then I’ll take a quick run through the current state of “AI” (really ML) so we get a feeling of how LLMs actually work. We will talk about WHAT MACHINES and relate them to human cognition. Finally, just as I get around to intuition, insight, and inspiration, I will run out of time.

apothecaryshed.com/2025/02/26/

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Gojirra

#introduction Hi, I'm Goji! I'm brand new to the #fediverse !
I'm currently pursuing a B.S. in #cogsci
Lately I've been spending my free time less on writing (I do short stories, and I'd like to self-publish a full novel) and more on reading.
I play some video games, but being a linux-boi has pared that back quite a bit.
My other hobbies are mountain biking, music, and succumbing to depression under a blanket.

You can expect me to talk about: #PoliticalReform, #AI, #foss, #books, university, #veganism, my perfect cats, and other interesting things I am learning about.

I will try to balance my emo, millennial nature with wit and well-written posts about things that matter. If I sound like a whiny bitch, stick around for a bit and see if it changes?

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Ulrike Hahn

and he is at the forefront of research examining #LLMs in agent-based settings and agent-based modelling

e.g., s.bingheai.cn:8443/abs/2409.02

and

arxiv.org/abs/2409.02822

so this will be a totally different aspect to LLMs than what we’ve seen in the seminar series so far! @cogsci @philosophy #cogsci #ABMs

arXiv.orgLarge Language Model agents can coordinate beyond human scaleLarge Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as interacting agents, forming ``LLM societies''. Understanding whether these societies can self-organize and coordinate on norms without external influence is crucial to understand their risks and opportunities. Here we explore their opinion dynamics finding that it is governed by a majority force coefficient such that LLM societies can spontaneously reach consensus only up to a critical group size. This critical size grows exponentially with the language understanding capabilities of the models, exceeding the typical size of informal human groups for advanced LLMs. These results reveal emerging self-organization properties in LLM societies and provide insights for designing collaborative AI systems where coordination is either a goal or a risk.
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Dr Emma Kate Ward

Does anyone know about Helmholtz machines, or similar, and would be open to me asking a couple of questions?

I do experimental cognitive psychology and they're outside my expertise, and I think my questions are the type that are hard to answer through reading individual papers myself but should be simple for someone who is familiar with the higher level assumptions and norms of the field.

Thanks!

#academicChatter#predictiveProcessing#cognitiveScience
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petersuber

From #JohnHopfield on his #Nobel prize: "I think that the prize is recognizing, in part, the fact that understanding the deep problems of things like #mind is not going to come forth in some simple way like Newtonian physics. It really requires much more understanding of the relationship between structure and properties, and structure dynamics and properties."
nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/

NobelPrize.orgThe Nobel Prize in Physics 2024The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 was awarded jointly to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks"
#AI#CogSci#Emergence
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skry

This is a fascinating article on the solid scientific evidence we have now for the independence of language and thought.

The other primates, the corvids, and many other animals can think but don’t have a language, so it makes sense that humans can think without language as well.

scientificamerican.com/article

Scientific American · You Don’t Need Words to ThinkBy Gary Stix
#brain#intelligence#language
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Brains

Here are the three main components (and three subsidiary components) of the reason-responsive consequentialist theory of rational inquiry for bounded agents:

philosophyofbrains.com/2024/07

“…the program may be much less revisionary than feared.”

– David Thorstad on his #free #book, Inquiry Under Bounds (#OUP 2024).

(Stay tuned for tomorrow's, which post gives arguments for this view.)

The Brains Blog · A theory of rational inquiryThis post develops a theory of rational inquiry for bounded agents: the reason-responsive consequentialist view.
#epistemology#philosophy#cogSci
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Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

Is the #psychology of #religion different in more #atheist cultures like the Nordic countries?

Valerie van Mulukom (researchgate.net/profile/Valer) & Anne Lundahl Mauritsen (pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/a) report that they found (among other things)

1. analytic thinking predicted less religiosity

2. intuitive thinking predicted religiosity (above and beyond a bunch of other factors)

Analytic thinking predicted "religious belief" (controlling for other factors, it seems).
Intuitive thinking (bottom circle) predicting variance in belief in God controlling for more than a dozen other factors
Some info about the Nordic country data
The presenters (do not include Miguel Farias who seemed to be chairing the session).
#cogSci#decisionScienc#atheism
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