Machine culture

L Brinkmann, F Baumann, JF Bonnefon… - Nature Human …, 2023‏ - nature.com
The ability of humans to create and disseminate culture is often credited as the single most
important factor of our success as a species. In this Perspective, we explore the notion of …

A manifesto for applying behavioural science

M Hallsworth - Nature Human Behaviour, 2023‏ - nature.com
Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the use of behavioural science to address the
priorities of public and private sector actors. There is now a vibrant ecosystem of …

Cognitive architectures for language agents

T Sumers, S Yao, K Narasimhan… - Transactions on Machine …, 2023‏ - openreview.net
Recent efforts have augmented large language models (LLMs) with external resources (eg,
the Internet) or internal control flows (eg, prompt chaining) for tasks requiring grounding or …

Embers of autoregression: Understanding large language models through the problem they are trained to solve

RT McCoy, S Yao, D Friedman, M Hardy… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023‏ - arxiv.org
The widespread adoption of large language models (LLMs) makes it important to recognize
their strengths and limitations. We argue that in order to develop a holistic understanding of …

Prediction during language comprehension: what is next?

R Ryskin, MS Nieuwland - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2023‏ - cell.com
Prediction is often regarded as an integral aspect of incremental language comprehension,
but little is known about the cognitive architectures and mechanisms that support it. We …

Language models show human-like content effects on reasoning tasks

I Dasgupta, AK Lampinen, SCY Chan… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022‏ - arxiv.org
Reasoning is a key ability for an intelligent system. Large language models (LMs) achieve
above-chance performance on abstract reasoning tasks, but exhibit many imperfections …

The best game in town: The reemergence of the language-of-thought hypothesis across the cognitive sciences

J Quilty-Dunn, N Porot, E Mandelbaum - Behavioral and Brain …, 2023‏ - cambridge.org
Mental representations remain the central posits of psychology after many decades of
scrutiny. However, there is no consensus about the representational format (s) of biological …

Salience

P Bordalo, N Gennaioli, A Shleifer - Annual Review of …, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
We review the fast-growing work on salience and economic behavior. Psychological
research shows that salient stimuli attract human attention bottom up due to their high …

From word models to world models: Translating from natural language to the probabilistic language of thought

L Wong, G Grand, AK Lew, ND Goodman… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023‏ - arxiv.org
How does language inform our downstream thinking? In particular, how do humans make
meaning from language--and how can we leverage a theory of linguistic meaning to build …

From task structures to world models: what do LLMs know?

I Yildirim, LA Paul - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024‏ - cell.com
In what sense does a large language model (LLM) have knowledge? We answer by
granting LLMs 'instrumental knowledge': knowledge gained by using next-word generation …