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 …

Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity

S Dehaene, F Al Roumi, Y Lakretz, S Planton… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2022 - cell.com
Natural language is often seen as the single factor that explains the cognitive singularity of
the human species. Instead, we propose that humans possess multiple internal languages …

Beyond the imitation game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

A Srivastava, A Rastogi, A Rao, AAM Shoeb… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Language models demonstrate both quantitative improvement and new qualitative
capabilities with increasing scale. Despite their potentially transformative impact, these new …

Misinformation and its correction: Continued influence and successful debiasing

S Lewandowsky, UKH Ecker… - … science in the …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
The widespread prevalence and persistence of misinformation in contemporary societies,
such as the false belief that there is a link between childhood vaccinations and autism, is a …

Capturing causal complexity: Heuristics for configurational theorizing

S Furnari, D Crilly, VF Misangyi… - Academy of …, 2021 - journals.aom.org
Management scholars study phenomena marked by complex interdependencies among
multiple explanatory factors that combine to bring about an outcome of interest. Yet …

[BOOK][B] An introduction to Kolmogorov complexity and its applications

M Li, P Vitányi - 2008 - Springer
Ming Li Paul Vitányi Fourth Edition Page 1 An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its
Applications Ming Li Paul Vitányi Fourth Edition Texts in Computer Science Page 2 Texts in …

The effort paradox: Effort is both costly and valued

M Inzlicht, A Shenhav, CY Olivola - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2018 - cell.com
According to prominent models in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and economics,
effort (be it physical or mental) is costly: when given a choice, humans and non-human …

How efficiency shapes human language

E Gibson, R Futrell, SP Piantadosi, I Dautriche… - Trends in cognitive …, 2019 - cell.com
Cognitive science applies diverse tools and perspectives to study human language.
Recently, an exciting body of work has examined linguistic phenomena through the lens of …

Symptoms and the body: taking the inferential leap

O Van den Bergh, M Witthöft, S Petersen… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
The relationship between the conscious experience of physical symptoms and indicators of
objective physiological dysfunction is highly variable and depends on characteristics of the …

[HTML][HTML] Compression and communication in the cultural evolution of linguistic structure

S Kirby, M Tamariz, H Cornish, K Smith - Cognition, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Language exhibits striking systematic structure. Words are composed of
combinations of reusable sounds, and those words in turn are combined to form complex …