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Michael C. Frank

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Developmental psychologist at Stanford University. Proposed that infants' language development involves Bayesian inference. Studied the role of language in numerical cognition compa... Show More

Developmental psychologist at Stanford University. Proposed that infants' language development involves Bayesian inference. Studied the role of language in numerical cognition comparing native Pirahã language speakers to MIT undergraduate students in numeric tasks.

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Tweet Apr 10, 2023
What does it mean for a large language model (LLM) to "have" a particular ability? Developmental psychologists argue about these questions all the time and have for decades. There are some ground rules. 🧵 twitter.com/mcxfrank/status/16454593835545681
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Tweet Apr 4, 2023
People are testing large language models (LLMs) on their "cognitive" abilities - theory of mind, causality, syllogistic reasoning, etc. Many (most?) of these evaluations are deeply flawed. To evaluate LLMs effectively, we need some principles from ex
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Tweet Apr 19, 2023
Can a large language model be used as a "cognitive model" - meaning, a scientific artifact that helps us reason about the emergence of complex behavior and abstract representations in the human mind? My answer is YES. Why and under what conditions?
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