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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Ali Minai @barbarikon · Apr 19, 2023

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Thanks for this wonderful thread. Any suggestions on which open source LMs are best suited for use as cognitive models - especially for probing internal states ?

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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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