Lise Meitner Group Leader, Language & Computation in Neural Systems, @MPI_NL ; PI, Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging; @DondersInst ; https://t.co/uWN9tJsbBY
Jun 12, 2023 • 70 tweets • 12 min read
🧵What we love about ChatGPT is us, the human mind; AKA self-love is blind
The popularity of ChatGPT inter alia underscores the power of the human mind - but not because LLMs are in any way a model of it – buckle up! 0/N
Humans tend to interpret signals in the environment as meaningful (and we have a hard time with randomness and such); 1/N
May 31, 2023 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
@o_guest and I have talked about the metatheoretic relationship between ANN and [cognition, the brain] as a digital clock and a clockwork clock 1/n
But lately as the LLM discourse has reached new heights, a better analogy is probably artificial flowers ; see:
Logical inference about neural networks as models of brain activity and behavior
– a saga in 8 or 9 tweets –
by me, soon to be vastly improved by @o_guest /0
We often reason about what models represent, learn, or ‘know,’ based on performance on a task, or whether the model approximates human behavior/brain activity. Then sometimes we also try to infer what algorithm the human mind and brain instantiates based on this. /1