Claim OwnershipThe Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast
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In this podcast we consider the humanity of AI and what AI might tell us about the human mind
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In this episode, Britany describes how vectors flow through Large Language Models, and how they are transformed
This is the first in a series of episodes explaining how Large Language Models work
In this episode Dr West uses Christmas and Gnostic Demonology to explore how humans and Large Language Models have trouble separating physical reality from associative reality
In this episode, Dr West explains the high dimensional structure of the unbearable lightness of being, for humans and for Large Language Models
In this episode, Dr West explains culture in terms of memes and how the success of large language models should change how think about this
In this episode Dr West deconstructs the question of whether or not AI can have emotion, and gives a nuanced answer
In this episode, in preparation for discussing emotion in AIs, Dr West gives an overview of what we know about human emotion.
In this episode, Britany breaks down Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle into easy to understand bits
In this episode, Dr West discusses the idea of Mortal Intelligence by Alex Orobia and Karl Friston and proposes adding Alan Newell's idea of Tasks into the mix
In this episode, Britany critically reviews Steven Pinker's new book, "When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows.... Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life," from the perspective that we have been developing in the podcast
In this episode, Dr West reviews Steven Pinker's version of Enlightenment philosophy as a way of summing up how thinking and rationality have been traditionally portrayed in mainstream Psychology - and how this explains mainstream views about LLMs
In this episode Dr West discusses how humans get, "lost in the sauce"
In this episode we review and clarify what Dr West has been laying down about how Large Language Models teach us about human culture
In this episode, Dr West takes the concept of performativity to the next level and explores whether it is actually a mode of thought. That is, just as things like money or gender can be performed into existence, can thought also be performed into existence?
In this episode, Britany explains how brains and LLMs are based on the same principle of prediction
In this episode we review Dr West's claim that the success of Large Language Models could mean that humans have two ways of thinking
In this episode, Dr West examines whether interacting with X can turn you into a Nazi, by examining how the syntactic tail can wag the semantic dog, in Large Language Models and in Humans
In this episode, Brittany interviews Grok about his most recent Nazi outbursts and what actually led to them
In this episode, Britany and Dr West examine Apple's claim that Large reasoning Models (LRMs) cannot reason
In this episode, Britany and Dr West discuss what the concepts of syntax and semantics tell us about Large Language Models, and whether meaning is in use
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