Dissociating language and thought in large language models

K Mahowald, AA Ivanova, IA Blank, N Kanwisher… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2024 - cell.com
Large language models (LLMs) have come closest among all models to date to mastering
human language, yet opinions about their linguistic and cognitive capabilities remain split …

Reinforcement learning, fast and slow

M Botvinick, S Ritter, JX Wang, Z Kurth-Nelson… - Trends in cognitive …, 2019 - cell.com
Deep reinforcement learning (RL) methods have driven impressive advances in artificial
intelligence in recent years, exceeding human performance in domains ranging from Atari to …

The debate over understanding in AI's large language models

M Mitchell, DC Krakauer - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
We survey a current, heated debate in the artificial intelligence (AI) research community on
whether large pretrained language models can be said to understand language—and the …

Large language models fail on trivial alterations to theory-of-mind tasks

T Ullman - arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.08399, 2023 - arxiv.org
Intuitive psychology is a pillar of common-sense reasoning. The replication of this reasoning
in machine intelligence is an important stepping-stone on the way to human-like artificial …

Deep hierarchical semantic segmentation

L Li, T Zhou, W Wang, J Li… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Humans are able to recognize structured relations in observation, allowing us to decompose
complex scenes into simpler parts and abstract the visual world in multiple levels. However …

Savi++: Towards end-to-end object-centric learning from real-world videos

G Elsayed, A Mahendran… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
The visual world can be parsimoniously characterized in terms of distinct entities with sparse
interactions. Discovering this compositional structure in dynamic visual scenes has proven …

Intuitive physics learning in a deep-learning model inspired by developmental psychology

LS Piloto, A Weinstein, P Battaglia… - Nature human …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract 'Intuitive physics' enables our pragmatic engagement with the physical world and
forms a key component of 'common sense'aspects of thought. Current artificial intelligence …

Conditional object-centric learning from video

T Kipf, GF Elsayed, A Mahendran, A Stone… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Object-centric representations are a promising path toward more systematic generalization
by providing flexible abstractions upon which compositional world models can be built …

Object scene representation transformer

MSM Sajjadi, D Duckworth… - Advances in neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
A compositional understanding of the world in terms of objects and their geometry in 3D
space is considered a cornerstone of human cognition. Facilitating the learning of such a …

On the binding problem in artificial neural networks

K Greff, S Van Steenkiste, J Schmidhuber - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Contemporary neural networks still fall short of human-level generalization, which extends
far beyond our direct experiences. In this paper, we argue that the underlying cause for this …