Ph. D. candidate, Cornell Psychology in the Cognitive Science of Language lab. Serious account.
Ithaca, NY
Joined September 2020
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Pablo Contreras Kallens retweeted
I've been having a nice time talking to @denizcemonduygu about maps and graphs of philosophical discourse, and thought I'd repost my bibliometric map of the phenomenology literature. Dots are authors, links are citations, and colors are clusters.
Pablo Contreras Kallens retweeted
@CSL_Lab alumn @pcontrerask talks about how feedback is crucial for getting large language models to produce more human-like language output, such as making similar agreement errors and being sensitive to subtle semantic distinctions
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Information density as a predictor of communication dynamics
Spotlight by Gary Lupyan (@glupyan), Pablo Contreras Kallens (@pcontrerask), & Rick Dale on recent @NatureHumanBehav work by Pete Aceves (@peteaceves) & James Evans (@profjamesevans)
authors.elsevier.com/a/1ixK3…
Pablo Contreras Kallens retweeted
How do infants learn to produce the consonant sounds of their ambient language? To find out, check out our CogSci proceedings paper “Statistical learning or phonological universals? Ambient language statistics guide consonant acquisition in four languages” A 🧵: /1
it's me!
Huge congratulations 🥳to
👉Dr.👈 @pcontrerask
who just passed his PhD defense with flying colors!👏
He defended his dissertation in @CornellPsychDpt
THE COMPUTATIONAL BRIDGE:
INTERFACING THEORY AND DATA IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Follow @pcontrerask to see the papers
Pablo Contreras Kallens retweeted
I'm delighted to announce the publication of our free, open access book, "Horizons of Phenomenology", a collection of essays on the state of the field. A brief thread about the book, and the long and ultimately victorious struggle to publish it open access. 1/
Pablo Contreras Kallens retweeted
Just realized I didn't include the link. Here it is! link.springer.com/book/10.10…
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In sum, the ideas that children (a) have innate syntactic categories and (b) NEED them because they can't construct them via distributional analyses alone are NOT straw-men but real and influential proposals in the child language literature 7/n
Pablo Contreras Kallens retweeted
I've seen lots of threads about large language models (LLMs) and their implications for language acquisition BUT not many threads by language-acquisition specialists. So here's my two cents on how LLMs undermine SOME SPECIFIC PROPOSALS for acquisition of syntactic categories 1/n
Pablo Contreras Kallens retweeted
For the Friday evening crowd still mulling over Chomsky’s op-ed, here’s a key passage from our recent letter in @cogsci_soc. There are absolutely some things LLMs cannot do. But what they can do, they do very well - and that demands attention. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/shar…
If you are unsatisfied by Chomsky et al.'s painfully petrified op-ed, boy do I have a read for you! It wasn't planned, but CogSci just published a letter by @MH_Christiansen , @ross_dkm and I arguing quite literally the opposite, at least re:language. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/shar… 🧵
Pablo Contreras Kallens retweeted
And for those who’d like a less academic take on the issues in this article, take a look at our short piece in the @ConversationUS:
theconversation.com/ai-is-ch…
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Another day, another opinion essay about ChatGPT in the @nytimes. This time, Noam Chomsky and colleagues weigh in on the shortcomings of language models. Unfortunately, this is not the nuanced discussion one could have hoped for. 🧵 1/
nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opini…
If you are unsatisfied by Chomsky et al.'s painfully petrified op-ed, boy do I have a read for you! It wasn't planned, but CogSci just published a letter by @MH_Christiansen , @ross_dkm and I arguing quite literally the opposite, at least re:language. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/shar… 🧵
Moreover, language has culturally evolved to fit the cognitive niche of humans, not LLMs. It is immediately assumed that the situation of a child is more precarious than an the LLM's. But this is not as obvious as a first hunch might tell you. It is, again, an empirical question.