computational cognitive science he/him
Berkeley, CA
Joined September 2017
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steven t. piantadosi retweeted
Congratulations to @chazfirestone of @JohnsHopkins on receiving the 2024 Joseph B. Gittler Award!🎉 Dr. Firestone has made an incredible impact in the philosophical foundations of psychological knowledge, and we're proud to give him the recognition he deserves.👏
#Psychology
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happy to share that we'll be presenting this work at neurips 2024! 🥳
some *surprising* updates coming for the results soon 👀 but all the code/images/data are already available at
project page: tzler.github.io/MOCHI/
🤗: huggingface.co/datasets/tzle…
code: github.com/tzler/mochi_code
do large-scale vision models represent the 3D structure of objects?
excited to share our benchmark: multiview object consistency in humans and image models (MOCHI)
with @xkungfu @YutongBAI1002 @thomaspocon @_yonifriedman @Nancy_Kanwisher Josh Tenenbaum and Alexei Efros
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steven t. piantadosi retweeted
Today's must-read: "lobbyists working for major North American oil and gas companies were key architects of anti-protest laws that increase penalties and could lead to non-violent environmental and climate activists being imprisoned up to 10 years."
theguardian.com/us-news/2024…
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🎩“The math of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from our models”
AI math systems often abstract away from language by augmenting LLMs with symbolic solvers and logical systems. While promising, is something lost? 🧵
steven t. piantadosi retweeted
Can I just step back for a second and say that it is RIDICULOUS that we live in a "democracy" where Kamala Harris is going to clearly, overwhelmingly, win the popular vote... and yet that doesn't matter in the slightest and everybody just blithely accepts that it doesn't matter.
The third home in one week collapsed into the ocean on September 24, 2024, in Rodanthe, North Carolina.
[📹 Chicamacomico Banks Fire Banks and Rescue]
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steven t. piantadosi retweeted
It's incredible what @gershbrain and @LanguageMIT have accomplished at the helm of Open Mind. Here's to many more years of high quality free-to-publish open access science. Consider submitting today 👉 direct.mit.edu/opmi/pages/su…
@LanguageMIT and I are so pleased about this:
mitpress.mit.edu/cognitive-s…
Thanks to @HarvardLibrary @mitlibraries @mitpress for making this happen!
steven t. piantadosi retweeted
No risotto recipes.
New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn tells @farhip that hacked Trump documents didn't past the “newsworthy” test, leading to the paper not publishing them.
vanityfair.com/news/story/do…
steven t. piantadosi retweeted
Just to put this in perspective, the cost of running Open Mind for a year is roughly the total APCs collected by Nature Communications in a single day. Journals can be run inexpensively, without gouging authors (and by extension taxpayers).
steven t. piantadosi retweeted
What does it say about our legal system when the U.S. Supreme Court refuses to stop an execution even when the county prosecuting agency that handled the original trial files a brief in support of a stay and supports vacating the entire conviction? #MarcellusWilliams
steven t. piantadosi retweeted
Hot new preprint just dropped w/@NeuroPolarbear and @MorenoBote , on where we explore “Rational Inattention" and how it drives optimally irrational choices and neural coding of value. 1/n
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The Article+Adjective+Numeral+Noun (e.g., “a lovely five days”) construction is quite rare, and yet people and LMs know it’s grammatical. What is the key to learning such a rare construction?
@kmahowald and I answer this question in the context of LMs in our new paper:
ALT Title page of our paper: “Language Models Learn Rare Phenomena from Less Rare Phenomena: The Case of the Missing AANNs” - Kanishka Misra and Kyle Mahowald
steven t. piantadosi retweeted
(1/X) I hate doing these, but I feel like I'm being baited to do so. A few days ago Maggie H did an interview where she complained criticism of her reporting, James Fallows answered back (mentioning this account) and Jon Chait and some Reason bro took a shot at Fallows for...
steven t. piantadosi retweeted
Global temperature change from 1850-2023. Watch till the end.
There is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #phaseoutfossilfuels #go100re
"It's an insult when a magazine that is supposed to care about science and facts supports the only candidate who cares about science and facts", did I get that right @RadioFreeTom?
"'Scientific American' is taking criticism for making a political endorsement, and rightly so: Such an endorsement not only undermines public trust in science, but it’s also insulting to readers," @RadioFreeTom writes: theatlantic.com/newsletters/…
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Never thought I would be a podcast host, but...
my arm was twisted and I'm co-hosting this season's Complexity Podcast from @sfiscience. Our topic is "The Nature of Intelligence" 🧠🤖
We have an amazing lineup of guests over six episodes.
I hope you'll check it out!
Launching on Wednesday, Sept 25. Stay tuned!
Right now, #AI is having a moment — and it’s not the first time grand predictions about the potential of machines are being made. But, what does it really mean to say something like ChatGPT is “intelligent”? What exactly is #intelligence?
The next season of the #Complexity #podcast, 'The Nature of Intelligence', explores this question through conversations with cognitive and neuroscientists, animal cognition researchers, and AI experts in six episodes. Together, we'll investigate the complexities of human intelligence, how it compares to that of other species, and where AI fits in. We'll dive into the relationship between language and thought, examine AI's limitations, and ask: Could machines ever truly be like us?