Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity

S Dehaene, F Al Roumi, Y Lakretz, S Planton… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2022 - cell.com
Natural language is often seen as the single factor that explains the cognitive singularity of
the human species. Instead, we propose that humans possess multiple internal languages …

The neuroconnectionist research programme

A Doerig, RP Sommers, K Seeliger… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) inspired by biology are beginning to be widely used to
model behavioural and neural data, an approach we call 'neuroconnectionism'. ANNs have …

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 …

Human-like systematic generalization through a meta-learning neural network

BM Lake, M Baroni - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The power of human language and thought arises from systematic compositionality—the
algebraic ability to understand and produce novel combinations from known components …

Embers of autoregression: Understanding large language models through the problem they are trained to solve

RT McCoy, S Yao, D Friedman, M Hardy… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The widespread adoption of large language models (LLMs) makes it important to recognize
their strengths and limitations. We argue that in order to develop a holistic understanding of …

A survey on hyperdimensional computing aka vector symbolic architectures, part ii: Applications, cognitive models, and challenges

D Kleyko, D Rachkovskij, E Osipov, A Rahimi - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
This is Part II of the two-part comprehensive survey devoted to a computing framework most
commonly known under the names Hyperdimensional Computing and Vector Symbolic …

What are large language models supposed to model?

IA Blank - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Do large language models (LLMs) constitute a computational account of how humans
process language? And if so, what is the role of (psycho) linguistic theory in understanding …

Get Real Get Better: A Framework for Developing Agile Program Management in the US Navy Supported by the Application of Advanced Data Analytics and AI

J Haase, PB Walker, O Berardi, W Karwowski - Technologies, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper discusses the “Get Real Get Better”(GRGB) approach to implementing agile
program management in the US Navy, supported by advanced data analytics and artificial …

Torchhd: An open source python library to support research on hyperdimensional computing and vector symbolic architectures

M Heddes, I Nunes, P Vergés, D Kleyko… - Journal of Machine …, 2023 - jmlr.org
Hyperdimensional computing (HD), also known as vector symbolic architectures (VSA), is a
framework for computing with distributed representations by exploiting properties of random …

Emerging opportunities and challenges for the future of reservoir computing

M Yan, C Huang, P Bienstman, P Tino, W Lin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Reservoir computing originates in the early 2000s, the core idea being to utilize dynamical
systems as reservoirs (nonlinear generalizations of standard bases) to adaptively learn …