[HTML][HTML] Using artificial neural networks to ask 'why'questions of minds and brains

N Kanwisher, M Khosla, K Dobs - Trends in Neurosciences, 2023 - cell.com
Neuroscientists have long characterized the properties and functions of the nervous system,
and are increasingly succeeding in answering how brains perform the tasks they do. But the …

Machine learning of spatial data

B Nikparvar, JC Thill - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021 - mdpi.com
Properties of spatially explicit data are often ignored or inadequately handled in machine
learning for spatial domains of application. At the same time, resources that would identify …

Theory of mind might have spontaneously emerged in large language models

M Kosinski - arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.02083, 2023 - arxiv.org
Theory of mind (ToM), or the ability to impute unobservable mental states to others, is central
to human social interactions, communication, empathy, self-consciousness, and morality …

Brain-like functional specialization emerges spontaneously in deep neural networks

K Dobs, J Martinez, AJE Kell, N Kanwisher - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
The human brain contains multiple regions with distinct, often highly specialized functions,
from recognizing faces to understanding language to thinking about what others are …

Evaluating large language models in theory of mind tasks

M Kosinski - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024 - pnas.org
Eleven large language models (LLMs) were assessed using 40 bespoke false-belief tasks,
considered a gold standard in testing theory of mind (ToM) in humans. Each task included a …

Visuospatial coding as ubiquitous scaffolding for human cognition

IIA Groen, TM Dekker, T Knapen, EH Silson - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2022 - cell.com
For more than 100 years we have known that the visual field is mapped onto the surface of
visual cortex, imposing an inherently spatial reference frame on visual information …

[HTML][HTML] Will we ever have conscious machines?

P Krauss, A Maier - Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The question of whether artificial beings or machines could become self-aware or
consciousness has been a philosophical question for centuries. The main problem is that …

Brain-inspired models for visual object recognition: an overview

X Yang, J Yan, W Wang, S Li, B Hu, J Lin - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2022 - Springer
Visual object recognition is one of the most fundamental and challenging research topics in
the field of computer vision. The research on the neural mechanism of the primates' …

Attention-based knowledge distillation in scene recognition: the impact of a dct-driven loss

A López-Cifuentes, M Escudero-Viñolo… - … on Circuits and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a strategy for the definition of a set of transferability gangways
to improve the efficiency of Convolutional Neural Networks. Feature-based Knowledge …

Are humans still necessary?

PA Hancock - Ergonomics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Our long accepted and historically-persistent human narrative almost exclusively places us
at the motivational centre of events. The wellspring of this anthropocentric fable arises from …