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 …

Symbols and grounding in large language models

E Pavlick - … Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Large language models (LLMs) are one of the most impressive achievements of artificial
intelligence in recent years. However, their relevance to the study of language more broadly …

Sparks of artificial general intelligence: Early experiments with gpt-4

S Bubeck, V Chandrasekaran, R Eldan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have been developing and refining large language
models (LLMs) that exhibit remarkable capabilities across a variety of domains and tasks …

Using cognitive psychology to understand GPT-3

M Binz, E Schulz - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
We study GPT-3, a recent large language model, using tools from cognitive psychology.
More specifically, we assess GPT-3's decision-making, information search, deliberation, and …

Translating natural language to planning goals with large-language models

Y Xie, C Yu, T Zhu, J Bai, Z Gong, H Soh - arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.05128, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recent large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on a
variety of natural language processing (NLP) tasks, leading to intense excitement about their …

[PDF][PDF] Modern language models refute Chomsky's approach to language

S Piantadosi - Lingbuzz Preprint, lingbuzz, 2023 - lingbuzz.net
The rise and success of large language models undermines virtually every strong claim for
the innateness of language that has been proposed by generative linguistics. Modern …

Generalized planning in pddl domains with pretrained large language models

T Silver, S Dan, K Srinivas, JB Tenenbaum… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Recent work has considered whether large language models (LLMs) can function as
planners: given a task, generate a plan. We investigate whether LLMs can serve as …

[HTML][HTML] A survey of GPT-3 family large language models including ChatGPT and GPT-4

KS Kalyan - Natural Language Processing Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Large language models (LLMs) are a special class of pretrained language models (PLMs)
obtained by scaling model size, pretraining corpus and computation. LLMs, because of their …

Harms from increasingly agentic algorithmic systems

A Chan, R Salganik, A Markelius, C Pang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Research in Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE) 1 has established
many sources and forms of algorithmic harm, in domains as diverse as health care, finance …

From word models to world models: Translating from natural language to the probabilistic language of thought

L Wong, G Grand, AK Lew, ND Goodman… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
How does language inform our downstream thinking? In particular, how do humans make
meaning from language--and how can we leverage a theory of linguistic meaning to build …