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Can one black box explain another?
Contracting out LLM-ology to LLMs.
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Sean Trott
GPT-4 captures judgments about semantic relatedness quite well
Where it diverges, it does so in interesting ways.
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Sean Trott
Turn-taking in the age of Zoom
How communication media shape communication
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Sean Trott
April 2023
AI (mis)alignment, Waluigi, and the Knobe Effect
Why it might be easier for LLMs to be bad than good.
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Sean Trott
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March 2023
What (some) people think about cultured meat
Results from a pilot study of UC San Diego undergraduates (final N = 184).
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Sean Trott
Useful cognitive lenses to see through
Tools for thinking.
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Sean Trott
In cautious defense of LLM-ology
It's useful to try to peek inside the black box, but it should be done rigorously.
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Sean Trott
February 2023
Cognitive Science needs linguistic diversity
Unrepresentative samples can narrow our perspective.
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Sean Trott
Detecting LLM-generated text is hard
Most solutions raise questions of their own.
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Sean Trott
January 2023
Cultured meat and the problem of "naturalness"
How perceived naturalness impacts attitudes towards cultured meat.
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Sean Trott
December 2022
Blowing off steam or picking a scab?
Different conceptualizations of what it means to express anger.
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Sean Trott
Humans, LLMs, and the symbol grounding problem (pt. 2)
Evidence for knowledge in the absence of sensorimotor input.
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Sean Trott
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