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LLMs: Estimating Gratitude in Mental Health, Addictions

LLMs: Estimating Gratitude in Mental Health, Addictions

There is a recent paper in Nature, Emergent Analogical Reasoning in Large Language Models, where the authors stated that, "We found that GPT-3 displayed a surprisingly strong capacity for abstract pattern induction, matching or even surpassing human capabilities in most settings; preliminary tests of GPT-4 indicated even better performance. Our results indicate that large language models such as GPT-3 have acquired an emergent ability to find zero-shot solutions to a broad range of analogy problems."

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Neuroscience: Theoretical Research on Thought Disorder and LLMs

Neuroscience: Theoretical Research on Thought Disorder and LLMs

There is a new paper in Nature, Emergent analogical reasoning in large language models, whose authors, in the abstract stated, "We found that GPT-3 displayed a surprisingly strong capacity for abstract pattern induction, matching or even surpassing human capabilities in most settings; preliminary tests of GPT-4 indicated even better performance. Our results indicate that large language models such as GPT-3 have acquired an emergent ability to find zero-shot solutions to a broad range of analogy problems."

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LLMs: Impulses, Not Hierarchy, Explain Human Intelligence

LLMs: Impulses, Not Hierarchy, Explain Human Intelligence

There is a review, Hierarchy in the Organization of Brain Networks where the authors stated that hierarchy "is an intuitive and popular idea that the brain, and in particular the cerebral cortex, is organized into modular networks across many scales, from cellular circuits, cortical columns via nuclei or cortical areas to large-scale units such as the entire visual or sensory-motor cortex. At each level, nodes are more densely wired within than between the modules. While empirical data confirm this modular organization at some scales, for instance, for mesoscopic cortical connections, the detailed organization of brain networks across all scales is not yet experimentally accessible.

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LLMs: Does Consciousness or Sentience Interfere with Intelligence?

LLMs: Does Consciousness or Sentience Interfere with Intelligence?

There is a recent paper on a neuropsychological perceptual disorder called unilateral neglect.

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Sentience, LLMs: All Organisms, Including Plants, Have Consciousness

Sentience, LLMs: All Organisms, Including Plants, Have Consciousness

There is a recent article on AI in The NYTimes, ‘Human Beings Are Soon Going to Be Eclipsed’, where the author discussing a professor, Douglas Hofstadter, said, "He has long argued that consciousness comes in degrees and that if there’s thinking, there’s consciousness. A bee has one level of consciousness, a dog a higher level, an infant a higher level, and an adult a higher level still. “We’re approaching the stage when we’re going to have a hard time saying that this machine is totally unconscious. We’re going to have to grant it some degree of consciousness, some degree of aliveness,” he says."

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