Cognitive Biases in Large Language Models. Audio version.

On Brains, Minds, And Their Possible Uses

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Cognitive Biases in Large Language Models. Audio version.

TL;DR: LMs exhibit some cognitive biases. Additionally, explain how cognitive biases can come about in humans. Raising questions about how universal deductive inference is.

Jan Hendrik Kirchner

Apr 14, 2022

On Brains, Minds And Their Possible Uses

Cognitive Biases in Large Language Models

Humans, one might say, are the cyanobacteria of AI: we constantly emit large amounts of structured data, which implicitly rely on logic, causality, object permanence, history—all of that good stuff. All of that is implicit and encoded into our writings and videos and ‘data exhaust’. A model learning to predict must learn to understand all of that to get…

4 years ago · 1 like · Jan Hendrik Kirchner

On Brains, Minds, And Their Possible Uses

Cognitive Biases in Large Language Models. Audio version.

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