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Laura Weidinger: Ethical Risks, Harms, and Alignment of Large Language Models

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Is There a Difference Between AI and Cognitive Science?

When you worked at Max Planck, you actually did some research in cognitive psychology and published some work that you presented at a computational neuroscience conference. So given that, now that you're working in AI research, could you give maybe a quick comparison of these different fields of cognitive science and psychology to AI? Yeah, definitely. I would say the communities have already started overlapping or had started overlapping when I was in it. There is quite a bit of common language and common ground. Probably what's different is that in one, you study humans and in the other, you try to build something. so the research questions are really different.

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