Guests:
- Erica Cartmill, Professor, Anthropology and Cognitive Science, Indiana University Bloomington
- Ellie Pavlick, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Linguistics, Brown University
Hosts: Abha Eli Phoboo & Melanie Mitchell
Producer: Katherine Moncure
Podcast theme music by: Mitch Mignano
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Books:
- Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
Talks:
Papers & Articles:
- “Just kidding: the evolutionary roots of playful teasing,” in Biology Letters (September 23, 2020), doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0370
- “Overcoming bias in the comparison of human language and animal communication,” in PNAS (November 13, 2023), doi.org/10.1073/pnas.22187991
- “Using the senses in animal communication,” by Erica Cartmill, in A New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology, Chapter 20, Wiley Online Library (March 21, 2023)
- “Symbols and grounding in large language models,” in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A (June 5, 2023), doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2022.0041
- “Emergence of abstract state representations in embodied sequence modeling,” in arXiv (November 7, 2023), doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2311.02171
- “How do we know how smart AI systems are,” in Science (July 13, 2023), doi: 10.1126/science.adj59
