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230 | Raphaël Millière on How Artificial Intelligence Thinks

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Exploring Compositionality in Cognition and AI

This chapter examines the concept of compositionality, highlighting its significance in linguistic and visual cognition. It contrasts traditional symbolic reasoning with connectionist models, discussing the limitations of AI in capturing complex representations. The exploration extends to mechanistic interpretability in artificial intelligence, focusing on how models process word representations and the specialized roles of neurons in understanding language and imagery.

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