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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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SeiCan - Relating Language to Action

Google's SeiCan project uses pre-trained language models to parse instructions given by humans. These models are used to translate this natural language instruction into a format that is more actionable from a robotics perspective, like drive to kitchen and then fetch apples. But the key aspect here of these systems is that these are not systems that are trained end-to-end by interacting with the world. And so there is perhaps a surprisingly deep question here about whether this kind of system is at all useful to think of what might be happening in human cognition or animal cognition.

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