Christopher Summerfield

1 month ago | irishnews.com | Will Oremus |Christopher Summerfield

Book review:These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What it MeansBy Christopher SummerfieldPublished by Viking, 373 pages, £22Are AI chatbots revolutionary technologies that herald the dawn of a new era of thinking machines? Or are they just “stochastic parrots”, as the linguist Emily M. Bender memorably put it - digital mimics programmed to feign intelligence but incapable of possessing it? A brainy new book by a cognitive neuroscientist at Oxford dives into that question.

Jun 20, 2024 | nature.com | Kelsey Allen |Franziska Brändle |Matthew Botvinick |Judith E. Fan |Samuel J. Gershman |Alison Gopnik | +14 more

AbstractBoard, card or video games have been played by virtually every individual in the world. Games are popular because they are intuitive and fun. These distinctive qualities of games also make them ideal for studying the mind. By being intuitive, games provide a unique vantage point for understanding the inductive biases that support behaviour in more complex, ecological settings than traditional laboratory experiments.

Sep 26, 2023 | journals.plos.org | Christopher Summerfield |Kevin Miller

This article is part of the PLOS Biology 20th Anniversary Collection. PLOS Biology was first published in 2003. That year, important changes were afoot in the field of neuroscience. The marriage of neural recording with computational theory was just starting to bear serious fruit, prompting the inauguration of the Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne) meeting in 2004. In tandem, three research streams were attracting particular interest.