Search Results for author: David C. Krakauer

Found 3 papers, 1 papers with code

The Debate Over Understanding in AI's Large Language Models

no code implementations14 Oct 2022 Melanie Mitchell, David C. Krakauer

We survey a current, heated debate in the AI research community on whether large pre-trained language models can be said to "understand" language -- and the physical and social situations language encodes -- in any important sense.

Outsourcing Memory Through Niche Construction

1 code implementation1 Sep 2022 Edward D. Lee, Jessica C. Flack, David C. Krakauer

Then, how quickly should the organism change in response to the environment?

The Cultural Evolution of National Constitutions

no code implementations18 Nov 2017 Daniel N. Rockmore, Chen Fang, Nicholas J. Foti, Tom Ginsburg, David C. Krakauer

We explore how ideas from infectious disease and genetics can be used to uncover patterns of cultural inheritance and innovation in a corpus of 591 national constitutions spanning 1789 - 2008.

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