The Generative Brain
Elan BarenholtzMusings on the nature of mind and machines
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The End of the World (Models)
A common criticism of large language models is that they do not have world models. They take in sequences of tokens and predict what comes next, but they do not represent the reality those tokens are about. They can sound fluent while remai...
Ego Death?
Take a moment to pause and experience your experiences. What does your phenomenological consciousness actually consist of? The visual stream of shapes, colors, and words. Maybe an inner voice running alongside as you read these lines, braid...
Sequences Are All You Need
Video and audio generators have revealed something profound: it turns out that sensory sequences— just like language— contain sufficient information for their own generation. Train a model on enough examples of cats jumping on couches or pe...
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The Brain as a Language Model (But Not How You Think)
The explosion of large language models (LLMs) has given us a powerful new framework for intelligence. These systems exhibit full linguistic competence based on learning to perform th...
Beyond Binding
You bite into an apple. The visual redness, tactile smoothness, gustatory sweetness, and conceptual knowledge of the apple’s utility are not experienced as separate elements that happen to co-occur in time. Instead, they are differentiated...
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Professor | Computational Philosopher | Co-Director, Machine Perception and Cognitive Robotics Lab @FAU | Associate Director, Center for the Future Mindi
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