Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

GenAI hasn’t created memorable songs, books, & movies, despite vast amounts of input. Why? 1. Everything GA AI does is derivative & tends to be a kind of average. 2. It lacks a conceptual understanding of human experience. 3. Because GenAI lacks robust world models, its output lacks coherence.

Tired but happy to say this is out w @andreaeyleen.bsky.social: Are Neurocognitive Representations 'Small Cakes'? philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24834/ We analyse cog neuro theories showing how vicious regress, e.g. the homunculus fallacy, is (sadly) alive and well — and importantly how to avoid it. 1/

New postdoc position open in my project TURING! If you are interested in Large Language Models, come work with us. Deadline 7 March! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/318547

New paper out! 🚨🤖 We provide a comprehensive assessment of the newest reasoning model from OpenAI (o3-mini-high). We show that it fails to even remotely exhibit human-like linguistic (syntactic/compositional) competence. @garymarcus.bsky.social @evelinaleivada.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2502.10934

🎬🎥🍿 Video of my keynote at MathPsych2024 now available online www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrwN... #CogSci #CriticalAI #AIhype #AGI #PsychSci #PhilSci 🧪

thinking of calling this "The Illusion Illusion" (more examples below)

Hello! I'm an internet linguist! I wrote a book called Because Internet about how we use language online gretchenmcculloch.com/book I make @lingthusiasm.bsky.social, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics And I maintain a linguistics starter pack here: go.bsky.app/UUM7Gcx

New paper out at Scientific Reports! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One day I hope someone will develop the habit of reading the paper past p. 3. Because if one does it, one will know that we do test the ability to understand questions within a hmm given discourse context.

25 workshops at SLE 2024 in Helsinki (deadline: 15 January): societaslinguistica.eu/sle2024/list...

🎈Great news!The Agencia Estatal de Investigación funded my project TURING (The Language Understanding of Artificial Intelligence Applications) with ca. 340K!! Elated for this new adventure! Stay tuned, I'll be soon hiring 2 or 3 post-docs. 🥳

New paper in PNAS! Systematic testing of 3 Large Language Models reveals low language accuracy, absence of response stability, and a yes-response bias. We also tested humans in the exact same tasks and their performance as both stable and largely accurate. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The Bilingual Dual-Path model: simulating bilingual production, comprehension, and development osf.io/preprints/ps.... A new preprint by @yunghankhoe.bsky.social, who's new to BlueSky and would like more followers