Iris van Rooij 💭

@Iris@scholar.social
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Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | Radboud University | School of Artificial Intelligence | Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour | Guest Prof at Aarhus University | she/they 🏳️‍🌈
Websitehttps://irisvanrooijcogsci.com
Bloghttps://metatheorist.com
Bookhttps://cognitionandintractability.com
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/IrisVanRooij

"But other scientists were less impressed. @olivia Guest, a computational cognitive scientist at Radboud University in the Netherlands, argued that because the scientists hadn’t used a theory about cognition in building Centaur, its prediction didn’t have much to reveal about how the mind works.

“Prediction in this context is a red herring,” she said."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/science/ai-psychology-mind.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TU8.RM2s.7f35s4OtQmNf&smid=wa-share

Scientist Use A.I. To Mimic the Mind, Warts and All

To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology experiment questions. It now answers questions much like we do.

The New York Times
I’m just an old fuddy-duddy, I guess

My university gives “guidance” on the use of generative AI in student work. It’s not really guidance, because it simply doesn’t care — you can allow it or prohibit it.…

Pharyngula
@dingemansemark Helemaal mee eens, ook leden van @fnv mogen in de pen klimmen!
Of ik instem, vraagt de AOb haar leden vandaag per email. Nee, ik stem niet in met een onderhandelaarsakkoord dat valt voor AI-hype en daarmee een achterdeur inbouwt voor meer surveillance en een systematische ontmenselijking en veronachtzaming van cruciale werkprocessen. Wat een gotspe!
Jaja een uitdaging maar zeeeker ook een kans, ik zie het de wijdogige management-types al zeggen. Woorden schieten te kort voor deze stuitende gemiddeldheid, dit hersenloze papegaaien van de PR-zinnetjes van Big Tech, dit fatale gebrek aan zelfstandig en kritisch denken.

Wel heb ik ooit AOb, hoe komt die AI-prietpraat in het onderhandelaarsakkoord voor onze CAO, en hoe krijgen we die er zo snel mogelijk uit?

Waarom ik niet instem met het onderhandelingsakkoord voor de CAO universiteiten https://ideophone.org/waarom-ik-niet-instem-met-het-onderhandelingsakkoord-voor-de-cao-universiteiten/

#cao #universiteiten #vakbond

"But other scientists were less impressed. @olivia Guest, a computational cognitive scientist at Radboud University in the Netherlands, argued that because the scientists hadn’t used a theory about cognition in building Centaur, its prediction didn’t have much to reveal about how the mind works.

“Prediction in this context is a red herring,” she said."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/science/ai-psychology-mind.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TU8.RM2s.7f35s4OtQmNf&smid=wa-share

Scientist Use A.I. To Mimic the Mind, Warts and All

To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology experiment questions. It now answers questions much like we do.

The New York Times
"People who use AI at work feel that they're more productive" is an argument I've been seeing in various forms lately, which, as a recommendation, is not far removed from "people on cocaine at parties feel that they're more interesting."

@Iris Exactly, I used some of their material to teach 8-12 year olds about information theory and… language models!

https://djoerdhiemstra.com/2013/what-is-information/

What is information? – Djoerd Hiemstra

@Iris

There is a contradiction between '“AI” displays human-like intelligence' and 'you need to learn "critical AI literacy" to be able to frame questions and interpret and validate the responses'.