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‘Nowhere Left to Go’: As California College of the Arts Closes, So Does a Pathway for Bay Area Artists | KQED

The school's closure stands to have a devastating impact on the Bay Area’s arts ecosystem

Community Meeting Network for Environmental Humanities: ENERGY

In this community meeting of the Network for Environmental Humanities, May Ee Wong and Rianne Riemens invite us to think critically about energy futures.

IN FOCUS: Where will Singapore's rubbish go after Semakau landfill is full?

Singapore's only landfill has 10 years left, and waste disposal rates are going up while recycling is down. The urgency to "save Semakau" or find alternatives is growing.

Semakau Landfill beyond 2035 – Cosmogrammatics

Large Language Models Do Not Simulate Human Psychology

Large Language Models (LLMs),such as ChatGPT, are increasingly used in research, ranging from simple writing assistance to complex data annotation tasks. Recently, some research has suggested that LLMs may even be able to simulate human psychology and can, hence, replace human participants in psychological studies. We caution against this approach. We provide conceptual arguments against the hypothesis that LLMs simulate human psychology. We then present empiric evidence illustrating our arguments by demonstrating that slight changes to wording that correspond to large changes in meaning lead to notable discrepancies between LLMs' and human responses, even for the recent CENTAUR model that was specifically fine-tuned on psychological responses. Additionally, different LLMs show very different responses to novel items, further illustrating their lack of reliability. We conclude that LLMs do not simulate human psychology and recommend that psychological researchers should treat LLMs as useful but fundamentally unreliable tools that need to be validated against human responses for every new application.