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Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss):
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
updated our (@andrea) connectionist preprint with some improvements due to great feedback on some points, e.g. refinement of the point on how concepts like "neurobiological plausibility" and so-called "bridge laws" are sadly nonsense (see extracts below from section 2.1, and PDF for full: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/eaf2z)
The amazing @Iris, Marcela S., Barbara M. & I build towards (sadly not obv to all):
"Universities are not spokespersons for the AI industry. On the contrary, we need to resist being coopted and corrupted by the industries’ agendas."
https://rcsc.substack.com/p/critical-ai-literacy-beyond-hegemonic
"Urgent plea to Dutch higher education institutions: Cut ties with genocide and refuse police on campus!"
I've felt for a while that a mainstream method, reverse engineering, in cognitive science & AI is incompatible w computationalism‼️ So I wrote "Modern Alchemy: Neurocognitive Reverse Engineering" w the wonderful Natalia Scharfenberg & @Iris to elaborate: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/25289/
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Tired but happy to say this is out w @andrea Are Neurocognitive Representations 'Small Cakes'? https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24834/
We analyse theories of representation in neuroscience showing how vicious regress, e.g. the homunculus fallacy, is (sadly) alive and well — and importantly how to avoid it. 1/
Titus, Lisa Miracchi. "Does ChatGPT have semantic understanding? A problem with the statistics-of-occurrence strategy." Cognitive Systems Research 83 (2024): 101174.
Nice one to complement my paper with @andrea when dealing with brain = ANN rhetoric: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2023.101174
This is why when AI bros claim they don't understand their models you should laugh at them and not take it as evidence the model is somehow brain-like or mysterious
