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Generalization via analogy in young children and Large Models.Unknown Futures of Generalization 20242024-12-02
Empirical tests show toddlers use relational rules to generalize: 24‑month‑olds (n=100 preregistered) pick the right machine to make a hat fit after seeing a…
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There is no such thing as AGI: Understanding multiple intelligences across evolution and developmentDecoding Communication in Nonhuman Species III (2024)2024-06-29
Argues against a single AGI by showing concrete, cross‑species evidence for incompatible cognitive goals: explore–exploit–care trade‑off (juvenile rats and…
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Cultural EvolutionUnderstanding Higher-Level Intelligence from AI, Psychology, and Neuroscience Perspectives2024-06-24
Argument claims that LLMs as cultural technologies — they compress and retrieve centuries of human text and pictures rather than act as independent agents —…
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Learning Abstract Causal Structure From Causal Interventions In Children And Artificial AgentsLearning from Interventions 20222022-02-14
Claim: preschoolers extract abstract causal models from sparse statistics and improve them by active interventions on a simple blicket detector task. Methods…
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Panel DiscussionLearning from Interventions 20222022-02-14
Shows that regret‑optimal bandit algorithms lose precision on low arms but a quick practical fix is to inflate CIs by 1.5 so UCB/Thompson sampling become…
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