The one thing of which each person can be most certain is the existence of their own subjective self-awareness.

This is also the one thing that it's least possible for any person to prove beyond doubt to anyone else.

#philosophy #TheoryOfMind #consciousness #logic #thinking #cognition #weird

New paper out on "Interactions within the social brain: Co-activation and connectivity among networks enabling #empathy and #TheoryOfMind"
Really great work by Lara Maliske in collaboration with MatthiasSchurz
https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1geBIY3M3eDUg

Social situations: In #social situations, people behave very differently than when they are on their own (e.g. in front of the TV or in the lab). We compare human #behaviour and #brain activity in social situations with classic non-social lab situations.
We also investigate whether the ability to attribute beliefs to others #TheoryOfMind is related to our social behaviour and how it can reliably be measured

Lots of great talks at the http://www.analogicalminds.com seminar this term - you can find all the recordings in the thread below. Back in January with a new series of talks exploring the analogical core of cognition!

#cognition #development #education #AI #analogy #reasoning #similarity #metaphor #categories #generalization #mathematics #TheoryofMind #LLM #RL #STEM @cogsci @cognition

I just came across this fascinating study from the summer on how face masks affect our judgments of other people’s emotions—in particular, making them seem overly negative. https://psyarxiv.com/qu96d #TheoryOfMind

@eep

I use #TheoryOfMind more loosely: the designers and their models form the entity behind the prompt of e.g. GPT3 which the user is “talking to”.

The designers when judging model functionality had a certain type of user (likely themselves) in mind.

It’s important to remember that software systems execute the communicative intent of the designers. If software is interactive then there is a “static” Theory of Mind at play.

That is the essence underlying UX design.

See eg Cantwell-Smith

Any #AI model intended for human #interpretation (#consumption) has a #TheoryOfMind baked into it. However until #Cicero by #Meta models were static and rather primitive, and mostly implicit.

The #TheoryOfMind that is in every model is the one which designers had in their minds - implicitly or explicitly - when designing and testing their model.

As the adage goes: humans cannot not communicate.

#LLM #Text2Image #Text2Video #Text23D

#tiktok
#Cicero
#TheoryOfMind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOzYpKi99z4

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/cicero-ai-negotiates-persuades-and-cooperates-with-people

#Cicero by #Meta as well as the #tiktok #recommendation algorithm run approximated models of #TheoryOfMind under artificial conditions b/c the user is fixated by her curiosity to the situation the model was designed for.

The remedy is to stand up and walk away.

What is the threat vector here?

#Bureaucracies governing human essentials like food and water abusing these systems in a situation where humans can’t walk away (imagine a prison camp run by #Cicero or #tiktok)

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/cicero-ai-negotiates-persuades-and-cooperates-with-people/

I don't care much about board games, but I care a lot about #TheoryOfMind, and #Cicero looks like an initial step in that direction?
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade9097

Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science: it has led to premature claims of universality (due to over-sampling of English speakers) and limited the cognitive constructs being examined (due to the use of English as a meta-language).

🐦: https://twitter.com/asifa_majid/status/1581244979061874688

Paper: https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(22)00236-4

#linguistics #language #bias #english #TheoryOfMind #CognitiveScience

First post here - one of my favorite papers that will tell you all about #empathy and #TheoryOfMind
- with Matthias Schurz et al.
https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000303

Our old cat was injured, giving him a temporary limp.

How temporary we found out one day when he limped past us and round a corner. We sneaked a peek to see him bouncing away completely unimpeded.

#TheoryOfMind
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RT @theworldofdog
this dog owner spent $400 to find out why his dog was limping only to learn he was copying him out of sympathy
(jukin media)
https://twitter.com/theworldofdog/status/1545766060770709505