Similar to how I appreciate Prof. Goldsmith’s work, I really appreciate lectures like this by Prof. Andrew Abbott that draws on the historical and social tendency of knowledge, knowing, academic and scholarly affairs that spans over a long time. (It must require years of experience and comprehensive knowledge to be able to give a talk […]

I am fascinated with Yang et al.’s paper on the potential of LMMs and the variety of tasks they show promising potential in. Here are some of the questions I have: Regarding replicability and consistency: I wonder if the examples provided can be replicated with similar/identical prompts with reasonable variance. The example that GPT-4V can […]

In this week’s response I will focus on the TED talk given by OpenAI’s co-founder, Ted Brockmen. A few observations that I had: For the vast majority of people, the most direct and intuitive way to showcase the potential of ChatGPT is still a simple live demo like the one Mr. Brockmen did; while to […]

I express my deepest appreciation and gratitude for Goldsmith and Laks to express their understanding (in a way, their philosophy of the history of cognitive science) on the role of history and the significance of studying it in approaching a discipline. It is such a good paragraph that I will copy it here: “One of […]

To read Ouyang (2022)’s paper, I tried ChatGPT’s PDF plugin to assist reading the paper, and it seems to work well. In this response I will bring up two points, one for my own reaction to the paper and another on the attempt to use ChatGPT assistance. I find the notion of “alignment” very interesting […]

These readings inform me of the history of the development of cognitive science, in particular, how certain concepts that I take for granted (mechanism, machine, computation, information, symbol, etc.) came onto the main stage. There are two main thoughts I had as I read through this history: I noticed a distinctive approach to the Mind-Body […]