This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…| Iris van Rooij
Perhaps one of the most persistent myths in science—one that also pervades public perception of science—is that it provides a value-free method to arrive at objective Truth, with a big ‘T’. This my…| Iris van Rooij
Here, I compile a set of videos that complement a course on computational complexity for cognitive scientists that I co-teach with Nils Donselaar. We use the textbook Cognition and Intractability, …| Iris van Rooij
Have you heard these claims? “Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is imminent!” or “At current rate of progress, AGI is inevitable!” In a recent preprint, my co-authors an…| Iris van Rooij
Here I collect a selected set of critical lenses on so-called1 ‘AI’, including the recently hyped ChatGPT. I hope these resources are useful for others as well, and help make insightful…| Iris van Rooij
June 20-24, 2022, the Lorentz Workshop “What makes a good theory? Interdisciplinary perspectives” (organised by Berna Devezer, Joshua Skewes, Sashank Varma, Todd Wareham, and myself) to…| Iris van Rooij
Robert Long recently wrote a blog: Five ways the mind does not solve computationally intractable problems (and one way it does). It summarises a paper that I co-wrote. To be fra…| Iris van Rooij
Every now and then I write twitter threads about papers (both ones I read and ones I’ve written) and talks (ones I gave and ones I’ve seen). Someone suggested once that it may be a good…| Iris van Rooij
Cite as: van Rooij, I. (2022) Against automated plagiarism. I’ve been asked, in various roles1, to give my opinion on the challenges posed by Large Language Models (LLMs)2, also known as R…| Iris van Rooij
Three weeks ago, I wrote a blogpost about how ChatGPT is a “stochastic parrot” (a term coined by Bender, Gebru, McMillan-Major, & Shmitchell, 2021; see also this video for an explan…| Iris van Rooij
