Guests:

• Erica Cartmill, Professor, Anthropology and Cognitive Science, Indiana University Bloomington
• Ellie Pavlick, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Linguistics, Brown University

Hosts: Abha Eli Phoboo & Melanie Mitchell

Producer: Katherine Moncure

Podcast theme music by: Mitch Mignano

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More info:

• Tutorial: Fundamentals of Machine Learning
• Lecture: Artificial Intelligence
• SFI programs: Education
• Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute

Books:

• Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell

Talks:

• How do we know what an animal understands by Erica Cartmill
• The Future of Artificial Intelligence by Melanie Mitchell

Papers & Articles:

• “Just kidding: the evolutionary roots of playful teasing,” in Biology Letters (September 23, 2020), doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0370
• “Overcoming bias in the comparison of human language and animal communication,” in PNAS (November 13, 2023), doi.org/10.1073/pnas.22187991
• “Using the senses in animal communication,” by Erica Cartmill, in A New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology, Chapter 20, Wiley Online Library (March 21, 2023)
• “Symbols and grounding in large language models,” in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A (June 5, 2023), doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2022.0041
• “Emergence of abstract state representations in embodied sequence modeling,” in arXiv (November 7, 2023), doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2311.02171
• “How do we know how smart AI systems are,” in Science (July 13, 2023), doi: 10.1126/science.adj59