Guest:

• Melanie Mitchell, Resident Professor, Santa Fe Institute

Hosts: Abha Eli Phoboo

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
• Competition: ARC Prize

Books:

• Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
• Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
• Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell

Talks:

• The Future of Artificial Intelligence by Melanie Mitchell
• Introduction: AI and the Barrier of Meaning 2 by Melanie Mitchell
• Conceptual Abstraction and Analogy in Natural and Artificial Intelligence by Melanie Mitchell

Papers & Articles:

• “The metaphors of artificial intelligence,” in Science (November 14, 2024), doi: 10.1126/science.adt6140
• “Using counterfactual tasks to evaluate the generality of analogical reasoning in Large Language Models,” in arXiv (February 14, 2024), doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2402.08955
• “Comparing humans, GPT-4, and GPT-4V on abstraction and reasoning tasks, ” (Proceedings of the LLM-CP Workshop, AAAI 2024), arXiv (December 11, 2023), doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2311.09247
• “The debate over understanding in AI’s large language models,” in PNAS (March 21, 2023), doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2215907120
• “The ConceptARC benchmark: evaluating understanding and generalization in the ARC domain,” in Transactions on Machine Learning Research (August 2023), arXiv (May 11, 2023), doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.07141