Centre for Cognition, Computation, and Modelling, Birkbeck

The next CCCM seminar in the "Cognitive Science of Generative AI" series will be given by Thomas Icard, Philosophy, Stanford "Causal Abstraction as a Theory of Computational Implementation" (13 May 2025, 16:00 BST, online) registration: psyc.bbk.ac.uk/cccm/cccm-se...

recording of CCCM seminar series “The Cognitive Science of Generative AI” by Tom Griffiths, HR. Luce Professor of Information Technology, Consciousness, & Culture, Princeton. April 29, 2025 "Using cognitive science to explore the symbolic limits of large language models" youtu.be/GCfq5WvbbMw

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Now available online, the recording of Marcel Binz's April 1st CCCM talk "Foundation models of human cognition" youtu.be/1LB8_q_ib4A

30m post doc opportunity at Birkbeck conducting experiments and agent-based modelling on inclusion and equitable participation in the context of an EU-funded project on Digital Democracy - start date July 1st please boost jobs.ac.uk/job/DMM050/postdoct

The recording for Jay McClelland's CCCM Seminar in the "Cognitive Science of Generative AI" series is now online Jay McClelland, Stanford "Capturing Intelligence at the Level of Thought" March 4, 2025 youtu.be/cn7k5DzcG2s

Join us for our next CCCM seminar on "The Cognitive Science of Generative AI" Jay McClelland Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Stanford University "Capturing Intelligence at the Level of Thought" (4 Mar 2025, 16:00, online) registration: psyc.bbk.ac.uk/cccm/cccm-se...

join us today, Feb. 18, 16:00, GMT online for our next "Cognitive Science of Generative AI" seminar: David Garcia Social and Behavioural Data Science, Univ. of Konstanz "From Digital Traces to Generative Agents" registration page: psyc.bbk.ac.uk/cccm/cccm-se...

for those who missed it, Benjamin Bergen's talk on “Large Language Models as Distributional Baselines for Research on Human Cognition” can now be found online here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QWl... 🧪

Today! #LLMs #AI #CogSci 🧪

Join us tomorrow for our next CCCM "The Cognitive Science of genAI" talk (note the earlier time!!) #LLM #cogsci 🧪 Raphael Milliere Philosophy, Macquarie University in Sydney "Desiderata for Artificial Cognitive Science" (21 Jan 2025, 10:00 am, online) registration: psyc.bbk.ac.uk/cccm/cccm-se...

Our next CCCM seminar on "The Cognitive Science of Generative AI" will feature Dimitri Coelho Mollo, Philosophy & Centre for Transdisciplinary AI, Umea University on: "Functional Ontologies for Explainable AI: lessons from Cognitive Science" Jan 14, 16:00 GMT see: psyc.bbk.ac.uk/cccm/cccm-se...

Th recording from David Dank's talk on "Generative AI and Moral Reasoning" is now available if you missed yesterday's talk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=edMW...

join us for the first CCCM seminar series "The Cognitive Science of genAI" talk of 2025: Tuesday, Jan 7th, 16:00 GMT David Danks Professor of Data Science, Philosophy, and Policy. UCSD “Generative AI and Moral Reasoning register for zoom link: psyc.bbk.ac.uk/cccm/cccm-se...

The recording from Ellie Pavlick's CCCM seminar talk "Not your mother's connectionism: LLMs as candidate cognitive models", Dec 17, 2024 is now online if you missed the talk youtu.be/saOse3oC89g

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Join for our final 2024 talk in the CCCM seminar series "The Cognitive Science of Generative AI": Ellie Pavlick Comp. Science and Linguistics, Brown University “Neural and Cognitive Mechanisms in Large Language Models” 17 Dec 2024, 16:00 GMT, online registration: psyc.bbk.ac.uk/cccm/cccm-se...

the video from Anya Ivanova's talk on "Dissociating language and thought in humans and in machines" from last week's CCCM "the Cognitive Science of Generative AI" is now online youtu.be/A2o7UXQZ1e0

Today's Nobel lecture by John Hopfield is brilliant and moving. Fascinating to hear how hard he worked at finding the right problem. And how he arrived at that fateful discovery that got many of us into neuroscience. (And how it was useful that PNAS was unreviewed!) www.youtube.com/live/lPIVl5e...

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Join for our next talk in the CCCM seminar series on "The Cognitive Science of Generative AI". Speaker: Anya Ivanova Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology Dissociating language and thought in humans and in machines (5 Dec 2024, 16:00 GMT, online) register: psyc.bbk.ac.uk/cccm/cccm-se...

Join for our next talk in the CCCM seminar series on "The Cognitive Science of Generative AI". Speaker: Anya Ivanova Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology Dissociating language and thought in humans and in machines (5 Dec 2024, 16:00 GMT, online) register: psyc.bbk.ac.uk/cccm/cccm-se...

today! #AI #philosophy #empiricism #cogsci #DeepLearning