Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 5: How do we assess intelligence?

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 Follow us on: Twitter • YouTube • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedIn • Bluesky 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