4 papers
Competitive and Complementary Tools
David C. Krakauer
Humans have always externalized thought onto tools, from the tally and the abacus to the map and, now, large language models. I model the agent, the tool, and the task as one dynam…
The Rise and Fall of in AGI
David C. Krakauer
In the psychological literature the term `general intelligence' describes correlations between abilities and not simply the number of abilities. This paper connects Spearman's -…
Universality in Collective Intelligence on the Rubik's Cube
David Krakauer, Gülce KardeÅ, Joshua Grochow
Progress in understanding expert performance is limited by the scarcity of quantitative data on long-term knowledge acquisition and deployment. Here we use the Rubik's Cube as a co…
Physical Complexity of a Cognitive Artifact
Gülce KardeÅ, David Krakauer, Joshua Grochow
Cognitive science and theoretical computer science both seek to classify and explain the difficulty of tasks. Mechanisms of intelligence are those that reduce task difficulty. Here…