3 papers
cs.CL2026
CREATE: Testing LLMs for Associative Creativity
Manya Wadhwa, Tiasa Singha Roy, Harvey Lederman +2
A key component of creativity is associative reasoning: the ability to draw novel yet meaningful connections between concepts. We introduce CREATE, a benchmark designed to evaluate…
cs.AI2025
Privileged Self-Access Matters for Introspection in AI
Siyuan Song, Harvey Lederman, Jennifer Hu +1
Whether AI models can introspect is an increasingly important practical question. But there is no consensus on how introspection is to be defined. Beginning from a recently propose…
cs.CL2024
Are Language Models More Like Libraries or Like Librarians? Bibliotechnism, the Novel Reference Problem, and the Attitudes of LLMs
Harvey Lederman, Kyle Mahowald
Are LLMs cultural technologies like photocopiers or printing presses, which transmit information but cannot create new content? A challenge for this idea, which we call bibliotechn…