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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models
Shubhra Mishra, Yuka Machino, Gabriel Poesia +9
The evolution of mathematics is shaped importantly by interestingness: researchers choose which problems to pursue, and students choose which problems to engage with, based on expe…
People use fast and flat simulation to reason about new games
Katherine M. Collins, Cedegao E. Zhang, Lionel Wong +6
Games have long been a microcosm for studying planning and reasoning in both natural and artificial intelligence (AI), often focusing on expert-level or even super-human play. But…
Evaluating Language Models' Evaluations of Games
Katherine M. Collins, Cedegao E. Zhang, Graham Todd +9
Reasoning is not just about solving problems -- it is also about evaluating which problems are worth solving at all. Evaluations of artificial intelligence (AI) systems primarily f…
ExoPredicator: Learning Abstract Models of Dynamic Worlds for Robot Planning
Yichao Liang, Dat Nguyen, Cambridge Yang +7
Long-horizon embodied planning is challenging because the world does not only change through an agent's actions: exogenous processes (e.g., water heating, dominoes cascading) unfol…
Generation and Evaluation in the Human Invention Process through the Lens of Game Design
Katherine M. Collins, Graham Todd, Cedegao E. Zhang +6
The human ability to learn rules and solve problems has been a central concern of cognitive science research since the field's earliest days. But we do not just follow rules and so…
Assessing Adaptive World Models in Machines with Novel Games
Lance Ying, Katherine M. Collins, Prafull Sharma +11
Human intelligence exhibits a remarkable capacity for rapid adaptation and effective problem-solving in novel and unfamiliar contexts. We argue that this profound adaptability is f…
Modeling Open-World Cognition as On-Demand Synthesis of Probabilistic Models
Lionel Wong, Katherine M. Collins, Lance Ying +8
When faced with novel situations, people are able to marshal relevant considerations from a wide range of background knowledge and put these to use in inferences and predictions. W…
Empathy in Explanation
Katherine M. Collins, Kartik Chandra, Adrian Weller +2
Why do we give the explanations we do? Recent work has suggested that we should think of explanation as a kind of cooperative social interaction, between a why-question-asker and a…
Identifying, Evaluating, and Mitigating Risks of AI Thought Partnerships
Kerem Oktar, Katherine M. Collins, Jose Hernandez-Orallo +4
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems have historically been used as tools that execute narrowly defined tasks. Yet recent advances in AI have unlocked possibilities for a new class…
PoE-World: Compositional World Modeling with Products of Programmatic Experts
Wasu Top Piriyakulkij, Yichao Liang, Hao Tang +3
Learning how the world works is central to building AI agents that can adapt to complex environments. Traditional world models based on deep learning demand vast amounts of trainin…
On Benchmarking Human-Like Intelligence in Machines
Lance Ying, Katherine M. Collins, Lionel Wong +6
Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have yielded powerful computational models that, by learning from vast amounts of human-generated data, are increasingly posited as…