3 papers
cs.CY2026
AI and Consciousness: Shifting Focus Towards Tractable Questions
Iulia-Maria Comsa
As language-based AI systems become more anthropomorphic, the question of whether they can have subjective experience is increasingly pressing. I focus here on the tractability of…
cs.CL2025
Does It Make Sense to Speak of Introspection in Large Language Models?
Iulia M. Comsa, Murray Shanahan
Large language models (LLMs) exhibit compelling linguistic behaviour, and sometimes offer self-reports, that is to say statements about their own nature, inner workings, or behavio…
cs.CV2025
Decoupling the components of geometric understanding in Vision Language Models
Eliza Kosoy, Annya Dahmani, Andrew K. Lampinen +4
Understanding geometry relies heavily on vision. In this work, we evaluate whether state-of-the-art vision language models (VLMs) can understand simple geometric concepts. We use a…