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The Debate Over Understanding in AI's Large Language Models
Melanie Mitchell, David C. Krakauer
We survey a current, heated debate in the AI research community on whether large pre-trained language models can be said to "understand" language -- and the physical and social sit…
Outsourcing Memory Through Niche Construction
Edward D. Lee, Jessica C. Flack, David C. Krakauer
Adaptation to changing environments is a universal feature of life and can involve the organism modifying itself in response to the environment as well as actively modifying the en…
Simulation Intelligence: Towards a New Generation of Scientific Methods
Alexander Lavin, David Krakauer, Hector Zenil +21
The original "Seven Motifs" set forth a roadmap of essential methods for the field of scientific computing, where a motif is an algorithmic method that captures a pattern of comput…
Emergent regularities and scaling in armed conflict data
Edward D. Lee, Bryan C. Daniels, Christopher R. Myers +2
Armed conflict exhibits regularities beyond known power law distributions of fatalities and duration over varying culture and geography. We systematically cluster conflict reports…
The Cultural Evolution of National Constitutions
Daniel N. Rockmore, Chen Fang, Nicholas J. Foti +2
We explore how ideas from infectious disease and genetics can be used to uncover patterns of cultural inheritance and innovation in a corpus of 591 national constitutions spanning…
Control of critical behavior in a small-scale social system
Bryan C. Daniels, David C. Krakauer, Jessica C. Flack
Over the last decade new technologies for making large numbers of fine-grained measurements have led to the surprising discovery that many biological systems sit near a critical po…