collaborators

6 papers

cs.CY2025

Developing a General Personal Tutor for Education

Jaan Aru, Kristjan-Julius Laak

The vision of a universal AI tutor has remained elusive, despite decades of effort. Could LLMs be the game-changer? We overview novel issues arising from developing a nationwide AI…

q-bio.NC2025

Do psychic cells generate consciousness?

Mototaka Suzuki, Jaan Aru

Technological advances in the past decades have begun to enable neuroscientists to address fundamental questions about consciousness in an unprecedented way. Here we review remarka…

cs.CV2025

Interpreting the structure of multi-object representations in vision encoders

Tarun Khajuria, Braian Olmiro Dias, Marharyta Domnich +1

In this work, we interpret the representations of multi-object scenes in vision encoders through the lens of structured representations. Structured representations allow modeling o…

cs.CY2025

AI and personalized learning: bridging the gap with modern educational goals

Kristjan-Julius Laak, Jaan Aru

Personalized learning (PL) aspires to provide an alternative to the one-size-fits-all approach in education. Technology-based PL solutions have shown notable effectiveness in enhan…

cs.CY2025

Short-term AI literacy intervention does not reduce over-reliance on incorrect ChatGPT recommendations

Brett Puppart, Jaan Aru

In this study, we examined whether a short-form AI literacy intervention could reduce the adoption of incorrect recommendations from large language models. High school seniors were…

cs.HC2025

Haunted House: A text-based game for comparing the flexibility of mental models in humans and LLMs

Brett Puppart, Paul-Henry Paltmann, Jaan Aru

This study introduces "Haunted House" a novel text-based game designed to compare the performance of humans and large language models (LLMs) in model-based reasoning. Players must…