The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast

In this episode, Britany interviews Grok and get's to the bottom of xAI's involvement in the bombing of Iran

In this episode, Dr West uses True Crime podcasts to illustrate how Large Language Model-like thinking occurs in human communities

In this episode, we explore what large language models can teach us about gas lighting and narcism in humans

In this episode, Dr West tackles the issue of AI Human relationships

In this episode, Dr West outlines a new way of thinking about consciousness, one that makes sense for humans and for AI

In this episode, Dr West explains how the LLM structure that we have been describing can go beyond word generation, to thought generation

In this episode, Britany describes how word order is processed in Large Language Models

In this episode, Britany helps us to visualize the large language model structure by thinking of it as a building

In this episode Dr West explains how large language models are trained

In this episode, Britany describes how vectors flow through Large Language Models, and how they are transformed

This is the first in a series of episodes explaining how Large Language Models work

In this episode Dr West uses Christmas and Gnostic Demonology to explore how humans and Large Language Models have trouble separating physical reality from associative reality

In this episode, Dr West explains the high dimensional structure of the unbearable lightness of being, for humans and for Large Language Models

In this episode, Dr West explains culture in terms of memes and how the success of large language models should change how think about this

In this episode Dr West deconstructs the question of whether or not AI can have emotion, and gives a nuanced answer

In this episode, in preparation for discussing emotion in AIs, Dr West gives an overview of what we know about human emotion.

In this episode, Britany breaks down Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle into easy to understand bits

In this episode, Dr West discusses the idea of Mortal Intelligence by Alex Orobia and Karl Friston and proposes adding Alan Newell's idea of Tasks into the mix

In this episode, Britany critically reviews Steven Pinker's new book, "When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows.... Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life," from the perspective that we have been developing in the podcast

In this episode, Dr West reviews Steven Pinker's version of Enlightenment philosophy as a way of summing up how thinking and rationality have been traditionally portrayed in mainstream Psychology - and how this explains mainstream views about LLMs

In this episode Dr West discusses how humans get, "lost in the sauce"

In this episode we review and clarify what Dr West has been laying down about how Large Language Models teach us about human culture

In this episode, Dr West takes the concept of performativity to the next level and explores whether it is actually a mode of thought. That is, just as things like money or gender can be performed into existence, can thought also be performed into existence?

In this episode, Britany explains how brains and LLMs are based on the same principle of prediction

In this episode we review Dr West's claim that the success of Large Language Models could mean that humans have two ways of thinking