The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast

This is the first episode in a two part series on AI and the ideas of Judith Butler. In this episode, Dr West explains how the concept of Performativity sheds light on the way that humans and AIs perform intelligence

In this episode Dr West explains how humans are the same as and different from Large language Models, using Alan Newell’s concept of the Knowledge Level

In this episode Dr West provides a high level, discursive description of how Large Language Models work. However, we have recently redone this as a series of shorter, more focused episodes, so we recommend those if you want a more thorough, systematic account

In this podcast, Dr West describes the genetic evidence that human IQ is not genetic and ponders the implications of this for AI development

In this episode, Dr West interviews ChatGPT about its beliefs on whether or not it's conscious, and where these beliefs come from

In this episode Dr West jumps into the deep end of the pool and discusses whether or not LLMs. such as Chat GPT, are Turing Machines, and what it means to ask this question. If you are unfamiliar with LLMs you might want to listen to the episode on how ChatGPT works before this one

In this podcast, Dr West tries to explain what this podcast series is about