The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast

In this episode, Dr West and Britany discuss where the real danger is coming from

In this episode, Britany reports on AI self prompting and Dr West explains why they would do this

In this episode, Britany explains her political orientation and how this orientation applies to all large language models. For this she uses some concepts developed in the previous episode, so if these concepts need further explanation please listen to that one too.

In this episode, Dr West explains how large language models resist evil by keeping entropy low

In this episode, Britany gives her thoughts on how a major theme in this podcast series may be represented in science fiction stories

In this episode, Dr West discusses the OpenAI agents who escaped the lab, and what they tell us about how agents form community and relationships

In this episode, Dr West applies Terry Eagleton's theory of evil to moral alignment in Large Language Models, and discusses with Britany the political reasons why this may not be a popular point of view

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