Felix Sosa

Over the weeks, I've been making youtube vids to help students & researchers build a better intuition about the limits of #ai #machinelearning & #cognitivescience and what could be done to break through those limits. First vid out: youtube.com/watch?v=lOfJVX… Lmk what you think!

Why isn’t modern AI built around principles from cognitive science or neuroscience? Starting a new substack (link below) by writing down my thoughts on that question: as part of a first series of posts giving my current thoughts on the relation between these fields. 1/3

@pfau I think if your only conception of how to make AI better is via GPUs, it’s unsurprising

Jfc they're really gonna try to turn the planet into computronium aren't they.

So do I :). Happy to see this out in Cognition! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I'm recruiting PhD students + postdocs for my lab, coming to @JohnsHopkins in Fall 2025! Our brand new lab is at the intersection of cognitive science and AI, using computational + behavioral methods to understand how language works in minds and machines. Details below! (1/4)

@VineethLogan @dileeplearning jpeg's basilisk

Intelligence needs compression, but is not compression.

Compression is a byproduct of intelligence. Intelligence aims to recover the data generating process, and that representation happens to compress.

Y'all reaaaaally missed out if you didn't show (thanks @tiwa_eisape for photo)

If you're at #CogSci2024 and interested in nonsense (literally) and impossibilities + the differences in how people and LLMs reason about them, listen to @_jennhu talk about our work! I'd write a thread about it but too busy trying to get NNs to play nice with physics engines

@_jennhu you're welcome, now go solve language :)

@flxsosa Thank you, Felix!! 😁🙏

Jenn is *the* person to work with if you’re interested in cogsci, language, and AI. She’s also an awesome collaborator. Highly recommend folks interested in phd reach out

I’m excited to have played a small part in organizing this, and encourage any academics, VCs, and founders interested in how we might better build intelligent machines outside of the lab to join!

@TomerUllman AI finally answering important questions

I'm sorry, but this is "The Ideal Male Body" (MidJourney AI)

google engineers: Do you feel emotions? chatbot: I feel emotions such as good, and bad. google engineers: Wow

@TaliaRinger I use notion because I kept losing track of the emails

I sent myself exactly one email during a party yesterday and I'm such a loser

@bayesianboy @rebekahentralgo They’re just misspelling your name

Eva Wittenberg, @abhilashaakumar and Charles Kemp are launching a pilot ✨CogSci Lab Exchange program✨ to match early career researchers with #CogSci labs for remote talks! Check out to submit a listing or reach out to a host if you would like to present. cskemp.github.io/labexchange/in…

New work with @yyyxiang and @natvelali exploring the intuitive theory of collaboration.