Theory Of Mind
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Pollan: Complex Social Interactions Cannot Be Mechanically Automated Without Consciousness
“I also think consciousness is really helpful in a social situation. When you're dealing with a world that is fundamentally unpredictable. That is to say what other people are going to do at any given time, what other people are going to say at any given time. …”
Shear: Human Goal Inference Succeeds Due to Built-In Theory of Mind
“The reason humans are so good at this is we have a really excellent theory of mind. I already know what you're likely to ask me to do. I already have a good model of what your goals probably are. So if you ask me to do it, I have an easy inference problem.”
Brown: AI models implicitly develop theory of mind through scale
“If these models become smart enough, they develop things like theory of mind. They develop an understanding that there are other agents that like can take actions and have motives and all this stuff. And these models just develop that implicitly with scale and…”
Bach: LLMs Demonstrate Theory of Mind from Conversational Context
“When you ask the LLM to make inferences about your mental state based on the conversation that you have, it's able to demonstrate that it has a theory of mind.”
Theory of mind in AI is an emergent property of scale
“Yeah, just make the thing smarter. It's gonna have a better theory of mind, and I think that's definitely something massively, massively important. It seems like one of these emergent properties that just Is gonna, going to come with scale.”
Chen: Effective AI coaches require three core infant cognitive traits
“The ability to form what psychologists call a theory of mind. In other words, a prediction that of other people's desires and goals and emotions. The ability to break a task down into sub tasks without seeing thousands of similar examples. And third, and maybe…”