Schulz Lab

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ERC Starting Grant · 2023

Towards an Artificial Cognitive Science

With the advent of capable artificial agents comes the urgency to improve our understanding of how they learn, reason, and decide. This proposal aims to shape a new field of artificial cognitive science in which tools from cognitive psychology are used to understand and improve the behavior of the notoriously opaque artificial agents to which we increasingly delegate autonomy and authority. We will focus on the newly-emerged, disruptive, and increasingly powerful foundation models, huge neural networks with billion of parameters that are trained on hundreds of billions of words, and study them using tools from cognitive psychology. We will subject these models to experimental paradigms from…

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