Archive · 2024-05-20
AI ethics on Monday, 20 May 2024
2 items published this day, across 1 categories.
Research (2)
Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress
Preparation requires technical research and development, as well as adaptive, proactive governance.
Testing theory of mind in large language models and humans
At the core of what defines us as humans is the concept of theory of mind: the ability to track other people's mental states. The recent development of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT has led to intense debate about the possibility that these models exhibit behaviour that is indistinguishable from human behaviour in theory of mind tasks. Here we compare human and LLM performance on a comprehensive battery of measurements that aim to measure different theory of mind abilities, from u