Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 5: How do we assess intelligence?

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Erica Cartmill, Professor, Anthropology and Cognitive Science, Indiana University Bloomington
Ellie Pavlick, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Linguistics, Brown University

Hosts: Abha Eli Phoboo & Melanie Mitchell

Producer: Katherine Moncure

Podcast theme music by: Mitch Mignano

More info:

Tutorial: Fundamentals of Machine Learning
Lecture: Artificial Intelligence
SFI programs: Education
Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute

Books:

Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell

Talks:

How do we know what an animal understands by Erica Cartmill
The Future of Artificial Intelligence by Melanie Mitchell

Papers & Articles:

“Just kidding: the evolutionary roots of playful teasing,” in Biology Letters (September 23, 2020), doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0370
“Overcoming bias in the comparison of human language and animal communication,” in PNAS (November 13, 2023), doi.org/10.1073/pnas.22187991
“Using the senses in animal communication,” by Erica Cartmill, in A New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology, Chapter 20, Wiley Online Library (March 21, 2023)
“Symbols and grounding in large language models,” in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A (June 5, 2023), doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2022.0041
“Emergence of abstract state representations in embodied sequence modeling,” in arXiv (November 7, 2023), doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2311.02171
“How do we know how smart AI systems are,” in Science (July 13, 2023), doi: 10.1126/science.adj59

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