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Bertram Højer

@brtrm.bsky.social
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CS PhD Student @ IT University of Copenhagen | NLP, AI reasoning and seeming intelligence bertramhojer.github.io | nlpnorth.bsky.social

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Bertram Højer @brtrm.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I wrote a little piece about a pet peeve of mine. People claiming that LLMs "lie". Writing is great to get your thoughts in order and it feels as if there's a bit more at stake when writing for a potential audience. Might do more of these in the future. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Language Models Don't Lie
Discussions and coverage of AI systems such as chatbots based on LLMs uses increasingly anthropomorphic language, such as claiming that LLMs lie. But LLMs cannot lie, and here's why.
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NLPnorth @nlpnorth.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
📣 Next week we will be in Vienna for @aclmeeting.bsky.social to present a couple of works from our lab! Find more about each of them below 🧵👇 #NLP #NLProc #ACL2025NLP @itu.dk @aicentre.dk
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Bertram Højer @brtrm.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
If you don't think I provided enough interesting findings in my last post, @annarogers.bsky.social has you covered in her latest post on our paper! ✨
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Anna Rogers @annarogers.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
📢 The Copenhagen NLP Symposium on June 20th! - Invited talks by @loubnabnl.hf.co (HF) @mziizm.bsky.social (Cohere) @najoung.bsky.social (BU) @kylelo.bsky.social (AI2) Yohei Oseki (UTokyo) - Exciting posters by other participants Register to attend and/or present your poster at cphnlp.github.io /1
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Copenhagen NLP Symposium 2025
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Bertram Højer @brtrm.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Our survey paper "Research Community Perspectives on 'Intelligence' and Large Language Models" has been accepted to the ACL Findings 2025 - and I'll be in Vienna to present the work in July! arxiv.org/abs/2505.20959
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Research Community Perspectives on "Intelligence" and Large Language Models
Despite the widespread use of ''artificial intelligence'' (AI) framing in Natural Language Processing (NLP) research, it is not clear what researchers mean by ''intelligence''. To that end, we present...
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Bertram Højer @brtrm.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
If you’re at ICLR, swing by poster #246 on Saturday from 10-12.30 to hear more about our work on modulating the reasoning performance of LLMs! #ICLR2025
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/04/2025
The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
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Bertram Højer @brtrm.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
ICLR is coming up and I thought I'd use the chance to advertise our paper: "Improving 'Reasoning' Performance in Large Language Models via Representation Engineering" ✨ Also happens to be my first publication as a PhD Student at @itu.dk ❗
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Improving Reasoning Performance in Large Language Models via...
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have resulted in increasingly anthropomorphic language concerning the ability of LLMs to reason. Whether \textit{reasoning} in LLMs should be...
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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
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Bertram Højer @brtrm.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
It’s a bit disturbing to hear Ezra Klein, someone I admire a lot, stating that “… virtually everyone working in this area (AI) are saying that [AGI] is coming”. In my view this is a gross misrepresentation of the actual sentiment in the field.
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Bertram Højer @brtrm.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Very harsh writing by Edward Zitron - but he voices concerns I have myself. Developing helpful 'AI' systems could provide value, but the way current commercial 'AI' systems are being hyped is not very helpful and quite likely detrimental. www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/
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The Generative AI Con
It's been just over two years and two months since ChatGPT launched, and in that time we've seen Large Language Models (LLMs) blossom from a novel concept into one of the most craven cons of the 21st ...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/02/2025
Not to mention that rather than being well-established observations, (1) is difficult if not impossible to assess without a proper definition of intelligence and (3) seems to be complete blather.
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Three Observations
Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity.  Systems that start to point to AGI* are coming into view, and so we think it’s important to...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/02/2025
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com
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INTRODUCTION
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Bertram Højer @brtrm.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The "Perspectives on Intelligence" survey is now closed! Thank you to the 200+ researchers who participated. Currently analyzing the data and writing up the findings - stay tuned for the paper! Project in collaboration with @terne.bsky.social, @annarogers.bsky.social & @heinrichst.bsky.social!
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Perspectives on Intelligence: Community Survey
Research survey exploring how NLP/ML/CogSci researchers define and use the concept of intelligence.
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Bertram Højer @brtrm.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Do researchers in AI related fields believe that state-of-the-art language models are intelligent? And how do we even define intelligence? If you haven't yet responded consider taking part in our survey. We'd love to hear your take! Details and link in original post👇 !
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Bertram Højer @brtrm.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Very cool paper on the internal dynamics of reasoning in LMs. The approach (Chain of Continuous Thought) lets models reason in continuous latent space rather than being constrained to generating specific tokens. arxiv.org/abs/2412.06769
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Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space
Large language models (LLMs) are restricted to reason in the "language space", where they typically express the reasoning process with a chain-of-thought (CoT) to solve a complex reasoning problem. Ho...
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Bertram Højer @brtrm.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
What do YOU mean by "intelligence", and does ChatGPT fit your definition? We collected the major criteria used in CogSci and other fields, and designed a survey to find out! Access link: www.survey-xact.dk/collect Code: 4S7V-SN4M-S536 Time: 5-10 mins
bertramhojer.github.io
Perspectives on Intelligence: Community Survey
Research survey exploring how NLP/ML/CogSci researchers define and use the concept of intelligence.
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