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Eric Elmoznino

@ericelmoznino.bsky.social

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PhD student at Mila interested in AI, cognitive neuroscience, and consciousness

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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

My paper with @ericelmoznino.bsky.social on AI consciousness and the danger of people seeing it (whether or not it is there) is out in @science.org. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Illusions of AI consciousness

The belief that AI is conscious is not without risk

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Eric Elmoznino @ericelmoznino.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Yup. But those approaches define composition from the outside, with respect to *given* some parts and rules. For instance, is this sentence compositional w.r.t. the rules and vocab of English. What I’m proposing defines compositionality intrinsically within some data, which has advantages.

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Eric Elmoznino @ericelmoznino.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Very excited to release a new blog post that formalizes what it means for data to be compositional, and shows how compositionality can exist at multiple scales. Early days, but I think there may be significant implications for AI. Check it out! ericelmoznino.github.io/blog/2025/08...

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Defining and quantifying compositional structure

What is compositionality? For those of us working in AI or cognitive neuroscience this question can appear easy at first, but becomes increasingly perplexing the more we think about it. We aren’t shor...

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