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Helen De Cruz is a trailblazer for creative, avant-garde approaches to thinking in community with others. This event celebrates her work. On Zoom: https://tulane.zoom.us/j/6185944474 Tues June 24t...

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Historically, the close-knit relationship between design and construction ensured that built architecture harmonised with its local context and users, as it originated from the shared experiences o...

Glickman and Sharot reveal a human–AI feedback loop, where AI amplifies subtle human biases, which are then further internalized by humans. This cycle, observed across various domains, leads to substa...

There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas

In their recent Opinion in TiCS [1], Yildirim and Paul propose that large language models (LLMs) have ‘instrumental knowledge’ and possibly the kind of ‘worldly’ knowledge that humans do. They suggest that the production of appropriate outputs by LMMs is evidence that LLMs infer ‘task structure’ that may reflect ‘causal abstractions of… entities and processes in the real world’ [1]. While we agree that LLMs are impressive and potentially interesting for cognitive science, we resist this project on two grounds.