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If you're at #NeurIPS2024 today, check out our paper "Bridging semantics and pragmatics in information-theoretic emergent communication" neurips.cc/virtual/2024/p… Poster session: Fri Dec 13, 2-5pm, #3711 w/ Eleonora Roger Levy Mycal Tucker

Thank you so much to all the people that came to discuss our research! This paper was such a fun and exciting collaboration 🔥

Why do diverse ANNs resemble brain representations? Check out our new paper with Colton Casto, Noga Zaslavsky, Colin Conwell, Mark Richardson MD PhD, & Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 on “Universality of representation in biological and artificial neural networks.” 🧠🤖 tinyurl.com/yckndmjt (1/n)

So Very excited about new paper with Simon Kirby and Ellen Garland. We used infant-inspired tools to analyze humpback whale song, finding recurring parts that follow a Zifpian distribution science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Imagine running a restaurant & suddenly only having budget for ingredients & chefs—no rent, electricity, heat, water, support staff, insurance, trash, toilet paper. This is what 'cutting indirects' did to every major biomedical center & hospital in the US.

Out today in Nature Machine Intelligence! From childhood on, people can create novel, playful, and creative goals. Models have yet to capture this ability. We propose a new way to represent goals and report a model that can generate human-like goals in a playful setting... 1/N

Nothing inspires more than the humility of someone with great accomplishments. I hope that generations of researchers will pay attention to the wise words of Rich! (Coming back to X just to post this.)

Excited to share our new paper "Towards Human-Like Emergent Communication via Utility, Informativeness, and Complexity" direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/d… (w/ Mycal Tucker Julie Shah Roger Levy) And looking forward to speaking about this line of work tomorrow at NYU Center for Data Science!

I'm honored and delighted that I was elected to the National Academy of Sciences today! nasonline.org/news/2025-nas-…

We're still accepting apps for our research scientist position with LEVANTE (levante-network.org). This position is ideal for folks wanting to interface between a scientific project and an awesome team of software developers. A technical product manager, but for science!

This month I'm celebrating a decade (!!) since my first paper was published, which now has over 2,000 citations 🥹 "Deep learning and the information bottleneck principle" with the late, great Tali Tishby ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/71331…

Thrilled to announce I’ll be joining Purdue Computer Science as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2026! My lab will work on AI thought partners, machines that think with people rather than instead of people – I'll be recruiting PhD students this upcoming cycle so reach out & apply if interested!

Hi Prolific, your platform is great (I am one of your first users, and very pleased) but recently there is a huge uptick in AI use in tasks that require open text. We explicitly tell participants not to use GPT et al., disallow copy+paste, but it is still quite clear that in

77 years ago this week Claude Shannon ushered in the field of information theory with his paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication," which has been cited over 100,000 times: bit.ly/44rfByX

Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s41586…

📢 I'm looking for a postdoc to join my lab at NYU! Come work with me on a principled, theory-driven approach to studying language, learning, and reasoning, in humans and AI agents. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/170656 And come chat with me at #CogSci2025 if interested!

Today we open-sourced a new project for developing behavioral experiments online. It is called Smile. Announcement of v0.1.0: todd.gureckislab.org/2025/07/22/s... Smile has been used internally in my lab for several years and has substantially increased our productivity.

🧵 In our earlier threads, we explored what it means to learn to reason, why it’s hard, and why many current approaches fall short. Now let’s dive into one of the core proofs from our paper. Appendix A of our paper shows that an auto-regressive transformer cannot learn to