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James Evans

@profjamesevans

Max Palevsky Professor of Sociology, Computational & Data Science @UChicago, Santa Fe Institute, & Google tweeting about science, technology, and AI in society.

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I'm excited about our two newest forthcoming pieces that explore the rapidly expanding potential (and evolving limits) of simulating people and society with LLMs at scale: arxiv.org/abs/2504.02234 and osf.io/preprints/soca…. There are challenges and will necessarily be misuses

I'm excited about our two newest forthcoming pieces that explore the rapidly expanding potential (and evolving limits) of simulating people and society with LLMs at scale: arxiv.org/abs/2504.02234 and osf.io/preprints/soca…. There are challenges and will necessarily be misuses
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I'm thrilled about this new work that demonstrates the existence of cultural world models within LLMs and how local cultural and linguistic knowledge is conserved and controllable within them. To be clear, this doesn't yet occur "for free", but this makes clear how intelligent

I'm thrilled about this new work that demonstrates the existence of cultural world models within LLMs and how local cultural and linguistic knowledge is conserved and controllable within them. To be clear, this doesn't yet occur "for free", but this makes clear how intelligent
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There are now many studies done in many academic labs and firms; and there will ever be a once-and-for-all demonstration of robust. The models are too complex. This will require validation by model-elicitation-task.

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Why do scientists disagree? With the amazing Justin Sulik, Nakwon Rim, Elizabeth Pontikes, and Gary Lupyan, we show in Nature Human Behaviour how cognitive traits and dispositions align with persistent scientific divides, using article text, references, surveys, and the same cognitive

Why do scientists disagree? With the amazing Justin Sulik, <a href="/NakWonRim/">Nakwon Rim</a>, Elizabeth Pontikes, and <a href="/glupyan/">Gary Lupyan</a>, we show in <a href="/NatureHumBehav/">Nature Human Behaviour</a> how cognitive traits and dispositions align with persistent scientific divides, using article text, references, surveys, and the same cognitive
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This was a fascinating discussion with the BigBrains team @ UChicago. Thx for having me on and the far-ranging questions (over two sessions)!

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Binz et al. (in press, Nature) developed an LLM called Centaur that better predicts human responses in 159 of 160 behavioural experiments compared to existing cognitive models. See: x.com/marcel_binz/st…

Binz et al. (in press, Nature) developed an LLM called Centaur that better predicts human responses in 159 of 160 behavioural experiments compared to existing cognitive models.  See: x.com/marcel_binz/st…
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Hearing news from “the people” seems to actually be founded on their best predictions of what we want to hear…

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🧠✨ Thrilled to share our latest AI work led by the brilliant Haizi Yu and Lav Varshney! We've developed a white-box AI model that learns like humans do - from just ONE example, no pretraining needed. (rdcu.be/ev44p) Our "distortable canvas" mimics how babies might

🧠✨ Thrilled to share our latest AI work led by the brilliant Haizi Yu and <a href="/lrvarshney/">Lav Varshney</a>! We've developed a white-box AI model that learns like humans do - from just ONE example, no pretraining needed. (rdcu.be/ev44p)

Our "distortable canvas" mimics how babies might
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Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

Yes. 

Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking.

Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.