Excited to announce our latest #ICLR work on long-context/relational reasoning evaluation for LLMs ReCogLab! openreview.net/pdf?id=yORSk4Y… github.com/google-deepmin… Work with Andrew Liu, Henry Prior Gargi Balasubramaniam Kim Stachenfeld (neurokim.bsky.social) and others at Google DeepMind

Make a few more of these ... Make a LOT more of these ... Gemini 2.0 native image output is enabling a new way to prompt: instructing with image and text together. Subtle shifts in how I draw change how Gemini interprets the same text prompt.

"Every citizen and officeholder who cares about the strength of our country ... should demand a stop to the government’s unwarranted intrusion on academic freedom at Columbia." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

My new WIRED piece about arXiv: either 1) the most important website you've never heard of or 2) the platform your entire field depends on Also had the pleasure of hanging out with its creator, Paul Ginsparg—the Forrest Gump of the Internet age

I'm excited to release the PokéChamp dataset! 🎮 2 million cleaned battle logs from Pokémon Showdown to help train expert-level AI agents for competitive Pokémon. Check out the data on Hugging Face and code on GitHub! 🔗 huggingface.co/datasets/milkk… 🔗 github.com/sethkarten/pok…

We are looking for a new lab manager, shared with the Concepts and Cognition Lab of Tania Lombrozo. Apply here: research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/20656/res…

Are you interested in research experience before applying to PhD programs? Or just want to learn more about cognitive science? Consider joining my lab as a lab manager (joint w/the Griffiths Lab). We will begin reviewing applications one week from today: cognition.princeton.edu/news/2025/open…

Blind people show similar associations between adjectives (e.g. cold) and colours (e.g. blue) as sighted people; word embedding models trained on corpora of written and spoken language learn these associations from indirect co-occurrences. nature.com/articles/s4427…

A year ago today we lost the wonderful philosopher Daniel Dennett. He is still very greatly missed. Here's some reflections I wrote at time, in Nautilus Magazine nautil.us/i-never-stoppe…

Why did only humans invent graphical systems like writing? 🧠✍️ In our new paper at CogSci Society, we explore how agents learn to communicate using a model of pictographic signification similar to human proto-writing. 🧵👇

Humans can tell the difference between a realistic generated video and an unrealistic one – can models? Excited to share TRAJAN: the world’s first point TRAJectory AutoeNcoder for evaluating motion realism in generated and corrupted videos. 🌐 trajan-paper.github.io 🧵

How do language models generalize from information they learn in-context vs. via finetuning? We show that in-context learning can generalize more flexibly, illustrating key differences in the inductive biases of these modes of learning — and ways to improve finetuning. Thread: 1/

Want to apply computational tools to the science of human language? But not ready to go into a PhD program? UC Irvine's post-bacc in computational language science bridges the gap. Fall 2025 applications are open!

I'm joining UW–Madison Computer Sciences UW School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences as an assistant professor in fall 2026!! There, I'll continue working on language models, computational social science, & responsible AI. 🌲🧀🚣🏻‍♀️ Apply to be my PhD student! Before then, I'll postdoc for a year at another UW🏔️ -- UW NLP Allen School.

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!

Finally, if this work makes you think "I'd like to work with this person," please reach out -- I'm on the job market for industry post-PhD roles (keywords: language models, interpretability, open-endedness, user intent understanding, alignment). See more: guydavidson.me

Delighted to announce our CogSci '25 workshop at the interface between cognitive science and design 🧠🖌️! We're calling it: Minds in the Making🏺minds-making.github.io Register now! June – July 2024, free & open to the public. (all career stages, all disciplines)

Great work by Changde Du from Huiguang He's lab at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. How similar are visual and conceptual representations in (multimodal) large language models to those found in humans? It turns out quite similar! nature.com/articles/s4225…

Next up is the CREATIVITY session in our Cognitive Science Minds in the Making workshop ft. Aaron Hertzmann Manish Saggar & Aaron Kozbelt! Tomorrow June 19th, 11am-12pm PT. Register here: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regist…!

“i asked chatgpt” “i asked grok” well i asked Mogster