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2 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Me, Myself, and AI: The Situational Awareness Dataset (SAD) for LLMs

   Laine, Chughtai, Betley et al. · neural information processing systems · 2024

   The authors built the Situational Awareness Dataset, over 13,000 questions in 7 categories, and used it to test whether 16 language models know about themselves and their circumstances.

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   1. Supported · 71%Chat models beat their matching base models on a test of AI self-knowledge (SAD), but not on general knowledge tasks.“Chat models, which are finetuned to serve as AI assistants, outperform their corresponding base models on SAD but not on general knowledge tasks.”

2. Computer Science › Psychiatry, Mental Health, Neuroscience

   Building Machines that Learn and Think with People

   Collins, Sucholutsky, Bhatt et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

   A Perspective arguing that collaborative-cognition science can guide the building of AI 'thought partners' that think with people, and setting out modes of collaboration and desiderata for such partnerships.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper proposes designing AI 'thought partners' that build and reason over models of the human and the world, using a Bayesian approach.“Drawing on motifs from computational cognitive science, we motivate an alternative scaling path for the design of thought partners and ecosystems around their use through a Bayesian lens, whereby the partners we construct actively build and reason over models of the human and world.”