TY - CONF
AU - Rathkopf, Charles
AU - Millière, Raphaël
TI - Anthropocentric bias and the possibility of artificial cognition
M1 - FZJ-2024-05885
PY - 2024
AB - Evaluating the cognitive capacities of large language models (LLMs) requires overcoming not only anthropomorphic but also anthropocentric biases. This article identifies two types of anthropocentric bias that have been neglected: overlooking how auxiliary factors can impede LLM performance despite competence (Type-I), and dismissing LLM mechanistic strategies that differ from those of humans as not genuinely competent (Type-II). Mitigating these biases necessitates an empirically-driven, iterative approach to mapping cognitive tasks to LLM-specific capacities and mechanisms, which can be done by supplementing carefully designed behavioral experiments with mechanistic studies.
T2 - International Conference on Machine Learning, Workshop on LLMs and Cognition
CY - 26 Jul 2024 - 28 Jul 2024, Vienna (Austria)
Y2 - 26 Jul 2024 - 28 Jul 2024
M2 - Vienna, Austria
LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)6
UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1031878
ER -