Psychology and Large Language Models

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Are you familiar with Large Language Models? Collaborate with cognitive scientists and psycholinguists to address how much the abilities of LLMs overlap with human language processing. Conduct literature reviews and learn how to test the abilities of LLMs.

For more background, read:

Language models, like humans, show content effects on reasoning tasks
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/7/pgae233/7712372

Placing language in an integrated understanding system: Next steps toward human-level performance in neural language models
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1910416117

Language Model Behavior: A Comprehensive Survey
https://direct.mit.edu/coli/article/50/1/293/118131/Language-Model-Behavior-A-Comprehensive-Survey

Send your resume including relevant course work and prior research experience to the team leader, Prof Caldwell-Harris, charris@bu.edu.

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