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Elan Barenholtz, Ph.D.
@ebarenholtz
Professor, computational philosopher, working on an autoregressive account of language and cognition one token at a time
Joined December 2009
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Elan Barenholtz, Ph.D.@ebarenholtz · Jul 21
It's up! My @TOEwithCurt interview at U. of Toronto. Together with @will_hahn, I discuss the unsettling idea that LLMs show that language runs in us. And runs us. Installed before consent. youtu.be/Ca_RbPXraDE?si… Thanks to @ekkolapto for another incredible event.
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Elan Barenholtz, Ph.D.@ebarenholtz · Jul 18
The influential predictive-coding model sees the brain as a machine for minimizing error: constantly forecasting sensory inputs and adjusting internal models when reality deviates. But here’s an alternative: the brain is not predictive, but generative. Like a large language…
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