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AI's can now mimic understanding how how other persons (humans) think. For long the "Theory of mind" test has been for humans only, not anymore. AI has before proven to solve analytical test, but now it's demonstrating an ability to predict our reasoning. While researchers are carefully avoiding saying "AI understands us", it is a little bit freaky that AI models can anticipate our thinking and needs. The way through which the AI does it matters less IMHO. Imagine how this can be used (for good and for bad). https://lnkd.in/dU9y98s3

Skepticism continues about the usefulness of using human tests to evaluate AI's cognitive ability, especially regarding the “theory of mind.” The American Psychological Association defines this theory as “the understanding that others have intentions, desires, beliefs, perceptions, and emotions different from one’s own and that such intentions, desires, and so forth affect people’s actions and behaviors.” … but recent findings reported in the IEEE Spectrum article below, which is based on the work of several researchers led by James Strachan (the full paper is available at: https://lnkd.in/e3q9gCFz), reveals that AI models like GPT-4 and Llama 2 are now surpassing human scores in theory of mind tests. One of the researchers calls the results “unexpected and surprising.” I agree with the comments in the IEEE Article that we need to be careful when claiming that the research results “show that LLMs actually possess theory of mind,” but, if nothing else, we are observing LLMs becoming “surprisingly good at mimicking this quintessential human trait.” The research indicates that AI has a growing capability to seemingly understand human mental states. If this is the case, it could transform, say, customer interactions and significantly enhance personalization in technology. Some key takeaways from the article are: 1. AI's understanding of human nuances could revolutionize industries by providing more deeply intuitive user experiences. 2. AI's increased capabilities open up new ethical dilemmas that we must consider. Creating guidelines to ensure its ethical use is essential. 3. This advance, whether AI mimics humans or has some form of understanding, opens new possibilities for AI in mental health and social media, improving sensitivity to user emotions. What are your thoughts on the findings of this research? #AIforGood https://lnkd.in/eEsH37M3

AI Outperforms Humans in Theory of Mind Tests https://flip.it/q2jhda

AI Outperforms Humans in Theory of Mind Tests. Large language models convincingly mimic the understanding of mental states. Theory of mind — the ability to understand other people’s mental states — is what makes the social world of humans go around. It’s what helps you decide what to say in a tense situation, guess what drivers in other cars are about to do, and empathize with a character in a movie. And according to a new study, the large language models (LLM) that power ChatGPT and the like are surprisingly good at mimicking this quintessentially human trait. The results may not indicate that AI really gets us, but it’s worth thinking about the repercussions of LLMs that convincingly mimic theory of mind reasoning. They’ll be better at interacting with their human users and anticipating their needs, but they could also be better used for deceit or the manipulation of their users. And they’ll invite more anthropomorphizing, by convincing human users that there’s a mind on the other side of the user interface. What's your take? Read much more in the article .... https://lnkd.in/dynawFx6 #AI #ToM #ChatGPT #LLM #Study #anthropomorphize #mimic

AI Outperforms Humans In Theory Of Mind Tests #ai #llms #theoryofmind

AI outshines humans in creative thinking 🤯 The University of Arkansas has recently put 151 human participants against ChatGPT-4 across 3 tests designed to measure divergent thinking 🧠 Whilst AI doesn't have agency and requires prompting, the overall result was that AI generative language models are more creative in divergent thinking tasks 🤖 Ready the study here: https://hubs.ly/Q02pDVTx0 What do you think about this research? #ai #creativethinking #divergentthinking #creativity #artificialintelligence #genai

Our new work investigates associations between personality and attitudes towards AI. Recently, we came up with a theoretical framework called IMPACT to better understand AI-attitude-formation (https://lnkd.in/enkJbN2N). Within this framework, the Person-variable (P) comprises factors such as sociodemographics and personality. Indeed our present work shows that #personality is of relevance to shed light on individual differences in AI-attitudes. Here, we observe that in particular the SADNESS and FEAR dimensions (hence emotional traits being linked to feeling more loneliness or worrying a lot) are associated with negative #attitudes for #AI. Hence, this data support the idea that personality is a relevant factor to consider, when trying to understand attitudes towards AI. Finally, we present new insights on #spirituality and AI-attitudes in our paper. Our new work paper is published in the journal AI & Society. Thanks to my colleagues Raian Ali and Kenneth L. Davis for the support! Read here: https://lnkd.in/eTKhPcYe

Chasing AGI may disclose our illusion of consciousness. 🧠 AI excels in theory of mind tests, understanding others' mental states like humans do, according to a new study. 🤖 However, experts urge caution, highlighting potential biases and the dangers of anthropomorphizing AI. #ai #machinelearning #datascience

Uh... meaning? AI Outperforms Humans in Theory of Mind Tests Large language models convincingly mimic the understanding of mental states https://lnkd.in/eFtXDBC6

Fascinating read and resource from IEEE Spectrum on Theory of Mind in LLMs. It is mesmerizing to even begin to think that software have a basic understanding of Human Minds... There is already a fascinating debate going on. Where will it lead us is still a wide open question, worth to ponder and think more about. I would take the challenge, always striving to be on the optimistic side of history... AI Outperforms Humans in Theory of Mind Tests Large language models convincingly mimic the understanding of mental states #AI #LLMs #TheoryofMind #machine_consciousness https://lnkd.in/dtjwrXij