非文字内隐学习的优势效应

本研究以大学生为被试,运用计算机将人工语法范式程序化,分别以色块串和色词串为材料,研究颜色内隐和外显学习的特点;并增设时间变量（单元）以了解学习的详细进程。结果发现：1.学习材料上存在主效应,非言语材料（包块）较言语材料（色词）更适合于内隐加工。2.时间变量上也存在主效应,整体呈递增趋势;3.指导语上不存在主效应,即内隐学习在不同材料上的优势效应依然存在。实验结果极好地支持了非文字内隐学习优势效应的假设。     

Open Problems in the Philosophy of Information

Abstract: The philosophy of information (PI) is a new area of research with its own field of investigation and methodology. This article, based on the Herbert A. Simon Lecture of Computing and Philosophy I gave at Carnegie Mellon University in 2001, analyses the eighteen principal open problems in PI. Section 1 introduces the analysis by outlining Herbert Simon's approach to PI. Section 2 discusses some methodological considerations about what counts as a good philosophical problem. The discussion centers on Hilbert's famous analysis of the central problems in mathematics. The rest of the article is devoted to the eighteen problems. These are organized into five sections: problems in the analysis of the concept of information, in semantics, in the study of intelligence, in the relation between information and nature, and in the investigation of values.     

近距离的鞭挞与远距离的哲思

面对当今"人造美女"的现象,仅有批评的激愤与学术睿智是不够的,更需要哲人式的深刻与从容.今后人们需要改变的是既定的认知观念,而不是"医疗美容"所代表的新的心理、社会层面的服务诉求.     

大学生形成析取概念的假设检验策略研究

运用布鲁纳等人设计的用以研究合取概念的实验材料,研究了大学生形成合取、维度内析取、维度间析取等人工概念的假设检验策略。结果表明,大学生倾向于优先使用单维检验策略（包括单维变化策略和单维肯定策略）。这种策略有利于很快解决合取问题和维度内析取问题,却不利于维度间析取任务的完成,因此大学生解决维度间析取的成功率显著低于合取和维度内析取。     

GOLEMS IN THE BIOTECH CENTURY

The legend of the golem, the creation of life through mystical and magical means, is the most famous postbiblical Jewish legend. After noting recent references to the golem legend in fiction, film, art, and scientific literature, I outline three stages of the development of the legend, including its relationship to the story of Frankenstein. I apply teachings about the golem in classical Jewish religious literature to implications of the legend for ethical issues relating to bioengineering, reproductive biotechnology, robotics, artificial intelligence, artificial life, and corporate ethics. The golem legend emerges as a source of prudent guidance through the minefield of ethical and spiritual problems emerging from current and expected developments in biotechnology.     

Sistemas expertos y psicología cognitiva: una visión general

Resumen

El presente trabajo intenta ofrecer una visión sintética del tema de los sistemas expertos que trata de hacer hincapié en aquellos aspectos de este campo que pudieran resultar más relevantes para el psicólogo interesado en la cognición. Se traza un breve esbozo del marco científico-técnico de la inteligencia artificial en general, a partir del cual se intenta caracterizar a los sistemas expertos desde dos puntos de vista principales: en primer lugar, el tipo de problemas y tareas a los que se destinan dichos sistemas y, en segundo lugar, la estructura computacional subyacente que ha permitido abordarlos con éxito. Se discute la relación histórico-científica entre la inteligencia artificial y la psicología cognitiva, observándose que se ha producido un flujo constante y bidireccional de conceptos teóricos, métodos y problemas conceptuales de una a otra, especialmente en el actual marco interdisciplinar de la ciencia cognitiva. Dado este contexto, se argumenta que es muy posible que los sistemas expertos aporten novedades conceptuales y metodológicas significativas para la Psicología. Por último, se especula sobre algunas cuestiones en las que podría tener lugar tal contribución.     

ONLINE BUDDHIST AND CHRISTIAN RESPONSES TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

I report the findings of a comparative analysis of online Christian and Buddhist responses to artificial intelligence. I review the Buddhist response and compare it with the Christian response outlined in an earlier essay (Tamatea 2008). The discussion seeks to answer two questions: Which approach to imago Dei informs the online Buddhist response to artificial intelligence? And to what extent does the preference for a particular approach emerge from a desire to construct the Self? The conclusion is that, like the Christian response, the Buddhist response is grounded not so much in the reality of AI as it is in the discursive constructions of AI made available through Buddhist cosmology, which (paradoxically), like the Christian response, are deployed in defense of the Self, despite claimed adherence to the notion of anatta, or non‐Self.     

The Language of Creativity: Evidence from Humans and Large Language Models

Recent developments in computerized scoring via semantic distance have provided automated assessments of verbal creativity. Here, we extend past work, applying computational linguistic approaches to characterize salient features of creative text. We hypothesize that, in addition to semantic diversity, the degree to which a story includes perceptual details, thus transporting the reader to another time and place, would be predictive of creativity. Additionally, we explore the use of generative language models to supplement human data collection and examine the extent to which machine-generated stories can mimic human creativity. We collect 600 short stories from human participants and GPT-3, subsequently randomized and assessed on their creative quality. Results indicate that the presence of perceptual details, in conjunction with semantic diversity, is highly predictive of creativity. These results were replicated in an independent sample of stories (n = 120) generated by GPT-4. We do not observe a significant difference between human and AI-generated stories in terms of creativity ratings, and we also observe positive correlations between human and AI assessments of creativity. Implications and future directions are discussed.     

A HYDRA-LOGICAL APPROACH: ACKNOWLEDGING COMPLEXITY IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION,SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY

Scholarship has grown increasingly nuanced in its grappling with the intersections of religion, science, and technology but requires a new paradigm. Contemporary approaches to specific technologies reveal a wide variety of perspectives but remain too often committed to typological classification. To be vigilant of our obligation to understand and reveal, scholars in the study of religion, science, and technology can adopt a hydra-logical stance: we can recognize that there are cultural monsters possessing scientific, technological, and religious heads. These heads may work with a common agenda or they might not. They might disagree, pulling their shared body back and forth in a public commotion that lays waste to their surroundings. They might see past one another or move in tandem—purposively or not. Evaluations of climate response and AI benefit from seeing how the various heads are inseparable: indeed, cutting one off simply promotes the growth of new heads. Methodological and analytical clarity, therefore, emerges in the transition from schemes of classification to the recognition of hydras.