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Lying, gaslighting, & blackmailing — what's going on with AI chatbots?
In my final column for Science’s “Expert Voices” series, I wrote about why AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are misbehaving in all kinds of ways.
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June 2025
How Your Cheese-Powered Baby Trounces AI
An O.G. AI Researcher on How Being Social and Cultural Makes us Intelligent--and Whether Machines Can Ever Learn Empathy
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May 2025
David Cope: Composer, computer scientist, and pioneer of computer generated music
Today I learned that the composer David Cope died on May 4, at the age of 83.
May 8
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Melanie Mitchell
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David Cope: Composer, computer scientist, and pioneer of computer generated music
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March 2025
AI learns to reason (or does it?)
I have a gig writing four columns a year about artificial intelligence for Science Magazine’s “Expert Voices” project.
Mar 21
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Melanie Mitchell
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AI learns to reason (or does it?)
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February 2025
LLMs and World Models, Part 2
Evidence For (and Against) Emergent World Models in LLMs
Feb 13
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Melanie Mitchell
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LLMs and World Models, Part 1
How do Large Language Models Make Sense of Their “Worlds”?
Feb 13
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Melanie Mitchell
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December 2024
Did OpenAI Just Solve Abstract Reasoning?
OpenAI’s o3 model aces the "Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus" — but what does it mean?
Dec 23, 2024
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Melanie Mitchell
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Did OpenAI Just Solve Abstract Reasoning?
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October 2024
The LLM Reasoning Debate Heats Up
Three recent papers examine the robustness of reasoning and problem-solving in large language models
Oct 21, 2024
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Melanie Mitchell
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The LLM Reasoning Debate Heats Up
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September 2024
Podcast on "The Nature of Intelligence"
I never thought I would be a podcast host, but…Abha Eli Phoboo, the director of communications at the Santa Fe Institute, recently relaunched SFI’s…
Sep 21, 2024
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Melanie Mitchell
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Podcast on "The Nature of Intelligence"
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August 2024
The Turing Test and Our Shifting Conceptions of Intelligence
Has the famous Turing Test been passed?
Aug 15, 2024
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Melanie Mitchell
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On the “ARC-AGI” $1 Million Reasoning Challenge
In this post I’m going to go into the weeds, describing how some people are trying to win a big $$$ prize for solving a still-wide-open AI challenge…
Aug 6, 2024
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Melanie Mitchell
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May 2024
Stress-Testing Large Language Models’ Analogical Reasoning Abilities
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May 21, 2024
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Melanie Mitchell
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