On the generalization of language models from in-context learning and finetuning: a controlled study

Authors: Lampinen, Andrew K., Chaudhry, Arslan, Chan, Stephanie C. Y., Wild, Cody, Wan, Diane, Ku, Alex, Bornschein, Jörg, Pascanu, Razvan, Shanahan, Murray, McClelland, James L.

Subject Terms: Computer Science - Computation and Language, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science - Machine Learning

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00661

Palatable Conceptions of Disembodied Being: Terra Incognita in the Space of Possible Minds

Authors: Shanahan, Murray

Subject Terms: Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16348

Multi-turn Evaluation of Anthropomorphic Behaviours in Large Language Models

Authors: Ibrahim, Lujain, Akbulut, Canfer, Elasmar, Rasmi, Rastogi, Charvi, Kahng, Minsuk, Morris, Meredith Ringel, McKee, Kevin R., Rieser, Verena, Shanahan, Murray, Weidinger, Laura

Subject Terms: Computer Science - Computation and Language, Computer Science - Computers and Society, Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07077

Transformers Use Causal World Models in Maze-Solving Tasks

Authors: Spies, Alex F., Edwards, William, Ivanitskiy, Michael I., Skapars, Adrians, Räuker, Tilman, Inoue, Katsumi, Russo, Alessandra, Shanahan, Murray

Subject Terms: Computer Science - Machine Learning, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, I.2

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.11867

Still 'Talking About Large Language Models': Some Clarifications

Authors: Shanahan, Murray

Subject Terms: Computer Science - Computation and Language, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science - Machine Learning

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.10291

The broader spectrum of in-context learning

Authors: Lampinen, Andrew Kyle, Chan, Stephanie C. Y., Singh, Aaditya K., Shanahan, Murray

Subject Terms: Computer Science - Computation and Language, Computer Science - Machine Learning

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03782

Existential Conversations with Large Language Models: Content, Community, and Culture

Authors: Shanahan, Murray, Singler, Beth

Subject Terms: Computer Science - Computers and Society, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science - Machine Learning

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13223

The Propensity for Density in Feed-forward Models

Authors: Schoots, Nandi, Jackson, Alex, Kholmovaia, Ali, McBurney, Peter, Shanahan, Murray

Source: ECAI 2024

Subject Terms: Computer Science - Machine Learning, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14461

The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants

Authors: Gabriel, Iason, Manzini, Arianna, Keeling, Geoff, Hendricks, Lisa Anne, Rieser, Verena, Iqbal, Hasan, Tomašev, Nenad, Ktena, Ira, Kenton, Zachary, Rodriguez, Mikel, El-Sayed, Seliem, Brown, Sasha, Akbulut, Canfer, Trask, Andrew, Hughes, Edward, Bergman, A. Stevie, Shelby, Renee, Marchal, Nahema, Griffin, Conor, Mateos-Garcia, Juan, Weidinger, Laura, Street, Winnie, Lange, Benjamin, Ingerman, Alex, Lentz, Alison, Enger, Reed, Barakat, Andrew, Krakovna, Victoria, Siy, John Oliver, Kurth-Nelson, Zeb, McCroskery, Amanda, Bolina, Vijay, Law, Harry, Shanahan, Murray, Alberts, Lize, Balle, Borja, de Haas, Sarah, Ibitoye, Yetunde, Dafoe, Allan, Goldberg, Beth, Krier, Sébastien, Reese, Alexander, Witherspoon, Sims, Hawkins, Will, Rauh, Maribeth, Wallace, Don, Franklin, Matija, Goldstein, Josh A., Lehman, Joel, Klenk, Michael, Vallor, Shannon, Biles, Courtney, Morris, Meredith Ringel, King, Helen, Arcas, Blaise Agüera y, Isaac, William, Manyika, James

Subject Terms: Computer Science - Computers and Society

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16244

A Mechanism-Based Approach to Mitigating Harms from Persuasive Generative AI

Authors: El-Sayed, Seliem, Akbulut, Canfer, McCroskery, Amanda, Keeling, Geoff, Kenton, Zachary, Jalan, Zaria, Marchal, Nahema, Manzini, Arianna, Shevlane, Toby, Vallor, Shannon, Susser, Daniel, Franklin, Matija, Bridgers, Sophie, Law, Harry, Rahtz, Matthew, Shanahan, Murray, Tessler, Michael Henry, Douillard, Arthur, Everitt, Tom, Brown, Sasha

Subject Terms: Computer Science - Computers and Society, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15058

Simulacra as Conscious Exotica

Authors: Shanahan, Murray

Subject Terms: Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12422

Improving Activation Steering in Language Models with Mean-Centring

Authors: Jorgensen, Ole, Cope, Dylan, Schoots, Nandi, Shanahan, Murray

Subject Terms: Computer Science - Computation and Language, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science - Machine Learning

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03813

Evaluating Large Language Model Creativity from a Literary Perspective

Authors: Shanahan, Murray, Clarke, Catherine

Subject Terms: Computer Science - Computation and Language, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science - Machine Learning

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03746

Schema-learning and rebinding as mechanisms of in-context learning and emergence

Authors: Swaminathan, Sivaramakrishnan, Dedieu, Antoine, Raju, Rajkumar Vasudeva, Shanahan, Murray, Lazaro-Gredilla, Miguel, George, Dileep

Subject Terms: Computer Science - Computation and Language, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01201

Role-Play with Large Language Models

Authors: Shanahan, Murray, McDonell, Kyle, Reynolds, Laria

Subject Terms: Computer Science - Computation and Language, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science - Machine Learning

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16367

Talking About Large Language Models

Authors: Shanahan, Murray

Subject Terms: Computer Science - Computation and Language, Computer Science - Machine Learning

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03551

Faithful Reasoning Using Large Language Models

Authors: Creswell, Antonia, Shanahan, Murray

Subject Terms: Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science - Computation and Language

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.14271

Sparse Relational Reasoning with Object-Centric Representations

Authors: Spies, Alex F., Russo, Alessandra, Shanahan, Murray

Subject Terms: Computer Science - Machine Learning, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, I.2.10, I.2.6

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07512

Selection-Inference: Exploiting Large Language Models for Interpretable Logical Reasoning

Authors: Creswell, Antonia, Shanahan, Murray, Higgins, Irina

Subject Terms: Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science - Computation and Language

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09712

Talking about Large Language Models.

Authors: Shanahan, Murray¹, m.shanahan@imperial.ac.uk

Source: Communications of the ACM; Feb2024, Vol. 67 Issue 2, p68-79, 12p