Language
What is wrong with the sentence "Colourless green tigers sleep furiously"?
It is semantically ill-formed
“The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own”
Why did rats living in a social colony self-ingest less morphine than rats living isolated in a cage?
Multiple possible reasons:
1. Greater hydration needs in social rats due to more physical activity
2. In isolated rats, morphine is primarily used to reduce anxiety created by social deprivation
3. Psychoactive effects of morphine interfere with species-typical behaviours
What is the behaviourist definition of 'psychology'?
The prediction and control of behaviour
What does "LLM" stand for?
Large Language Model
Which animals possess a language which includes syntax?
What is a fundamental requirement for the formation of society?
The acknowledgement that we all have minds
In Asch's conformity experiments, how often did individuals conform to group decision, even if they were wrong?
30-40% of the times
Which aspect of consciousness does the "Global Workspace" theory attempt to model scientifically?
The Unity of Consciousness
The capacity of AI models increased rapidly in the 2018-2021 period. What caused that rapid increase?
They were trained on larger and larger data sets (e.g. the entire internet)
"The horse raced past the barn fell" is an example of a _______ sentence
Garden Path
What is "personality"?
Personality is the unique and relatively stable pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that define an individual
Either describe the difference between "precision" and "accuracy," or draw a diagram which illustrates that difference.
Precision is when all measurements of the same thing provide a similar answer.
Accuracy is when the measurement measures what it intends to measure
What is the most important factor which determines our perception of language?
Pragmatics and context
What would it take for ChatGPT to pass the Turing Test?
It would pass the Turing Test if human observers could not distinguish its behaviour from that of other humans.
What is the primary similarity between language and music?
The presence of a syntax
In what circumstances does the "actual, imagined, or implied presence of others" influence our behaviour?
All circumstances
What is the originally meaning of the word "Psyche"?
Soul
In behaviourist terms, how is a Large-Language Model "trained"?
How are 'memes' related to 'pragmatics'?
Typically, memes require a great deal of context and background knowledge to become funny
Why are "personality types" usually misleading classifications?
An individual person will always have characteristics not possessed by the category.
Watching and imitating of others
What does the word "empiricism" mean?
Knowledge acquired through experience
The GPT of ChatGPT stands for "General Pretrained Transformer." What does "pretrained" mean in this context?