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Alison Gopnik
@AlisonGopnik
Cognitive scientist, psychologist, philosopher, author of Scientist in the Crib, Philosophical Baby, The Gardener & The Carpenter, grandmother of six
Berkeley
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    Alison Gopnik
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    Sep 13, 2024
    My Rumelhart Prize presentation, IMHO I think one of the best talks I've ever given, very much inspired by the audience. "3 ages and 3 intelligences: explore, exploit, empower" AI, life history, the significance of children, elders and caregiving. underline.io/events/465/ses…
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    Alison Gopnik
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    May 19, 2021
    Honored and delighted to be voted President-Elect of the Association for Psychological Science.
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    Alison Gopnik
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    Jul 27, 2023
    So delighted and honored to receive the Rumelhart prize for theoretical foundations of cognitive science, especially grateful because this is what I think my work has been about- bringing together philosophy, psychology and computation to figure out how knowledge is possible.
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    CogSci Society
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    Jul 27, 2023
    Huge congratulations to the brilliant ✨@AlisonGopnik,✨ recipient of the 2024 David E. Rumelhart Prize! 🏆🌟 Visit the #RumelhartPrize page to learn more cognitivesciencesociety.org/rumelhart-priz…
    Alison Gopnik’s portrait and a message congratulating her for winning the 2024 David E. Rumelhart Prize.
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    Alison Gopnik
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    Nov 4, 2021
    My new article with Emily Liquin out in Cognition, one of my favorite recent papers, 4 preregistered studies showing empirically that children explore, and learn, while adults exploit. So kids escape from avoidance "learning traps" that adults fall into. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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    Alison Gopnik
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    May 20, 2017
    My op-ed in the NY Times , why saying Trump is a 4-year-old is an insult to 4-year-olds (marvelous picture tells... fb.me/17zYrSqeV
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    Alison Gopnik
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    Jul 27, 2023
    From my acceptance speech for the amazing Rumelhart award for Cognitive Science with special guest co-recipient (and fifth grandchild) Kit
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    Alison Gopnik
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    Nov 27, 2023
    Replying to @yudapearl @GaryMarcus and 4 others
    Current LLM's with statistical next word prediction can't learn causal structure from experience like kids (see below). You might hack particular examples with prompt engineering and RLHF. But what the kids do requires radically different AI methods.
    Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language...
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    Alison Gopnik
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    Apr 9, 2020
    Delighted and honored to receive a Guggenheim fellowship.
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    Alison Gopnik
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    Dec 9, 2021
    My latest in the WSJ based on Allyson Mackey and colleagues beautiful Nature Neuroscience Review paper. Good science that shows why programs supporting early childhood are so crucial.
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    Essay | What Children Lose When Their Brains Develop Too Fast
    Adverse early experiences can make young minds inflexible, while a carefree childhood has clear cognitive benefits.
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    Alison Gopnik
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    Apr 26, 2019
    In honor of Hume's birthday, my Atlantic piece on the possible link between Hume and Buddhism, and the historical detective story that led me there
    How David Hume Helped Me Solve My Midlife Crisis
    From theatlantic.com
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    Alison Gopnik
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    Dec 4, 2020
    Very pleased and honored to receive the Association for Psychological Science Lifetime Achievement Award. In great company too!
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    Association for Psychological Science
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    Dec 3, 2020
    Congratulations to the recipients of APS’s 2021 Lifetime Achievement Awards!🎉psychologicalscience.org/news/2021-life…
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    Alison Gopnik
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    Oct 27, 2023
    Our latest paper, in Perspectives on Psychological Science, with Eunice Yiu and Eliza Kosoy, articulating the idea of Large AI Models as cultural technologies at more length and comparing and contrasting with human children
    Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language...
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    Alison Gopnik
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    Jun 1, 2024
    Very interesting conversation between Melanie Mitchell and me about all the ways current AI is different from the powerful natural intelligence we find in organisms from brine shrimp to two-year-olds.
    How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation with Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell |...
    From lareviewofbooks.org
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    Alison Gopnik
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    Sep 17, 2021
    My latest in the Wall Street Journal: Reassuring new study shows that babies don't mind at all when Mom puts on a mask. What matters is the attunement and interaction between the baby and the person they're talking to, aka love.
    Face Masks Don’t Obscure Parents’ Love
    Face Masks Don’t Obscure Parents’ Love
    From wsj.com