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Understanding LLM Understanding skywritingspress.ca Jun 14, 2024 13 facts
referenceBlake Richards from McGill University revisits the Turing test in the context of large language models.
claimGenome-wide assays and brain scans show diminishing returns in detecting autism, according to researchers at McGill and MILA.
claimJackie Cheung from McGill University presented on methods for evaluating the capabilities of Large Language Models at the 'Understanding LLM Understanding' summer school.
claimDanilo Bzdok from McGill University presented on the use of Large Language Models as aids in medical diagnosis at the 'Understanding LLM Understanding' summer school.
procedureResearchers at McGill and MILA used deep learning to interpret clinician thinking by pre-training on hundreds of millions of general sentences and applying large language models to over 4,000 free-form health records to distinguish confirmed from suspected autism cases.
referenceEva Portelance from McGill University researches what neural networks can teach about human language learning.
claimJocelyn Maclure is a professor of political philosophy at McGill University who researches ethics, political philosophy, and artificial intelligence, specifically exploring metaphysical questions like the mind-body problem and personal identity.
claimJackie Chi Kit Cheung is an associate professor at McGill University’s School of Computer Science, co-director of the Reasoning and Learning Lab, a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, and an Associate Scientific Co-Director at the Mila Quebec AI Institute.
perspectiveBlake Richards, an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University and a Core Faculty Member at Mila, argues that neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, and AI researchers should prioritize scientific exploration of the human brain and artificial intelligence over debating the definition of 'thought'.
claimThe extended large language model architecture developed by researchers at McGill and MILA identified stereotyped repetitive behaviors, special interests, and perception-based behavior as the most critical DSM-5 criteria for autism.
perspectiveThe findings from the McGill and MILA study suggest that current diagnostic criteria for autism, which focus on deficits in social interplay, need to be revised.
claimThe clinical intuition of healthcare professionals, derived from longstanding first-hand experience, remains the most effective method for diagnosing autism, according to researchers at McGill and MILA.
referenceJocelyn Maclure from McGill University researches the ethics of large language models.
“The Old Foods Are the New Foods!”: Erosion and Revitalization of ... frontiersin.org 3 facts
referenceH. V. Kuhnlein, B. Erasmus, D. Spigelski, and B. Burlingame edited the 2013 book 'Indigenous Peoples' Food Systems for Health: Interventions for Health Promotion and Policy,' published by the Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment at McGill University and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
referenceH. V. Kuhnlein and M. M. Humphries authored the 2017 publication 'Traditional Animal Foods of Indigenous Peoples of Northern North America,' hosted by the Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment at McGill University.
referenceH. V. Kuhnlein, B. Erasmus, and D. Spigelski edited the 2009 book 'Indigenous Peoples' Food Systems: The Many Dimensions of Culture, Diversity, and Environment for Nutrition and Health,' published by the Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment at McGill University and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
The Montreal model: an integrative biomedical-psychedelic ... frontiersin.org 1 fact
accountThe Montreal model was developed over 6 years and based on more than 500 ketamine treatments administered to inpatients and outpatients with severe treatment-resistant depression at two McGill University hospitals.
The Children and Screens Guide for Child Development and Media ... childrenandscreens.org 1 fact
quoteAdam Dubé, PhD, Associate Professor of Learning Sciences at McGill University, stated: "These types of systems tend to help us learn better in the moment. They tend to help us write better in the moment. But once they’re gone, we actually didn’t learn the underlying fundamental skills. We didn’t learn how to generate ideas. We didn’t learn how to summarize and deeply read. We didn’t learn how to explain concepts to ourselves. We let these systems do it for us and they didn’t give us the opportunity to practice doing that ourselves. When we talk about cognitive offloading, it’s that actual effortful practice that doesn’t happen because we have a system doing it for us that results in us being less skilled in the long run."
Stress, Lifestyle, and Health – Psychology 2e OpenStax pressbooks.cuny.edu 1 fact
accountIn the 1930s, while working as an assistant in the biochemistry department at McGill University, Hans Selye conducted research on sex hormones in rats and incidentally discovered that prolonged exposure to negative stressors—such as extreme cold, surgical injury, excessive muscular exercise, and shock—caused adrenal enlargement, thymus and lymph node shrinkage, and stomach ulceration in the rats.
Stress, Lifestyle, and Health – Introduction to Psychology open.maricopa.edu 1 fact
accountHans Selye was a researcher in the biochemistry department at McGill University in the 1930s who conducted research involving sex hormones in rats and became a prominent expert in the study of stress.