In a study published in the journal PLOS One, scientists from the Humboldt University of Berlin found that when tested against the theory of mind criteria of the large language model (LLM), AI not only could imitate the language learning stages observed in children, but also exhibited something similar to the cognitive abilities associated with these stages of development.
Lead study author Anna Maklova and her colleagues at Charles University in Prague used children’s theory of mind to determine whether AI models such as OpenAI’s GPT-4 could “pretend to be less capable than they actually are.”
To find out, the research team had models behave like
children aged one to six years old while answering questions. After
undergoing over 1,000 trials and cognitive tests, the “modeled child
personalities” actually developed almost exactly like children of the
specified age, and ultimately demonstrated that the models could pretend
to be less intelligent than they were....<<<Read More>>>...
