James Strachan
jwastrachan.bsky.social
James Strachan
@jwastrachan.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist interested in joint action, learning, and culture.
Researcher at University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.
New paper out now in Nature Human Behaviour

We administered a range of standard Theory of Mind tests to LLMs and humans in order to compare how models performed at tests of social reasoning

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Testing theory of mind in large language models and humans - Nature Human Behaviour
At the core of what defines us as humans is the concept of theory of mind: the ability to track other people’s mental states. The recent development of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT has...
link.springer.com
May 21, 2024 at 8:43 AM
Reposted by James Strachan
Very pleased to announce that the first study from my PhD thesis is out now 🥳 with thanks to @ConstableMerryn
and all my other wonderful co-authors!
Chimpanzees exhibit a behavioural signature of human social coordination:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 29, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Check out our paper (thread below) on Flexible Cultural Learning Through Action Coordination in Perspectives on Psychological Science
"As we move into 2024, time for some shameless self-promotion. Check out our paper in Perspectives on Psychological Science:

""Flexible Cultural Learning Through Action Coordination""

Paper: http://tinyurl.com/v39xtx5s
Preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/ahrgs/

🧵👇"
January 9, 2024 at 2:56 PM