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In Dialogue with Intelligence: Rethinking Large Language Models as Collective Knowledge
Large Language Models (LLMs) are typically analysed through architectural, behavioural, or training-data lenses. This article offers a theoretical and experiential re-framing: LLMs as dynamic instantiations of Collective human Knowledge (CK), where intelligence is evoked through dialogue rather than stored statically. Drawing on concepts from neuroscience and AI, and grounded in sustained interaction with ChatGPT-4, I examine emergent dialogue patterns, the implications of fine-tuning, and the …

New paper alert:
Finkel & Lamm, Cultural evolution beyond the individual: what human collective knowledge adds to high fidelity copying.
This is the third in the Distributed Adaptation series.
Many thanks to the diligent reviewers! #philbio #cultevo
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10539-025-09982-4

Fifteen Years of Child-Centered Long-Form Recordings: Promises, Resources, and Remaining Challenges to Validity
Loann Peurey, Marvin Lavechin, Tarek Kunze, Manel Khentout, Lucas Gautheron, Emmanuel Dupoux, Alejandrina Cristia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11075

Fifteen Years of Child-Centered Long-Form Recordings: Promises, Resources, and Remaining Challenges to Validity
Audio-recordings collected with a child-worn device are a fundamental tool in child language research. Long-form recordings collected over whole days promise to capture children's input and production with minimal observer bias, and therefore high validity. The sheer volume of resulting data necessitates automated analysis to extract relevant metrics for researchers and clinicians. This paper summarizes collective knowledge on this technique, providing entry points to existing resources. We als…