UT Linguistics'll have 4 (!) computational linguists! Consider applying! I'm looking for students and also potentially postdocs. For postdocs, particularly interested in philosophically rich issues around AI cognition: Can AI introspect? How can we study if they have preferences?

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In today's installment of the "Unknowns" series, I pitched in with colleagues @kchang.bsky.social & William Broad to tackle a teeny question: How Did Life Arise? Gift link: nyti.ms/4B9lbW5

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Proud to have this paper out today at Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com ! Heroic, creative work by Zekun Sun (w/ Zhiran Xie and me).

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Also, @evfedorenko.bsky.social (and her collaborators) on the extended language network (crucial for our discussion of the cerebellum) www.jneurosci.org/content/46/2...

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Extended thanks to @alisongopnik.bsky.social @himself.bsky.social @celiaheyes.bsky.social @ctennie.bsky.social @seantrott.bsky.social @eryk.bsky.social @evfedorenko.bsky.social @abeba.blacksky.app & many others who've helped inform my thinking on AI and human cognition.

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