Traditionally,in psychology,the human mind is divided into modules,such as attention and memory,and each module or submodule,such as top-down attention or working memory,is separately studied and modeled.Whether the h...Traditionally,in psychology,the human mind is divided into modules,such as attention and memory,and each module or submodule,such as top-down attention or working memory,is separately studied and modeled.Whether the human mind could be explained by a unified theory remains unclear.Recently,Binz et al.[1]made an important step toward building a unified model,i.e.,Centaur,that can predict the human behavior in 160 psychological experiments.Centaur is built by fine-tuning a large language model(LLM)on cognitive tasks and its performance can generalize to held-out participants and unseen tasks,leading the authors to conclude that a single model may comprehensively capture many aspects of human cognition.展开更多
文摘Traditionally,in psychology,the human mind is divided into modules,such as attention and memory,and each module or submodule,such as top-down attention or working memory,is separately studied and modeled.Whether the human mind could be explained by a unified theory remains unclear.Recently,Binz et al.[1]made an important step toward building a unified model,i.e.,Centaur,that can predict the human behavior in 160 psychological experiments.Centaur is built by fine-tuning a large language model(LLM)on cognitive tasks and its performance can generalize to held-out participants and unseen tasks,leading the authors to conclude that a single model may comprehensively capture many aspects of human cognition.
