Teppo Felin
@teppofelin
anderson endowed prof @ huntsman usu | prof @ oxford univ 2013-2021 | cognition, evolution, economics, strategy, bounded rationality
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My latest AI readings on the issue of whether the brain = computer; computer = brain metaphor holds (by Teppo Felin et al.) and on the dangers of anthropomorphizing AI (by @floridi and Nobre). Both papers are interesting. Eager to hear feedback from others.…
🚨EXCELLENT AI PAPER ALERT: 'Theory Is All You Need: AI, Human Cognition, and Decision Making' by Teppo Felin & Matthias Holweg is all you need to read about AI today. Quotes:
'The differences between human and machine learning—when it comes to language (as well as other…
On a day of unfathomable grief, with the loss of Danny Kahneman, here's a happy moment. He was so, so, so happy when Richard H Thaler got the Nobel.
Interesting paper by Teppo Felin and Holweg. 'Many scholars argue that—due to human bias and bounded rationality—humans should (or will soon) be replaced by AI in situations involving high-level cognition and strategic decision making. We disagree.'
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
Active Inference Institute Finding the best sequence of actions that minimize an objective function (an energy) measured over the predicted trajectory is very much like inferring latent variables.
If you insist on being Bayesian, then you infer a distribution over action sequences by trading the average…
But some say 'there is no such thing as hypothesis-free data exploration. Observation and data are always hypothesis- or theory-laden. Data is meaningless without some form of hypothesis' and Exploration is 'necessarily guided by [...] expectations.'
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
Paul Bloom 'Mind, rationality, and cognition: An interdisciplinary debate' (Chater et al., 2017)
The most comprehensive article discussing rationality with the most scholars from the field contributing. It also marks a turning point from asking about human (ir)rationality from a specific…
Some thoughts on why its hard to evaluate judgments against decisions on equal ground in an experiment, despite their conceptual difference
Plus another plea for adopting statistical decision theory when we want to talk about decisions in vis/HCI/AI
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/12/28/jud…
Josh Wolfe These are examples of what Stuart Kauffman & Teppo Felin describe in their latest paper “Disruptive evolution: harnessing functional excess, experimentation and science as tool” academic.oup.com/icc/article/32…
New paper in Management Science w. Austin van Loon Katharina Lix Amir Goldberg & Sameer Srivastava: “Exposure to the Views of Opposing Others with Latent Cognitive Differences Results in Social Influence—But Only When Those Differences Remain Obscured.” pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.128…
Naturalizing Relevance Realization: Why Agency and Cognition are Fundamentally not Computational, with Anna Riedl, Alex Djedovic, John Vervaeke & Denis Walsh.
osf.io/preprints/osf/…
It's massive indeed! I'll do a TL:DR thread on its argument one of these coming days.
Great thread! Nice example of an entrepreneur’s theory of value ala Teppo Felin Alfonso Gambardella Todd Zenger mbrjournal.com/2021/11/03/val…
A Scientific Method for Startups
A piece forthcoming in Journal of Management with Alfonso Gambardella, Elena Novelli, Todd Zenger
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Alfonso Gambardella Elena Novelli Todd Zenger