Robert E. Wray

Language Models as a Knowledge Source for Cognitive Agents

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Language models (LMs) are sentence-completion engines trained on massive corpora. LMs have emerged as a significant breakthrough in natural-language processing, providing capabilities that go far beyond sentence completion including question answering, summarization, and natural-language inference. …

Computational-level Analysis of Constraint Compliance for General Intelligence

2023 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Human behavior is conditioned by codes and norms that constrain action. Rules, ``manners,'' laws, and moral imperatives are examples of classes of constraints that govern human behavior. These systems of constraints are "messy:" individual constraints …