Challenging ChatGPT 'Intelligence' with human tools: a neuropsychological investigation on prefrontal functioning of a large language model

What is the prefrontal cortex functioning of ChatGPT? 🤖 🧠

Library › Papers on Children, Robots, and AI

1. Young Children and ChatGPT: Parents' Use of ChatGPT in Parenting

2. Exploring Parent's Needs for Children-Centered AI to Support Preschoolers' Storytelling and Reading Activities

3. Child–Robot Interaction Across Cultures: How Does Playing a Game With a Social Robot Compare to Playing a Game Alone or With a Friend?

4. Culturally Variable Preferences for Robot Design and Use in South Korea, Turkey, and the United States

5. Child–robot relationship formation: A narrative review of empirical research

6. Shall I Trust You? From Child–Robot Interaction to Trusting Relationships

7. Aladdin’s Genie or Pandora’s Box for early childhood education? Experts chat on the roles, challenges, and developments of ChatGPT

8. Challenging ChatGPT 'Intelligence' with human tools: a neuropsychological investigation on prefrontal functioning of a large language model

9. Dialogue with a Conversational Agent Promotes Children's Story Comprehension via Enhancing Engagement

10. Investigation on Empathy Towards Humans and Robots using fMRI

11. Using Near Infrared Spectroscopy to Index Temporal Changes in Affect in Realistic Human-Robot Interactions

12. "Robovie, you'll have to go into the closet now": Children's social and moral relationships with a humanoid robot

13. The Now and Future of ChatGPT and GPT in Psychiatry

14. Digital Inequality and Developmental Trajectories of Low-income, Immigrant, and Minority Children

15. Family Learning Talk in AI Literacy Learning Activities

16. A Social Robot Connected with ChatGPT to Improve Cognitive Functioning in ASD Subjects

17. Humans Create More Novelty Than ChatGPT When Asked to Retell a Story

18. When He Feels Cold, He Goes to the Seahorse—Blending Generative AI into Multimaterial Storymaking for Family Expressive Arts Therapy

19. Large Language Models Have Divergent Effects on Self-Perceptions of Mind and the Attributes Considered Uniquely Human

20. Ascribing Consciousness to Artificial Intelligence: Human-AI Interaction and its Carry-Over Effects on Human-Human Interaction

21. Assessment of Engagement and Learning During Child-Robot Interaction using EEG Signals

22. Can Machines Think? Interaction and Perspective Taking with Robots Investigated via fMRI

23. Investigating Conversational Dynamics in Human-Robot Interaction with fMRI

24. "Rosita Reads With My Family": Developing A Bilingual Conversational Agent to Support Parent-Child Shared Reading

Today, I read an interesting paper about ChatGPT and Neuroscience.

Authors:
Riccardo Loconte
Graziella Orru
Mirco Tribastone
Pietro Pietrini
Giuseppe Sartori

I wrote a summary:

The prefrontal cortex in the human brain serves critical functions that define human cognition. These include reasoning, mentalizing, decision-making, planning, executive function, emotion regulation, and social cognition.

Therefore, the function of the prefrontal cortex is essential for human intelligence.

Given the advancements in cognitive abilities demonstrated by large language models, the researchers in the current study tested ChatGPT using a standard neuropsychological battery to assess its prefrontal cortex-like functioning.

The results highlighted areas where ChatGPT performed at a normal or superior level compared to typical adults with a college-level education. These areas included verbal reasoning—particularly in differentiating concepts, understanding idiomatic expressions and family relations, metaphor and idiom comprehension, and inhibition.

Overall, its performance in social cognition, such as understanding moral judgment, social situations, and human emotions, was within the normal range.

However, ChatGPT exhibited impaired abilities in planning, comprehending absurdities, and understanding others’ mental states and intentions.

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