James Strachan

Better late than never to announce that I have now moved to take up a one-year postdoc position at the Université Mohamed VI Polytechnique #UM6P in Rabat, Morocco 🇲🇦

Very excited to get started on this new chapter

Testing theory of mind in large language models and humans - Nature Human Behaviour At the core of what defines us as humans is the concept of theory of mind: the ability to track other people’s mental states. The recent development of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT has...

New paper out now in Nature Human Behaviour

We administered a range of standard Theory of Mind tests to LLMs and humans in order to compare how models performed at tests of social reasoning

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Very pleased to announce that the first study from my PhD thesis is out now 🥳 with thanks to @ConstableMerryn
and all my other wonderful co-authors!
Chimpanzees exhibit a behavioural signature of human social coordination:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out our paper (thread below) on Flexible Cultural Learning Through Action Coordination in Perspectives on Psychological Science