Presented at the SAIL Workshop – Fundamental Limits of Large Language Models Prof. Iris van Rooij (Radboud University, Netherlands & Aarhus University, Denmark) re-introduced the notion of artificial intelligence as part of cognitive science and argued that, rather than trying to build models that mimic human intelligence (which they dubbed “Makeism”), one should treat computational models of human cognition as theoretical tools or formal hypotheses. Prof. van Rooij and colleagues underlined this view by presenting a theorem showing that, without additional assumptions on the class of models, learning a model of human cognition (or approximations thereof) from example data is NP-hard.

Literature: – Van Rooij, Guest, Adolfi, de Haan, Kolokolova, and Rich (2023). Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science. psyArXiv.