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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

Performance vs. competence in human-machine comparisons.

Chaz Firestone

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. The Comparison of Human and Machine Performance in Object Recognition.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  4. A Suite of LMs Comprehend Puzzle Statements as Well or Better Than Humans.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2026
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  5. On Benchmarking Human-like Intelligence in Machines.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2026
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  6. Revealing emergent human-like conceptual representations from language prediction.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  8. Re-evaluating Theory of Mind evaluation in large language models.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  11. Embers of autoregression show how large language models are shaped by the problem they are trained to solve.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  12. How Can Deep Neural Networks Inform Theory in Psychological Science?Current directions in psychological science · 2024
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  13. AI Psychometrics: Assessing the Psychological Profiles of Large Language Models Through Psychometric Inventories.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024
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  18. The neuroconnectionist research programme.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Chaz FirestoneDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 chaz@jhu.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-1247-2422

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Does the human mind resemble the machines that can behave like it? Biologically inspired machine-learning systems approach "human-level" accuracy in an astounding variety of domains, and even predict human brain activity-raising the exciting possibility that such systems represent the world like we do. However, even seemingly intelligent machines

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Artificial IntelligenceImage Processing, Computer-AssistedKnowledgeAnimalsBrainHumansMachine LearningSpecies SpecificityVisual Perceptionartificial intelligencecognitiondeep learningdevelopmentperception

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PMID33051296
PMCPMC7604508

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