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ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2024

Active inference goes to school: the importance of active learning in the age of large language models.

Laura Desirèe Di Paolo, Ben White, Avel Guénin-Carlut, Axel Constant, Andy Clark

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Article in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Educating minds with generative AI.Communications psychology · 2026
    Review
  2. Minds in movement: embodied cognition in the age of artificial intelligence.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Laura Desirèe Di PaoloDepartment of Engineering and Informatics, The University of Sussex , Brighton, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3265-3850
Ben WhiteDepartment of Philosophy, The University of Sussex , Sussex, UK.
Avel Guénin-CarlutDepartment of Engineering and Informatics, The University of Sussex , Brighton, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8239-7264
Axel ConstantDepartment of Engineering and Informatics, The University of Sussex , Brighton, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1547-8803
Andy ClarkDepartment of Engineering and Informatics, The University of Sussex , Brighton, UK.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human learning essentially involves embodied interactions with the material world. But our worlds now include increasing numbers of powerful and (apparently) disembodied generative artificial intelligence (AI). In what follows we ask how best to understand these new (somewhat 'alien', because of their disembodied nature) resources and how to incorporate them in our educational practices. We focus on methodologies that encourage exploration and embodied interactions with 'prepared' material environments, such as the carefully organized settings of Montessori education. Using the active inference framework, we approach our questions by thinking about human learning as epistemic foraging and prediction error minimization. We end by arguing that generative AI should figure naturally as new elements in prepared learning environments by facilitating sequences of precise prediction error enabling trajectories of self-correction. In these ways, we anticipate new synergies between (apparently) di

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Artificial IntelligenceLearningCognitionHumansLanguageProblem-Based Learning4E: embodied, embedded, enacted, extendedactive inference and predictive processinglearningLLMsmaterial engagementMontessori method

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PMID39155715
PMCPMC11391319

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