The Psychology of Large Language Models

Harvard FAS

How was ChatGPT inspired by your brain? As the use of large language models (LLMs) grows in popularity and applicability to academics, and as we grapple with how and when to incorporate them into the research process, having a foundational understanding of LLMs is critical to ensuring we are careful interpreters of these new, powerful tools. In this course, we will study the development of LLMs and how they were inspired by findings in psychology, linguistics, and cognitive neuroscience.…