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Refactor lecture 20 discussion slides: citations to note-boxes, remove Goldstein (already in L18)
- Separate citations into note-boxes, concepts into definition/example/important boxes - Consolidate dual citation note-boxes into single References boxes to prevent overflow - Remove Goldstein et al. (2022) from slides, summary, and readings (already presented in L18) - Fix scale classes (scale-75/80) so all slides render without content cutoff - Update README.md to remove Goldstein reading entry
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**Friday (Lecture 20):** Language, Thought, and Other Brains
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- Encoder applications recap: industry scale, cost advantages over decoders
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- Brain-LLM alignment: layer-specific prediction of brain activity, Mind's Transformer
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- Brain-LLM alignment: The Mind's Transformer — intra-block hierarchy mirrors cortical processing
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- Language as wireless brain activity transmission: neural coupling (Stephens et al., 2010)
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- Memory transfer through narrative (Zadbood et al., 2017), LLMs bridging brains (Zada et al., 2024)
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- Understanding is prediction: next-word prediction mirrors the brain (Schrimpf et al., 2021)
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- What LLMs have inside: monosemantic features (Anthropic, 2024) vs. grounding problem (LeCun, 2022)
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- Deep discussion: lossy channels, alignment puzzles, the prediction test, experience and simulation
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- Reading: [Stephens, Silbert & Hasson (2010)](https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1008662107) - Speaker-listener neural coupling
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- Reading: [Goldstein et al. (2022)](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-01026-4) - GPT-2 predicts brain activity
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- Reading: [Schrimpf et al. (2021)](https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2105646118) - Neural architecture of language
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- Reading: [Delétang et al. (2024)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.10668) - Language modeling is compression
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- Reading: [Queloz & Beckmann (2025)](https://philarchive.org/rec/QUEWWC-2) - Understanding as predictive compression
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- Reading: [Fedorenko et al. (2024)](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07522-w) - Language vs. thought
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- Reading: [Shanahan (2024)](https://doi.org/10.1145/3624724) - LLMs as role-play engines
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- 📓 [Companion Notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/github/ContextLab/llm-course/blob/main/slides/week6/encoder_applications_demo.ipynb)
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- 📊 [Slides PDF](https://contextlab.github.io/llm-course/slides/week6/lecture20.pdf) | 🌐 [Slides HTML](https://contextlab.github.io/llm-course/slides/week6/lecture20.html)
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