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1 Apr 2024
Can AI ace law exams?
Last year, OpenAI announced GPT-4 got 90th percentile on the bar.
Here we (a) refute 90th percentile claim; (b) replicate/extend recent work on GPT capabilities; (c) discuss implications for law profession.
Now open, AI&Law: link.springer.com/article/10…
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Eric Martínez retweeted
19 Mar 2025
Now out in PNAS!
Link to the paper: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
News story by MIT News: news.mit.edu/2025/esperanto-…
29 Jul 2023
What is a language?
Some think math, logic and music are like natural languages, but the brain doesn't treat them as such.
What about constructed languages?
Here is a preprint on what we discovered in @ev_fedorenko ’s lab: tinyurl.com/2p8f8vnp
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Eric Martínez retweeted
4 Mar 2025
MIT researchers found that legal language is intentionally complex, not for clarity, but to create a false sense of authority. Even lawyers prefer plain English. mitsha.re/iMCm50ValLB
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So true
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Eric Martínez retweeted
16 Dec 2024
Think about this study a lot
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New paper with @alexanderdfung, @PramodRT9 , @jessica__chomik , @Nancy_Kanwisher, @ev_fedorenko on the representations that underlie our intuitive physical reasoning about the world. Thread 🧵about our new preprint 📄✨linked here: tinyurl.com/intphyslang 1/10
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Eric Martínez retweeted
19 Nov 2024
David did a “scientist interview” with me his freshman year, and I immediately recruited him to help with our law in the brain project. So happy to see him advancing in his academic career! ✨
18 Nov 2024
Congrats to the 4 MIT students who have been named 2025 Rhodes Scholars - esp David Oluigbo in @ev_fedorenko lab, who plans to apply AI to complex medical problems and systemic healthcare challenges. 🙌 mcgovern.mit.edu/2024/11/16/…
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Eric Martínez retweeted
18 Nov 2024
Congrats to the 4 MIT students who have been named 2025 Rhodes Scholars - esp David Oluigbo in @ev_fedorenko lab, who plans to apply AI to complex medical problems and systemic healthcare challenges. 🙌 mcgovern.mit.edu/2024/11/16/…
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Eric Martínez retweeted
23 Oct 2024
Out now in Cognitive Science: We investigate how people think judges should handle immoral laws. Should judges follow the law no matter what, or can exceptions be made for (grossly) immoral laws? We surveyed 167 laypeople and 141 participants with legal training to find out.
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Eric Martínez retweeted
8 Oct 2024
[Please retweet!] My paper, 'Cognitive Representations of Social Relationships and their Developmental Origins" has been accepted at Behavioral and Brain Sciences! I'm thrilled to be able to engage with people's commentary! Please consider writing one! osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/xh…
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Eric Martínez retweeted
30 Sep 2024
Many AI governance stakeholders agree that certain laws or regulations should apply only to “frontier models.” But what is a “frontier model”? LawAI’s latest working paper discusses some of the most important legal considerations for efforts to define that term: law-ai.org/frontier-model-de…
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Eric Martínez retweeted
24 Sep 2024
@LanguageMIT and I are so pleased about this:
mitpress.mit.edu/cognitive-s…
Thanks to @HarvardLibrary @mitlibraries @mitpress for making this happen!
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Eric Martínez retweeted
10 Sep 2024
Our philosophy-informed LLM papers now out in TACL! See the improved paper or thread linked below for more on “bibliotechnism”, the referential ability of ngram models, what it means to say LLMs (or humans) have beliefs, beachgoing bardolaters, and more.
direct.mit.edu/tacl/article/…
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Eric Martínez retweeted
10 Sep 2024
Very humbled to be in such amazing company on this list... Congrats to everyone recognized!
So, so grateful for the support from my mentors and collaborators.
10 Sep 2024
The Download: introducing our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2024 trib.al/eXYFtVL
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Eric Martínez retweeted
10 Sep 2024
Excited to have been named one of @techreview's 35 under 35!
I am happy that, these days, language & human cognition are topics that the world cares deeply about (thanks to recent developments in AI). Not only are these topics impactful, they are also fun to study!
10 Sep 2024
The Download: introducing our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2024 trib.al/eXYFtVL
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Eric Martínez retweeted
20 Aug 2024
🚨New preprint!🚨 My first first-author project with @RouseTurner @natvelali @cocosci_lab
How do people evaluate idle collaborators who don’t help out during group tasks?
TL;DR: Sometimes it’s okay not to help with the dishes 🧵👇
Link: tinyurl.com/32wfwkxp
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Eric Martínez retweeted
22 Aug 2024
This applies to many more industries than law
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Eric Martínez retweeted
26 Aug 2024
Now out in Cognition!
➰"Ambivalence by Design: A Computational Account of Loopholes"➰
by Qian, Bridgers, Parece, @MayaTaliaferro, and me
bit.ly/cognitionLoophole
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Eric Martínez retweeted
21 Aug 2024
MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style. The convoluted “legalese” used in legal documents conveys a special sense of authority, and even non-lawyers have learned to wield it. news.mit.edu/2024/mit-study-…
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Eric Martínez retweeted
20 Aug 2024
Why are legal documents so impenetrable? Just as “magic spells” use special rhymes and archaic terms to signal their power, the convoluted language of legalese conveys a sense of authority, cognitive scientists have found. mitsha.re/Cpqt50T224n
ALT Stack of legal papers and gavel.
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Eric Martínez retweeted
26 Aug 2024
New study: nonlawyer lawmakers "wrote in a more convoluted manner" perhaps to sound more "authoritative". So we maybe we can simplify laws without sacrificing content.
@PNASNews article by @UChicagoLaw's @ericgrimani, and profs at @UniMelb & @MIT
pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pna…
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