Cameron Robert Jones

Cameron Jones is a PhD Student in Cognitive Science at UC San Diego. His work focuses on how human beings use their embodied experience with the world to understand language and whether artificial models could understand language in a human-like way. He runs experiments that compare the way in which humans and language models respond to sentences that are theorised to require embodied experience to understand: for example, sentences about physical events, affordances, or social interactions. To the extent that human responses can't be predicted by text-only language models, these experiments suggests that human comprehenders are drawing on experience that goes beyond language alone.