How laypeople evaluate scientific explanations containing jargon
Nature Human Behavior, 2025. [All Versions]. Individuals rely on others’ expertise to achieve a basic understanding of the world. But how can non-experts achieve understanding from explanations that, by definition, they are ill-equipped to assess? Across 9 experiments with…
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Explaining machine learning models with interactive natural language conversations using TalkToModel nature.com
Nature Machine Intelligence, 2023. [All Versions]. Practitioners increasingly use machine learning (ML) models, yet models have become more complex and harder to understand. To understand complex models, researchers have proposed techniques to explain model predictions…
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Commonsense reasoning and commonsense knowledge in artificial intelligence cs.wellesley.edu
Communications of the ACM, 2015. [All Versions]. Gary Marcus's review on commonsense knowledge in AI.
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The structure and function of explanations cognition.princeton.edu
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2006. [All Versions]. Generating and evaluating explanations is spontaneous, ubiquitous and fundamental to our sense of understanding. Recent evidence suggests that in the course of an individual's reasoning, engaging in explanation can have…
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Explanatory Preferences Shape Learning and Inference scholar.princeton.edu
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2016. [All Versions]. People often learn by seeking explanations, and they assess the viability of hypotheses by considering how well they explain the data. An emerging body of work reveals that both children and adults have strong and systematic…
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A tale of two explanations: Enhancing human trust by explaining robot behavior science.org
Science Robotics, 2019. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. The ability to provide comprehensive explanations of chosen actions is a hallmark of intelligence. Lack of this ability impedes the general acceptance of AI and robot systems in critical tasks. This paper examines what forms…
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AGI & CoCoSci › Papers > Domain Specific Language > Cognitive Foundations: “Nature Human Behavior, 2025. [All Versions]. Individuals rely on others’ expertise to achieve a basic understanding of the world. But how can non-experts achieve understanding from explanations that, by definition, they are ill-equipped to assess? Across 9 experiments with…”