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Computational models have successfully simulated the cultural creation and development of artificial languages
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Peer-reviewed literature indicates that computational modeling and simulation frameworks have successfully explored the cultural evolution and shaping of language.

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2024 · cited by 20
Research in cultural evolution aims at providing causal explanations for the change of culture over time. Over the past decades, this field has generated an important body of knowledge, using experimental, historical, and computational methods. While computational models have been very successful at generating testable hypotheses about the effects of several factors, such as population structure or transmission biases, some phenomena have so far been more complex to capture using agent-based and formal models. This is in particular the case for the effect of the transformations of social information induced by evolved cognitive mechanisms. We here propose that leveraging the capacity of Large Language Models (LLMs) to mimic human behavior may be fruitful to address this gap. On top of being an useful approximation of human cultural dynamics, multi-agents models featuring generative agents are also important to study for their own sake. Indeed, as artificial agents are bound to participate more and more to the evolution of culture, it is crucial to better understand the dynamics of machine-generated cultural evolution. We here present a framework for simulating cultural evolution in populations of LLMs, allowing the manipulation of variables known to be important in cultural evolution, such as network structure, personality, and the way social information is aggregated and transformed. The software we developed for conducting these simulations is open-source and features an intuitive user-interface, which we hope will help to build bridges between the fields of cultural evolution and generative artificial intelligence.
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2013 · cited by 2
Computational and mathematical modeling has revealed that cultural evolution may have played a key role in the evolution of language. In this chapter, I explore the hypothesis that processes of cultural transmission have to a large extent shaped language to fit domain-general constraints deriving from the human brain. An implication of this view is that much of the neural hardware involved in language is not specific to it. But how could language have evolved to be as complex as it is without language-specific constraints? Based on computational modeling of the cultural evolution of language, I propose that language has evolved to rely on a multitude of probabilistic information sources for its acquisition, allowing it to be as expressive as possible while still being learnable by domain-general learning mechanisms. Empirical predictions are derived from this perspective regarding the role of phonological cues in the learning of basic aspects of syntax. These predictions are corroborated by results from corpus analyses, computational modeling, and human experimentation, suggesting that the integration of phonological cues with other types of information is integral to the computational architecture of our language capacity. I conclude by considering how computational modeling of cultural evolution can help us understand the evolution of language.
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Sound units play a pivotal role in cognitive models of auditory comprehension. The general consensus is that during perception listeners break down speech into auditory words and subsequently phones. Indeed, cognitive speech recognition is typically taken to be computationally intractable without phones. Here we present a computational model trained on 20 hours of conversational speech that recognizes word meanings within the range of human performance (model 25%, native speakers 20–44%), without making use of phone or word form representations. Our model also generates successfully prediction
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