Steven Piantadosi | Polylogues

In Spring 2025, the Simons Institute hosted a workshop on LLMs, Cognitive Science, Linguistics, and Neuroscience. In this episode of Polylogues, Spring 2025 Science Communicator in Residence Christoph Drösser sits down with one of the workshop’s organizers and presenters, psychology and neuroscience professor Steven Piantadosi (UC Berkeley). The two discuss how large language models are impacting our understanding of foundational questions in the theory of language.