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Humans evolved instruction-following bias, similar to LLMs, paper suggests

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A new position paper proposes that humans possess an evolved instruction-following bias, an innate inductive bias that enables rapid learning from instructions. This bias is compared to the instruction tuning used in large language models (LLMs) for zero-shot task performance. The paper synthesizes evidence from cognitive science, neuroscience, and machine learning to support this hypothesis and calls for interdisciplinary research into instruction-following as a unifying mechanism for task learning in both humans and AI. AI

IMPACT Suggests a potential unifying mechanism for task learning across humans and AI, potentially influencing future AI training methodologies.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper discussing a hypothesis about human cognitive abilities and their parallels with AI.

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Anjishnu Kumar ·

    Are Humans Evolved Instruction Followers? An Underlying Inductive Bias Enables Rapid Instructed Task Learning

    arXiv:2606.29792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human adults can often perform a novel task correctly on the first attempt after only receiving verbal or written instructions. This rapid instructed task learning (RITL) is a hallmark of human cognitive flexibility, yet its mechani…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Anjishnu Kumar ·

    Are Humans Evolved Instruction Followers? An Underlying Inductive Bias Enables Rapid Instructed Task Learning

    Human adults can often perform a novel task correctly on the first attempt after only receiving verbal or written instructions. This rapid instructed task learning (RITL) is a hallmark of human cognitive flexibility, yet its mechanisms and parallels in artificial systems remain u…

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