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I disagree with the perspectives described here and wrote with my co-authors on the very real catastrophic potential of AI…
I don’t have much to say beyond: (1) I emphatically agree with everything Berg says, and (2) I am appalled…
I don’t think focusing on the label matters so much for answering the question. Substitute “artificial intelligence’, if you don’t…
It just occurred to me that one could subject one of the major AI companies’ LLMs to the aforesaid experiments…
Conversations about Pangram frequently involve people who say they’ve seen evidence it doesn’t work, but can’t produce it, so I’ll…
Replying to DW’s reply to me: Let’s grant Pangram is reliable in the standard cases (I still don’t fully trust…
I’d assumed Brian Garrett’s comment was meant as parody.
Varol Akman (Bilkent) calls my attention to this piece by an eminent British mathematician, Sir Michael Atiyah, which will, as Professor Akman notes, likely have resonance for philosophers as well.
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