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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.
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month:
Philosophical Interventions: Reviews 1986-2011 by Martha C. Nussbaum (Oxford University Press, 2012).
Dignity: Its History and Meaning by Michael Rosen (Harvard University Press, 2012).
From Kant to Husserl: Selected Essays by Charles Parsons (Harvard University Press, 2012).
The Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy by Eckart Forster, trans. by Brady Bowman (Harvard University Press, 2012).
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