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” Controlling the increasingly powerful foundation models is daunting enough, but controlling one that is conditioned to believe it has…
While Suleyman does claim that AI cannot be conscious, this is an auxiliary premise to his core thesis that training…
This Suleyman article is honestly too much of a confused mess for me to even want to write a substantive…
Thank you for your response. My argument concerns our present evidential situation of behaviour, not whether both systems could ultimately…
I would probably define conciousness as, the ability to discern that one’s self is an object. So to make this…
I’m not sure how helpful it is to frame this as a “the West vs the rest”-type debate, for a…
While I appreciate the biological direction this excerpt is heading in, I think it still reflects a problematically western approach…
Peter Anstey, Professor of Early Modern Philosophy at the University of Otago, has accepted a four-year Australian Future Fellowship at the University of Sydney, which will then convert into a permanent position in the Department of Philosophy. He commences at Sydney in December.
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