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  1. Mark's avatar

    I just want to address this comment: > What initially presents itself as impressive intelligence can, upon closer inspection by…

  2. sahpa's avatar

    Hi Dan, Actually, no, that the engine is next-token prediction does not entail that “there is only so much recycling,…

  3. Mark's avatar

    I’m a mathematician who works on AI research, though not specifically on training LLMs. Basically, we really don’t know what’s…

  4. Luis Marxuach's avatar

    My experience with LLMs as a layperson/non-philosopher is that the aforesaid are excellent as spell checkers and translators (and, at…

  5. 永江 守's avatar

    I think we need to separate several different issues here: the future of the university, the future of education, the…

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    Unless we accept dualism, ultimately any creative process comes down to high-level emergent consequences of a very complex system whose…

2014 in review (February): Criticisms of the Site Committee Report on Colorado

We hosted, to the unhappiness of some, a discussion of the controversial Report.  Shortly after the discussion began, I received several e-mails from Sally Haslanger who reported that she and others were unable to identify one of the participants, "Jane Brownstein," despite sleuthing to identify "her".  In fact, it turned out that name was a pseudonym, though the eagerness of some (which astonished me) to find out who would say such heterodox things makes the use of a pseudonym more understandable in retrospect.

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