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Clune’s distinction seems to me exactly right, with one qualification. Dreyfus’s original target was largely what later came to be…
It is still relevant. But perhaps someone will offer an argument why it is not.
My sense is that the Dreyfus critique was aimed primarily at what was called “good old fashioned ai,” an ultimately…
A quick comment before I’ve read the piece: It seems pertinent to both the debates and the assessment of the…
Mößner, N. and Erlach, K. (eds) (2026) Vermessene Philosophie: Konstruktion und Kontrolle wissenschaftlicher Expertise im digitalen Raum. London: Ubiquity Press.…
House of Mirrors: The Illusion of Phenomenal Consciousness, by François Kammerer, at Oxford University Press. The book is a defense…
…4.7% from the same time last year. Back in January, applicants were down over 7% from the prior year. The trend of more applicants emerging late in the season that we have noted before continues.
UPDATE: As of March 20, applicants are now down only 2.9% from last year. My guess is that we have hit bottom in terms of the applicant decline.
I don’t see any connection between the knowing how/that issue and LLM opacity. Can you elaborate?