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

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

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

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

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    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…

New Books in May

Brian Leiter

Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month:

Human Rights and the Care of the Self by Alexandre Lefebvre (Duke University Press, 2018).

The History of Animals:  A Philosophy by Oxana Timofeeva (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).

The Routledge Handbook of Consciousness edited by Rocco J. Gennaro (2018).

Plato as Critical Theorist by Jonny Thakkar (Harvard University Press, 2018).

The Value and Limits of Academic Speech:  Philosophical, Political, and Legal Perspectives edited by Donald Alexander Downs & Chris W. Suprenant (Routledge, 2018).

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