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I tried the Trolley Car thought experiment. Got the machine to argue in bad faith in about 5 steps. Machine…
Thanks for posting this! I’ve been experimenting with putting A.I. into very structured set-ups like these Socratic questionnaires for teaching…
Pangram costs $20/month for 300,000 words / month, so a small journal receiving 20-30 10,000 word articles per month would…
@ The Pacific: Good questions. My point isn’t that journals can’t adopt that stance, only that I won’t referee for…
It would be a shame if bad philosophy of mind got us all killed. AI can absolutely have desires and…
Does AI really pose an existential risk? Answer: Yes. Reason: There is a pattern of people leaving these companies (foregoing…
This is a load of cobblers. Philosophers need to read more Searle & watch less 2001. Computers, however fancy, are…
…as part of his What is it like to be a philosopher? series. There's a lot of useful (and sobering) information for those exclusively interested in teaching philosophy.
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