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Very intrigued by this subject and in order to follow comments, I have to comment here. Thanks for opening this…
It’s not so much that “it won’t happen here”; it might, in the sense that it might be that in…
Is that so? What if AI writes the great American novel? We wouldn’t read it because it was written by…
Terence Tao just posted a guest essay to his blog by two philosophers on the recent Open AI Navier-Stokes result…
The comments on this thread of the “it won’t happen here” variety strike me as naive. There is a tendency…
The statement makes a clear and compelling point about the risks that the thoughtless use of AI to churn out…
As a mathematician I have all my skin in this game. One description of mathematics is as a continuing conversation…
Four years ago. One salutary development in the interim–perhaps due to the public outrage in 2017 over the abuse of Rebecca Tuvel by the usual suspects–is increasingly visible and vocal resistance to the "bloodthirsty mob of wacko philosophy profs" by other members of the profession.
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