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I disagree with the perspectives described here and wrote with my co-authors on the very real catastrophic potential of AI…
I don’t have much to say beyond: (1) I emphatically agree with everything Berg says, and (2) I am appalled…
I don’t think focusing on the label matters so much for answering the question. Substitute “artificial intelligence’, if you don’t…
It just occurred to me that one could subject one of the major AI companies’ LLMs to the aforesaid experiments…
Conversations about Pangram frequently involve people who say they’ve seen evidence it doesn’t work, but can’t produce it, so I’ll…
Replying to DW’s reply to me: Let’s grant Pangram is reliable in the standard cases (I still don’t fully trust…
I’d assumed Brian Garrett’s comment was meant as parody.
A longtime member of the philosophy faculty at Wellesley College, where she was emerita, she was best-known for her work on various important figures in American pragmatism. There is a brief obituary here. I will add links to other memorial notices as they appear.
(Thanks to David Guberman for alerting me to her passing.)
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