“Artificial Intelligence” and cognate topics
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How LLMs write
This is a very apt diagnosis by philosopher Luciano Floridi; an excerpt: Hedging — compulsive softening to avoid commitment. “It’s worth noting,” “arguably,” “in many ways,” “to some extent,” “it could be said that,” “it’s important to remember,” “there’s a sense in which”…. Throat-clearing — long preambles before getting to the point. “Before we dive…
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AI developer warns the AI jobs apocalypse is closer than we realize
Here; an excerpt: [O]n February 5th, two major AI labs released new models on the same day: GPT-5.3 Codex from OpenAI, and Opus 4.6 from Anthropic (the makers of Claude, one of the main competitors to ChatGPT). And something clicked. Not like a light switch… more like the moment you realize the water has been…
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Do LLMs already have human-level intelligence?
Philosophers Eddy Chen and David Danks and two colleagues (in machine learning theory and linguistics) give an affirmative answer. Professor Chen kindly shared a “view-only” link for their article. What do informed readers think?
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What to do about the sycophancy of large language models?
I don’t use them a lot, but I had noticed this tendency even for rather mundane queries.
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Graduate school admissions in the age of AI
This is going to become a very serious issue. PhD and MA admissions depend very importantly on the writing sample. What do programs do when they later come to suspect the admitted student used AI to produce the writing sample? I think all graduate programs need to adopt an absolutely draconian rule, namely, automatic expulsion…
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Does “consciousness” require more than computation?
Sean Carroll discusses with philosopher Ned Block.
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What can philosophy contribute to the effort to make AI helpful in the empirical sciences and mathematics?
Reader Matteo Bianchetti writes: Thanks very much for your list of the most cited books in the philosophy of empirical sciences. Reading that list made me think of the following. Several prominent AI companies are promoting the use of AI to advance the empirical sciences and mathematics. This is an example. These companies collaborate with…
Litigator here (and former Leiter student), but with only a few years under my belt. Benjamin B. — This is…