“Artificial Intelligence” and cognate topics
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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…
Porphyry of Tyre on Theology and Theurgy (Harvard University Press & Center for the Study of World Religions, 2026) Permanently…