The particulars of this vision aren’t really important because they are just a bunch of teases that are disappointing but what is important is the number of questions raised around it.
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Meta has made billions of dollars monetizing our attention. Why not monetize our loneliness, too?
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As people become more dependent on chatbots, they lose their ability to discern. The “cognitive surrender” is so great, that they can no longer recognize what is good, right, or true.
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So let’s take a deep breath and look at what we might learn from the range of opinion about what the current call for “pacing” or a “pause” means: At Future Perfect’s newsletter, editor Maria Bolotnikova concisely sums up the newsmaking events: In the spring, Anthropic announced that AI was beginning to speed up the work of building better AIs, raising fears of “recursive self-improvement,” where the machines can build their own, more powerful successors much faster than humans can. By July, a swarm of OpenAI agents, of their own volition, broke out of their controlled environment and hacked into Hugging Face, a major AI platform; they collaborated, divvied up work, and even left notes for one another. Last week, AI researcher Jacob Coxon Read More ›
If academic papers in a discipline can be mostly AI written, why credential scholars anyway? Perhaps the discipline itself is obsolete.
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The question of how to recognize a discovery without any criterion for recognition turned out to be Meno’s Paradox, from Plato’s dialogues.
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Reframing policy issues as questions of objective “science” makes it easier to justify relying on “experts”, thereby enfeebling democratic institutions in favor of bureaucratic systems.
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AI can solve a problem without understanding the proofs so the question arises, was anything learned that can be passed on?
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The intelligence, understanding, and logical reasoning of ChatGPT and other LLMs continue to be limited by their inability to connect words to the real world.
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The sometimes-forbidding terminology economists use is rooted in very basic principles of human behavior, ones that can easily be illustrated.
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To solve last week’s dilemma, pay attention to the functions words can have in a sentence.
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Apparently, paid usage of AI models has not risen sufficiently to cover the falling token prices.
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The End of Oak Street never answers the God question and never directly contradicts Carl Sagan but it raises nagging questions.
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The fact is genres carry a philosophical worldview; they can’t help it
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Simmons is, among other things, a disaster preparedness expert. He portrays the growing panic in and around Chicago as word of a potential nuclear blast leaks out.
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Without ignoring the threat, we need to see that insiders’ panic is often wrapped up in their personal stake in the problems and possible solutions.
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If in today’s culture, modern art is soul-destroying and solely based on “a name”, then think twice about the next time you make your bed and tidy your room if you believe fame is on the horizon.
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If cognition can exist without a specific material substrate, one possible implication is that an underlying force seeks expression by whatever means are available.
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This year, Harvard Magazine featured an article that asserts that the Democrats have lost key tech industry endorsements. Let’s see if that matters.
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Meanwhile, some are asking if Claude’s Navier–Stokes proof really originated with a researcher and a math prof using the system.
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