Tag: Blind Spot (MIT 2024)

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March 12, 2024

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Philosophy, Science

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Adam Frank, Blind Spot (MIT 2024), Evan Thompson, Marcelo Gleiser, Materialism and dead ends in science, Science and human experience (Frank et al.)}

Grappling Honestly With Science’s Blind Spot

_{An astrophysicist, a theoretical physicist, and a philosopher all walk into a bar and say, “At the heart of science lies something we do not see that makes science possible” Um… yes!} _{News

March 12, 2024

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Philosophy, Science}

In their essay, Blind Spot authors Frank, Gleiser, and Thompson seem to sense that dredging up pat materialist answers that don’t really work won’t help much. Read More ›

ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence conversational chat bot by open ai using machine learning, Generative AI

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Date
February 26, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence, Human exceptionalism

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Adam Frank on LLM hallucinations, Artificial intelligence vs human intelligence, Blind Spot (MIT 2024), Evan Thompson, Hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs), Human experience and human intelligence (Adam Frank), Marcelo Gleiser}

Astrophysicist: Don’t Say That Chatbots “Hallucinate”

_{Adam Frank points out that human-type “hallucination” is not at all what drives a chatbot to claim that the Russians sent bears into space} _{News

February 26, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence, Human exceptionalism}

Frank, fellow physicist Marcelo Gleiser, and philosopher Evan Thompson argue in a new book that ignoring explicitly human experience is a blind spot for science Read More ›