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Resources for Teaching in the Age of ChatGPT & other LLMs
How do large language models (LLMs) affect how we understand our job as teachers, and how does it affect what we should do in order to do that job well? (more…)
Policing Is Not Pedagogy: On the Supposed Threat of ChatGPT (guest post)
“ChatGPT has just woken many of us up to the fact that we need to be better teachers, not better cops.” (more…)
GPT-4 and the Question of Intelligence
“The central claim of our work is that GPT-4 attains a form of general intelligence, indeed showing sparks of artificial general intelligence.” (more…)
How Academics Can Make Use of ChatGPT
Much of our talk about ChatGPT has been about students using it to cheat, but there are ways to use it that academics might be interested in trying for themselves. (more…)
Teaching Philosophy in a World with ChatGPT
“It will be difficult to make an entire class completely ChatGPT cheatproof. But we can at least make it harder for students to use it to cheat.” (I’m reposting this to encourage those teaching philosophy courses to share what they are doing differently this semester so as to teach effectively in a world in which their students have access to ChatGPT. It was origina..
Talking Philosophy with ChatGPT
Open AI recently released ChatGPT, a more conversational and seemingly more linguistically adept language model that is able to “answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.”
Thinking it might be fun to try to see how the language model performs as a Socratic conversation partner, I attempted a r..
If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them: GPT-3 Edition
“How to deal with GPT-3-written essays? Instead of scolding students not to use it, we ask them to generate a ten, choose the best one, and explain why. Unless they have a paid account, the word-count limit would make it impossible to use GPT-3 to also generate the explanation…” (more…)
Philosophers On GPT-3 (updated with replies by GPT-3)
Nine philosophers explore the various issues and questions raised by the newly released language model, GPT-3, in this edition of Philosophers On, guest edited by Annette Zimmermann. (more…)
Reviving the Philosophical Dialogue with Large Language Models (guest post)
“Far from abandoning the traditional values of philosophical pedagogy, LLM dialogues promote these values better than papers ever did.” (more…)
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books… (more…)
Using Generative AI to Teach Philosophy (w/ an interactive demo you can try) (guest post)
Philosophy teachers—Michael Rota, a professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota), is about to make your teaching a bit better and your life a bit easier. (more…)
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AI & the Professions
Large language models outperform humans as junior lawyers, according to a new study. (more…)
Philosophy, Creativity, and AI
“I sincerely believe that to save the humanities, within which I include philosophy, we are going to have to reconceive what we do as at least in part a creative endeavor—literary, artistic, imaginative, playful, in short, all those things of which a human spirit is capable, and a machine never will be.” (more…)
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Philosophy News in 2023
Happy New Year, philosofriends! Before Daily Nous returns to a more regular posting schedule (next week) I thought it would be worth taking a look at the philosophy-related news and issues that captured the attention of the philosophy profession in 2023. (more…)
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Teachers: Was the Semester AI-pocalyptic or Was It AI-OK?
A survey conducted at the end of last year indicated that 30% of college students had used ChatGPT for schoolwork. Undoubtedly, the number has gone up since then. Teachers: what have your experiences been like with student use of ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs)? (more…)
Philosophical Uses for LLMs: Modeling Philosophers
Now that OpenAI has made it possible for members of the (paying) public to customize its large language model (LLM), ChatGPT, with special instructions, extra knowledge, and particular combinations of skills, the prospects of using it to create useful, interesting, and maybe even insightful “model philosophers” have improved. (more…)
The Demand for “AI & Philosophy” Hires & Expertise — and Its Precedents
Over 20 jobs have been advertised this season at PhilJobs: Jobs for Philosophers that list among the desired areas of specialization or competence philosophy related to artificial intelligence (AI). (more…)
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Mind Chunks
Not-Very-Mini-Heap & The Subscription Problem
I didn’t publish any “Mini-Heap” posts over the summer for two reasons.
How to Tell Whether an AI Is Conscious (guest post)
“We can apply scientific rigor to the assessment of AI consciousness, in part because… we can identify fairly clear indicators associated with leading theories of consciousness, and show how to assess whether AI systems satisfy them.” (more…)
Summer 2023 Guest Posts Review
If you took the summer off from checking in on Daily Nous, you missed a lot of writing by other philosophers. (more…)