Category: technology
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Best Next Moves: How Philosophers Can Make Good Use of Theory-Driven GPTs (guest post)
We’ve talked previously about some of the various tasks that philosophers might have large language models help them with in their work, mainly focusing…
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AI and the Ecological Accomplishment of Literacy
“While contemporary discussions often focus on what we read or how we teach reading, the deeper truth is that literacy itself is an astonishingly fragile achievement.”
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Philosophers and Anthropic’s Claude
A philosophy professor writes in sharing some news about the “character” and “well-being” of Anthropic’s LLM, Claude, noting how philosophers have been involved with…
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Professors, How Are You Using AI in Your Day to Day Work?
More outside of academia than within it, one hears things like “in a few years saying ‘I don’t use AI’ will sound as weird…
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California State University System to Become “AI-Powered”
The Chancellor of the California State University (CSU) system has announced that its 23 universities will become “AI-powered.”
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“Gpt could easily get a PhD on any philosophical topic”
“If you do it right, talking with Gpt is like talking with someone who’s seriously studied and thought hard about philosophy. Gpt could easily…
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A New Tool to Track and Analyze Philosophers’ Mentions (guest post)
Philosophers have always referred to other philosophers in their writing, but not always with citations.
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When Publishers Want to License Your Book to Generative AI Firms (updated)
Is it part of your book contract that your publisher may license your book to the makers of ChatGPT or other large language models…
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AI As History of Philosophy Tool
How would Aristotle have responded to Newcomb’s problem? What would John Locke have thought about end-user license agreements? What objection would Immanuel Kant raise…
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OpenAI Has Kept Secret an Accurate ChatGPT Detector for Two Years
According to The Wall Street Journal, “OpenAI has a method to reliably detect when someone uses ChatGPT to write an essay or research paper” but…
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Two Philosophers Bring Expert-Based AI to Your Reading Experience
John Kaag (University of Massachusetts, Lowell) and Clancy Martin (University of Missouri, Kansas City) have teamed up with businessman and philosophy enthusiast John Dubuque…
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Play a Game to Improve a Philosophical Research Tool (guest post)
“What papers talk about P?” “Who argues that P?”
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Say Hello to this Philosopher’s ExTRA
Appropriately enough, Luciano Floridi (Yale), known for his work in the philosophy of information and technology, may be the first philosopher with a… well,…
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AI & the Professions
Large language models outperform humans as junior lawyers, according to a new study.
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A Case for AI Wellbeing (guest post)
“There are good reasons to think that some AIs today have wellbeing.”
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Researchers Call for More Work on Consciousness
In light of the continued development and growing use of large language models (e.g., ChatGPT), other kinds of neural networks, generative agents, and the…
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Minds, Models, MRIs, and Meaning
“AI Is Getting Better at Mind-Reading” is how The New York Times puts it.
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Philosophy Sites in the Google Dataset Used to Train Some LLMs
“This text is the AI’s main source of information about the world as it is being built, and it influences how it responds to…