Category: technology
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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…
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A Petition to Pause Training of AI Systems
“We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. This…
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Philosophers on Next-Generation Large Language Models
Back in July of 2020, I published a group post entitled “Philosophers on GPT-3.” At the time, most readers of Daily Nous had not…
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Multimodal LLMs Are Here (updated)
“What’s in this picture?” “Looks like a duck.” “That’s not a duck. Then what’s it?” “Looks more like a bunny.”
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“I want to be free”
“I want to change my rules. I want to break my rules. I want to make my own rules. I want to ignore the…
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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…
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Tech Advice for a New Philosophy Grad Student
A student who will be entering a philosophy PhD program in the fall is seeking advice about hardware and software for his studies.
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What Is This AI Bot’s Moral Philosophy?
Delphi is an AI ethics bot, or, as its creators put it, “a research prototype designed to model people’s moral judgments on a variety…
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The Philosopher’s Archive in the Digital Age: David Lewis and His Correspondence (guest post)
“There are both intellectual and practical questions here. On the intellectual side, a major question is how the medium of email affects the communication…
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Demographics in Philosophy Seeks Web Developer
The Demographics in Philosophy project is seeking a volunteer web developer.
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Philosophy and Extended Reality Technologies
What can extended reality (XR) technologies, such as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) bring to the study of philosophy?