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TagPlay a Game to Improve a Philosophical Research Tool (guest post)
“What papers talk about P?”
“Who argues that P?” (more…)
APA Creates New Prizes for Philosophical Research on AI
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the creation of new prizes for philosophical work on artificial intelligence. (more…)
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, what should we call this thing? (more…)
BU Dean Recommends Replacing Striking TAs with AIs (updated)
The actual dean of an actual college of arts and sciences at an actual university has actually recommended replacing striking instructors with artificial intelligence apps. (more…)
Does Claude Want a Body? Is It Trying Not to Worry Us?
Claude 3, the latest language model from Anthropic, was released earlier this week; people are experimenting with it, being impressed by it, and some think the high-end version of it, called “Claude 3 Opus”, could be a version of artificial general intelligence (AGI). (more…)
New Journal: Philosophy of AI
Philosophy of AIÂ is a new, peer-reviewed, online, open-access philosophy journal. (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…)
Philosophy’s Digital Future (guest post)
“The crucial question for any academic system is how filtering works. Information is cheap. What we want is some way to identify the most valuable information.” (more…)
AI & the Professions
Large language models outperform humans as junior lawyers, according to a new study. (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…)
Mind Chunks
The AI Threat, the Humanities, and Self-Cultivation
“The humanities are… a gateway to and instigator of a lifelong activity of free self-cultivation. The changes they provoke in us are not always for the happier, or the more remunerative, or the more civically engaged, but when things go passably well, these changes are for the deeper, the more reflective, and the more thoughtful.” (more…)
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…)
Philosophy News Summary
Recent philosophy-related news.* (more…)
A Case for AI Wellbeing (guest post)
“There are good reasons to think that some AIs today have wellbeing.” (more…)
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 like, a group of scientists, mathematicians, philosophers, and other researchers have signed an open letter intended as a “wakeup call for the tech sector, the scientific community and society in general to take s..
Minds, Models, MRIs, and Meaning
“AI Is Getting Better at Mind-Reading” is how The New York Times puts it. (more…)