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Can AI Write a Useful Philosophical Literature Review? (guest post)

A pair of philosophers have developed a new research tool that uses AI to provide comprehensive and reliable philosophical literature reviews, and they’d like you to give it a try. (more…)

Is Artificial General Intelligence Here?

“For the first time in human history, we are no longer alone in the space of general intelligence.” (more…)

On the Use of AI in Comments

I’ve updated the Comments Policy at Daily Nous with a passage about using AI to write comments here. (more…)

Beyond Authorship Vibes: Preserving Judgment and Trust in the Age of AI (guest post)

Artificial intelligence is an amazing technology, but also one that seems to pose threats to human relations, to aspects of human flourishing, and to education. (more…)

Reviewing an LLM-written paper (guest post)

A philosopher noticed something off about the paper he was refereeing for a journal. (more…)

Grading Prompts to Measure Student Learning (guest post)

In this era of AI, “can we still rely on take-home writing assignments to assess student learning? And, should we allow students to use ChatGPT in order to complete such assignments? My answer to both questions is ‘yes’.” (more…)

Editor of Ethics Floats AI-Use Guidelines

In a recent editorial, Douglas Portmore (Notre Dame), the editor-in-chief of Ethics, sets forth some “initial guidelines” about AI use for the journal. (more…)

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 on the ethics of doing so. But what about the mechanics of doing so? (more…)

If You Want Your Students Completing Their Coursework Without Help from AI…

…how do you make that happen? (more…)

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 recent developments.

The following is from an email from Gus Skorburg, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Guelph:

I wanted to share some stuff related to Anthropic’s Claude mode..

Philosophers Develop AI-Based Teaching Tool to Promote Constructive Disagreement (guest post)

One way of thinking about the job of a philosophy instructor is that it’s about teaching students to disagree well. Yet when it comes to some moral, social, and political issues, students may seem reluctant to voice their own views in the classroom, let alone argue about them there. (more…)

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 or forms of generative AI? If given the choice, should you go along with it?

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This App May Indicate Something Is Deeply Wrong with Us

But what? (more…)

One University’s AI Guide for Students, Written with the Help of AI

“When permitted, you can use AI tools for help but not to do the work for you.” (more…)

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 hasn’t released it yet, despite concerns about widespread student cheating on assignments with it, as well as other illicit uses. (more…)

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 to create a new business that brings together great books, expert commentary, and artificial intelligence. (more…)

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…)

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…)

AI & the Professions

Large language models outperform humans as junior lawyers, according to a new study. (more…)

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