Tag: large language models
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Is Artificial General Intelligence Here?
“For the first time in human history, we are no longer alone in the space of general intelligence.”
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Reviewing an LLM-written paper (guest post)
A philosopher noticed something off about the paper he was refereeing for a journal.
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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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If You Want Your Students Completing Their Coursework Without Help from AI…
…how do you make that happen?
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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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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…
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A Philosopher’s Reflections on Teaching in a World with AI
“I once believed my students and I were in this together, engaged in a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated over the…
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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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The Teaching of Writing in the AI Era (Updated)
“Every professor I know wasted countless hours of 2024 in the prevention or detection of AI-powered cheating. It is a miserable war of attrition…
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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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Philosophy of AI / AI Ethics Syllabi, Lessons, Readings
As artificial intelligence (or “artificial intelligence” if you insist) is put to increased use in an increased variety of ways, teaching about it has…
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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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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.”
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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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AI Generated Content and Academic Journals
What are good policy options for academic journals regarding the detection of AI generated content and publication decisions?
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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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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…