#philAI

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2025-12-20

Recording of Professor Alice Crary’s UCD School of Philosophy/Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Public Lecture: ‘If you’re not outraged about AI, you’re not paying attention Philosophy in the time of techno-fascism’

Conferencia pública anual de la profesora Alice Crary en la Facultad de Filosofía de UCD/Real Instituto de Filosofía: «Si no te indigna la IA, no estás prestando atención: La filosofía en la era del tecnofascismo»
youtu.be/Z3s7yRJ_CEo?ucdphilosophy

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2025-12-20

Grabación de la conferencia pública anual de la profesora Alice Crary en la Facultad de Filosofía de la UCD/Real Instituto de Filosofía: «Si no te indigna la IA, no estás prestando atención: La filosofía en la era del tecnofascismo». #PhilSky #PhilAI #AIEthics youtu.be/Z3s7yRJ_CEo?...

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Alice Crary, Royal Institute o...

Dr Keith Wilson 💭keithwilson.eu@bsky.brid.gy
2025-12-20

All current #AI is just automated pattern recognition and/or automated pattern (including text and image) generation. Framing it as ‘chat’ with an intelligent entity is fundamentally deceptive IMO. #AIEthics #PhilAI

2025-12-16

Recording of Professor Alice Crary’s UCD School of Philosophy/Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Public Lecture: ‘If you’re not outraged about AI, you’re not paying attention: Philosophy in the time of techno-fascism’. #PhilSky #PhilAI #AIEthics youtu.be/Z3s7yRJ_CEo?...

Alice Crary, Royal Institute o...

Well deserved @melaniemitchell.bsky.social ! Being old, I vividly remember how much I learned about cellular automata and genetic algorithms from various explainers from Melanie. I assign the AI book to my #philAI students. www.santafe.edu/news-center/...

Melanie Mitchell receives awar...

Dimitri Coelho Mollodcm@social.sunet.se
2025-10-13

Upcoming online-also talk on chatbots this Friday!

Who: Merel Semeijn (Groningen)
What: *Botspeech? Bullshit!* -- on mental fictionalism applied to LLMs and 'uncaring users'
When: Friday, Oct 17th, 12.15-13.00 CEST
Where: Online and on-campus at Umeå University, as part of our AI centre's talk series

Abstract here: umu.se/en/events/fraiday-botsp

To register and receive the Zoom link, go here: umu.se/en/research/our-researc

All welcome!

#philAI #chatbots #llm

One of the challenges I had teaching #philAI was being fair to the Chinese Room thought experiment. Wasn’t my favorite topic, I can tell you that, but at least I could utter the incantation “intentionality is the hallmark of the mental“ and get to feel profound.

A student wants to do a project on this topic. I haven't seen this before. Anyone knows if this is legit? Is it worth her time? #philAI medium.com/intuitionmac...

The Quaternion Process Theory ...

Dimitri Coelho Mollodcm@social.sunet.se
2025-06-29

Some good venting by Steve Klabnik about the sorry state of significant chunks of the AI debate today:

"What is breaking my brain a little bit is that all of the discussion online around AI is so incredibly polarized. This isn’t a “the middle is always right” sort of thing either, to be clear. It’s more that both the pro-AI and anti-AI sides are loudly proclaiming things that are pretty trivially verifiable as not true."

steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am-

#ai #philAI

Dimitri Coelho Mollodcm@social.sunet.se
2025-06-10

A new, updated, streamlined, and generally improved version of The Vector Grounding Problem paper, joint work by @raphaelmilliere and me on the meaningfulness or else of LLM outputs and internal representations is now available on ArXiv.

arxiv.org/abs/2304.01481

New abstract in the thread below.

#philAI #LLMs #SymbolGrounding

Tomorrow in #philAI - @cameronbuckner.bsky.social on convolutional neural networks and empiricism. Students already deep into Locke and Hume if the course online forum is any indication.

Dimitri Coelho Mollodcm@social.sunet.se
2025-05-15

An updated and improved version of the paper briefly summarised in the thread above has now been published open access on Theoria:

doi.org/10.1387/theoria.25837

Link to the thread: social.sunet.se/@dcm/111772379

#philAI #philsci #ai

I love it that these episodes drop just as I am on my way to teach #philAI. Gets me in the mood. I even mentioned giraffes last week, but alas no one got the reference.

Tomorrow in #philAI: innateness, featuring the @garymarcus.bsky.social vs. @yann-lecun.bsky.social traveling circus. (And the AlphaZero critique.)

Dr Keith Wilson 💭keithwilson.eu@bsky.brid.gy
2025-05-08

I’m curious who has made this argument in print. It’s effectively a claim that a simulation of #consciousness would lack the relevant causal profile. But what is the causal profile of consciousness that a functionally equivalent simulation (appropriately hooked up to the world) would lack? #PhilAI

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Today in #philAI : Fodor and Pylyshyn (1988), “Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture.” A paper that didn’t age well. Or did it?

Current internal dialogue: should I include plummeting gannets when discussing ecological psychology in #philAI today?

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