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
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»
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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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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?...
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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/...
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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: https://www.umu.se/en/events/fraiday-botspeech-bullshit_12146113/
To register and receive the Zoom link, go here: https://www.umu.se/en/research/our-research/features-and-news/artificial-intelligence/fraiday/
All welcome!
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...
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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."
https://steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am-disappointed-in-the-ai-discourse/
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.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01481
New abstract in the thread below.
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.
An updated and improved version of the paper briefly summarised in the thread above has now been published open access on Theoria:
https://doi.org/10.1387/theoria.25837
Link to the thread: https://social.sunet.se/@dcm/111772379106183358
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.)
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?
