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Rationalism and social rationalism

As with all my blog posts, these are only very preliminary thoughts. I worry perhaps their scope gives them a sense of self-seriousness I don’t intend. This piece is about floating ideas that might be worth discussing, rather than strong claims to truth. Cate Hall tweeted: “In 2017 I was...

Mar 10, 202317

Republishing an old essay in light of current news on Bing's AI: "Regarding Blake Lemoine's claim that LaMDA is 'sentient', he might be right (sorta), but perhaps not for the reasons he thinks"

I am republishing this essay because of recent discussions about erratic, ‘emotional’ and aggressive behavior by Bing’s AI, Sydney. There has been some discussion about whether it’s ethical to run Sydney given that behavior. People are responding to such claims with “don’t be ridiculous, of course Sydney doesn’t feel anything,...

Feb 17, 20233

ChatGPT understands language

Cross-posting this from my blog, since it seems relevant. The case for GPT understanding language, by way of understanding the world There's a debate going on about whether or not language models similar to ChatGPT have the potential to be scaled up to something truly transformative. There's a group of...

Jan 27, 202327

The AI Control Problem in a wider intellectual context

I’ve been thinking about the control problem lately. The control problem, also called the AI alignment problem is, per Wikipedia: [A]spects of how to build AI systems such that they will aid rather than harm their creators. One particular concern is that humanity will have to solve the control problem...

Jan 13, 202311

Verbal parity: What is it and how to measure it? + an edited version of "Against John Searle, Gary Marcus, the Chinese Room thought experiment and its world"

I've written previously about an idea I call verbal parity, viz: A machine has verbal parity when, if given input in written form, it can give an appropriate output in written form as a response, as well as a human, for any input. Now this definition has many problems. For...

Dec 31, 20222

Language models are nearly AGIs but we don't notice it because we keep shifting the bar

I’m putting my existing work on AI on Less Wrong, and editing as I go, in preparation to publishing a collection of my works on AI in a free online volume. If this content interests you, you could always follow my Substack, it's free and also under the name Philosophy...

Dec 30, 2022105

Against John Searle, Gary Marcus, the Chinese Room thought experiment and its world

Preface: I’m putting my existing work on AI on Less Wrong, and editing as I go, in preparation to publishing a collection of my works on AI in a free online volume. If this content interests you, you could always follow my Substack, it's free and also under the name...

Dec 29, 202221

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Language models are nearly AGIs but we don't notice it because we keep shifting the bar

ChatGPT understands language

Against John Searle, Gary Marcus, the Chinese Room thought experiment and its world

Rationalism and social rationalism

philosophybear

Language models are nearly AGIs but we don't notice it because we keep shifting the bar

ChatGPT understands language

Against John Searle, Gary Marcus, the Chinese Room thought experiment and its world

Rationalism and social rationalism

Rationalism and social rationalism

Republishing an old essay in light of current news on Bing's AI: "Regarding Blake Lemoine's claim that LaMDA is 'sentient', he might be right (sorta), but perhaps not for the reasons he thinks"

ChatGPT understands language

The AI Control Problem in a wider intellectual context

Verbal parity: What is it and how to measure it? + an edited version of "Against John Searle, Gary Marcus, the Chinese Room thought experiment and its world"

Language models are nearly AGIs but we don't notice it because we keep shifting the bar

Against John Searle, Gary Marcus, the Chinese Room thought experiment and its world