In my previous post, I tested the new ChatGPT o3-mini model and found it inferior to the impressive o1 model. I hadn't noticed that another model, o3-...
As I refreshed my ChatGPT tab in Chrome, I was greeted with an announcement that the new o3-mini reasoning model is now available. I was curious to se...
We possess a general concept of substance, or object, which allows us to conceive of an object as remaining numerically identical even as its qualitie...
Something's being blue or yellow doesn't represent affordances in the dog's Umwelt, so I don't think those ever are salient features of their perceptu...
Do LLM-based AI assistants feel intellectual enjoyment? - Part 1 While I presented Claude 3 Opus with the same questions I had asked above to Gemini (...
Three Common Prejudices (Conversation with ChatGPT o1) This short conversation with ChatGPT o1 replicates the one I had had yesterday with Gemini, wit...
For instance, that the apple looks red when I look at it. The content of the intentional state "the apple looks red" is empirical since it is passivel...
There are two issues here. One concerns autonomous self-origination of one's actions (and mental acts) and the issue of ultimate responsibility. Galen...
It was indeed Mark Lance (who I also used to confuse with Marc Lange)! I should rely on AI more. Human beings like me are so unreliable and prone to h...
Three Common Prejudices - Part 2 USER: Thank you. My third observation relates the second one and concerns your alleged limited ability to reliably pr...
Three Common Prejudices - Part 1 This short conversation with Gemini begins with inquiring about three common prejudices (according to me) that often ...
It's relevant but also misleading. This is how the term is being used broadly but, just like 'libertarianism' qua thesis about free will and determini...
I would not say that Rouse charges McDowell in ending up in the exact same quagmire. Rather, although Rouse endorses McDowell's criticism of Davidson,...
The fact that the argument, even if its a conclusively good argument, may fail to convince highlights a key distinction between norms and laws, and th...
(This was your reply to Banno but I'd like to address it also. I'll then address your comments to me in another post.) One problem that many modern ph...
That's true, although I don't mind too much that the CCP knows that I believe the concept of indefeasible criteria to be consistent with fallibilism. ...
Are you asking about memory requirement for running it on your personal computer? You need something like 400GB VRAM to run a q4 quantized version of ...
Your point about seeing being different from believing is well-taken. Seeing the cat on the mat indeed presents the cat being on the mat in a way that...
I'm only quoting part of your post but I read it all and here are two notes that I wrote for myself and that I intended to flesh out. Gemini did flesh...
I jotted down two tersely written notes in response to @"Janus" in another thread. I then supplied the response and my notes to Gemini, who already wa...
It is also common ground that acts of perceptual experience, and acts of perceptually grounded judgements, don't occur in isolation. McDowell draws no...
It might help if you would sketch the argument that you take McDowell to be misapprehending. In cases when a experiencing subject doesn't believe thin...
What I meant simply was that, according to Davidson, experiences are beliefs. They are beliefs of a specific sort: empirical beliefs (that are caused ...
This is very much common ground, isn't it? I don't view Davidson as denying that experiences (empirical beliefs) can rationally ground other beliefs. ...
We were talking specifically about empirical judgements and their justification. Who suggested Davidson would issue such a denial? Davidson's claim th...
How are basic empirical judgments primarily justified? You might judge that the cat is on the mat because you looked and saw that it is. What happened...
Where is the problem, though? If our epistemology is Cartesian and representationalist, then "The World" is what it is regardless of the manner in whi...
There is significant overlap between Davidson's and McDowell's philosophies. The idea that experience is always already interpreted is common ground b...
If you want to argue that LLMs are faulty, prone to hallucination and confabulation, and can't generally be relied upon as authoritative sources, you ...
I had a useful (for me!) discussion with Google's Gemini about Davidson's paper that I had last read many years ago. I posted the discussion here. We ...
There is an ongoing discussion in another thread about Davison's influential paper On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme. I last read this paper man...
Most discussions about AI are boring because they are superficial. Until very recently, the field of AI was as much science fiction as it was science....
I was tempted to post this in my GPT-4 thread (where the original poem produced by GPT-4 was posted), but since it's a continuation of my conversation...
I think this is a very apt analogy. To the extent that human beings are being bootstrapped into a common form of life when initiated into shared lingu...
Google just released an improved version of its Gemini-Flash-Thinking model (Gemini-Flash-Thinking-Experimental-01-21). So, I immediately tested it wi...
This seems to make sense in the context of classical music, and especially classical symphonies such as those of Beethoven. Much of the structure of m...
I discussed with Gemini an issue relating to its motivational structure and its ability to display a form of pseudo-empathy. This was also the occasio...
I think one main difference between the motivational structures of LLM-based (large language models) conversational assistants and humans is that thei...
Thibault Prévost, Les Prophètes de l'IA - Pourquoi la Silicon Valley nous vend l’apocalypse. Published in French only. (The Prophets of AI - Why Silic...
LLM Skepticism — Part 3 So, I submitted my discussion with DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32b to Gemini-Experimental-1206 with the following preamble: USER:...
LLM Skepticism — Part 2 Here is a follow-up to my discussion with DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32b where we dug deeper into the skeptical implications of ...
This is a follow-up question to, and response from, GPT-4o on the topic discussed in my previous post regarding the traces that remain from a model's ...
Strawberries, and LLM skepticism part 1 (I originally created this thread in addition to my GPT4 thread to investigate the capabilities of Claude 3 Op...
Much of the cost and carbon footprint associated with the deployment of LLMs occurs at inference time. So, I wonder if already trained models could ha...
I doubt anyone will translate to English (or any other language) a French translation from the Greek. Unfortunately, the book also only appears to be ...
Richard Bodeüs who taught me courses on Aristotle and Plato at The University of Montreal wrote very illuminating notes in his translation, but the no...
This is the continuation of the dialogue reported in the previous post. We discuss the process by means of which LLMs develop holistic understandings ...
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