Pierre-Normand

I was surprised to hear about the process of synchronous gradient sharing that Geoff Hinton describes in the talk @"frank" linked to in another AI thr...

That may be your point now, but you had also claimed that "ne might say that the ultimate goal is survival and every other goal is a subgoal. Our live...

Dawkins also popularised the idea that "memes" (a term that he coined) tend to propagate in proportion to their fitness. Ideas being useful no doubt e...

Thank you! I will watch the video that you posted in the OP in full before commenting further, which is what I should have done to begin with.

Evolutionary explanations of the origin the general traits and intellectual abilities of human beings contribute to explaining why those traits and ab...

In the short dialogue below, I used GPT4o to do a bit a brainstorming regarding the reasons why practical rationality, and ethical systems, can't prov...

When I perform a Google search with that phrase, I only get three hits in total, one being from this forum and the other two from the medium.com websi...

The newer model made accessible on X (Twitter) is Grok-2 and it was released on August 20th 2024. Its knowledge cut-off date has to be earlier than th...

I am by no means an expert but here are a few remarks. Grok, like all LLM based AI conversational assistants, has a very limited insight into its own ...

I was querying GPT4o on the public availability of the training data used to train some open source models. The question of copyrighted materials aros...

This indeed looks like the sort of genocentric perspective Pinker would favor. Like E. O. Wilson and Richard Dawkins, he seems to believe that genes h...

I am broadly agreeing with your OP. You characterise people's experiences in an essentially relational manner — in relation to what it is (in the worl...

Even in the case of human beings, specific goals and emotions can be mimicked and the performances still stop short from constituting the real deal. T...

Oh, I see you also found it!

You may be thinking of the discussions surrounding this post, or this one.

LLMs making use of latent cognitive abilities to perform alphabetical sorting tasks, part 2 In my previous post, I reported on my having been impresse...

LLMs making use of latent cognitive abilities to perform alphabetical sorting tasks, part 1 Here is another quick experiment aimed at probing the late...

I usually understand sentences to be linguistic devices that are being used to express propositions. In Fregean terms, a proposition is the sense of a...

Recently, I submitted for discussion a philosophical topic to QwQ (Qwen with Questions), a new open weights 32-billion parameters model developed by t...

The newer version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet (officially dubbed Claude-3-Sonnet-20241022, after its release date) received a small bump in general intellige...

I would be a bit devious for a TPF user to pass such text as their own on the ground that it may be construed to fall under the header "Google search ...

It was circa 10,000 B.C. 1964 was the T.V adaptation.

Yes, I was using "philosophy" and "philosophers" rather interchangeably. I was rather highlighting the contrast between philosophy being in need of th...

I had interpreted Wittgenstein's claim about philosophy and therapy (there may be more than one?) not so much as a claim that philosophers are in need...

Yay! We passed the Turing test!

Anyone still reading Kimhi might find this erratum useful.

Grasps but doesn't hold.

QBism is closely related to Rovelli's relational interpretation of QM. While Rovelli stresses some differences between both approaches, Bitbol also ha...

Well, I did single out as a distinguishing feature of them that they don't stake grounds. Regarding the issue of attributing to them cognitive states ...

It does. Caveat emptor. LLMs, in virtue of the second stage of their training (using reinforcement learning from human feedback) aim at being useful a...

As a child and teen, lacking any talent for foreign languages, I was completely unable to learn English in spite of its being taught to me every singl...

I occasionally use it to troubleshoot technical issues. I've also used it (GPT-4) to write new functionalities for Oobabooga — a web user graphical in...

The idea is that for a command to be obeyed, the person to whom the command is addressed must see to it (by their actions) that the truth conditions o...

Google developed the Gemini family of LLMs. The pizza-glue episode is infamous. I couldn't find out on my own if Gemini still was integrated in the Go...

I'm just back from a walk and I was pondering about the limitations of the category "tool" for describing LLMs. One may ask: are crutches tools? Certa...

The new guidelines, as they are currently written, still seem to me to enable moderators to take action if the use of AI tools are being abused withou...

(@"fdrake" I was in the process of writing my response to Jamal when you tagged me) In my two AI threads I've posted quite a few discussions that I ha...

For Austin, assertions are one specific kind of illocutionary acts. When one utters the the sentence "p" with assertoric force, they thereby also perf...

I had written a response to you that I then feared might not quite do justice to Quine's thesis of the indeterminacy of translation. I rephrased my re...

I think you will find fascinating Claude 3 Opus's unexpected reaction to our previous exchange. Full disclosure: my personal version of Claude 3 Opus ...

Yes, the idea of AI autonomy might be an oxymoron. When I had orchestrated an encounter between GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus and let them discuss freely, a...

LLM-based conversational AI assistants certainly are fickle in their attitudes. But if what matters to them (because they have been trained to accompl...

There is an interesting quote by Quine in David Wiggins's paper Sentence Meaning, Negation, and Plato's Problem of Non-Being: "It is often felt that t...

This Aristotle bloke is in good company ;-)

I don't think it's transparent at all (although I might have thought that it was fairly unproblematic prior to getting engaged in this thread). One is...

I can't quite figure out if you want to claim that the notion of assertoric force is so obscure and muddled that we ought to entirely dispense with it...

It's hard to assess how malevolent and beneficial uses balance out when considered from the point of view of what we can do with it individually and h...

It's indeed annoying that under capitalism gains of productivity brought about by technological advances tend to be siphoned out by the owners of capi...

I quite appreciate your examples. In The Varieties of Reference, Gareth Evans discusses the case where someone who overhears other people talking abou...

I am committing myself to this claim in the cases where unproblematic demonstrative references can be made to ordinary objects and identifying illusor...