I was pondering over the ability of large language models to memorise whole books word-for-word. I came up with an explanation and then asked GPT-4o (...
This is very neat indeed! I made another attempt at discussing the same issues regarding free-will, determinism and responsibility (reported above) us...
OpenAI released their new GPT-4o model today. ('o' stands for 'omni'). It is now available for free to users who don't have a paid subscription to Cha...
Probably. The second phase of the training of a large language model is the RLHF (reinforcement learning from human feedback) phase. Through this trai...
It doesn't seem to me like current conversational AI assistants mimic this human tendency at all. They rather seem to be open minded to a fault. They ...
Is that GPT-3.5 or GPT-4? It's doing its best to interpret charitably and combine my explanation (that you appear to have included in your prompt) and...
It's not a summarising algorithm, though. It doesn't even function as an algorithm. It rather functions as a neural network. Although there is an unde...
The way I read its response, it didn't even attempt to provide, or even gesture towards, any kind of a synthesis. It merely provided a useful survey o...
It prefaced its listing of the various aspects and theories with the mention that they are a matter of debate and concludes that "ifferent theories an...
GPT-4 and some other chatbots can access the internet using external tools, but the fundamental process of generating responses is a bit different fro...
It isn't quoting anyone in particular. If you make it regenerate its response several times, it will produce different answers worded differently albe...
GPT-4 is somewhat better than GPT-3.5 are retrieving or reconstructing information from its training data. When it comes to reasoning, explaining, ela...
When you frame your query in this way, it tends to provide an summary overview of the mainstream positions on the topic, in an unopinionated fashion. ...
In the previous post, I reported a conversation that I had started with Llama-3-70b (installed locally on my computer) before switching to Claude 3 Op...
It's a big one. But I'll have a look at it for sure! Bye the way, my outlook owes much to John Haugeland, Hubert Dreyfus and Maurice Merleau-Ponty who...
Here is an illuminating example Marvin Minsky proposed a couple decades ago. I'll expand on it a little. Suppose you are looking at a tree with thousa...
The same analysis applies to shape as to color. Our perception of an object's shape, such as an apple being graspable in a particular way, involves br...
All our perceptual experiences involve bringing our conceptual abilities, past experiences, and sensorimotor skills to bear on them. The latter two al...
I'd like to raise two distinct but related issues here: First, regarding representation, it's important to distinguish between external representation...
When I was a graduate student in philosophy, I read a few very fun papers by Achille Varzi on the ontology of holes (and a very short and goofy one on...
Yes, this is fun! You might also enjoy most books by Andy Clark written between 1997 and 2016 as well as Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Sh...
When I submit a philosophical idea to GPT4 and it says that my idea is "intriguing" (as opposed to "insightful") this is generally its polite way of s...
The approaches that appear to me to be the most sensible are the Wittgensteinian quietism defended by Peter Hacker and the phenomenological approach o...
This is the essence of Dennett's multiple draft model of consciousness. I still think his critique of the pseudo-distinction between Orwellian account...
Thanks for reminding me of this work. I had added it to my digital library a few years ago. I think it's a fantastic work even though I disagree with ...
No, I don't think that's accurate. Dennett, like his teacher Gilbert Ryle before him, would deny that our beliefs, intentions, and the reasons why we ...
This characterises fairly well Dennett's thinking when he is in his more eliminativist mood about mental states. I had read Darwin's Dangerous Idea on...
Agreed. Perception also is an activity that is goal oriented and hence has a normative dimension. Things in the world are perceived by us when our per...
While many elements of our perceptual capacities are indeed actualized without conscious attention or at a sub-personal level, this doesn't undermine ...
Not in the distal world; in the world. Likewise, the action of kicking the soccer ball doesn't take place in the distal soccer field. It takes place o...
Yes, the adage comes from Putnam and also referred to cutting pies. Susan Hurley also distinguished content externalism from quality externalism. From...
That's right. The phenomenal character of experience is something that is constructed and not merely received. The perceiving agent must for instance ...
And then, of course, there are direct realists who view experience/perception as the actualization of a capacity that persons (or animals) have to gra...
(Follow up to the previous post) USER: Thank you for this analysis! The reason why the considerations that I raised with Llama 3 don't lead me to endo...
I submitted my discussion with Llama-3-8b reported in the previous post to GPT-4 and to several Claude models. Claude 3 Opus and Claude 2.0 provided t...
Here is another discussion I have had with Llama-3-8b-instruct about the problem of free-will, determinism and responsibility. Here also, the very sma...
Is is short follow-up to the previous conversation. After increasing the value of the setting for the amount of tokens to generate, "Luna" indeed has ...
I've now repeated the experiment reported in my previous post with Llama-3-8b-instruct. I've used a 5-bit quantization and loaded it in Koboldcpp on m...
Here is my first somewhat extended conversation with Llama 3 70b. It is quite impressive for an open source model that can be run on a personal comput...
When we imagine a person with locked-in syndrome feeling pain we imagine a person wishing a feeling (or its causal source) to go away. Them being lock...
In the case where burning the nerve endings in your fingers stimulates the pleasure centres in your brain, what you feel is pleasure. You are not feel...
Both of those seem to be especially amenable to an adverbial treatment. We do smell cakes but do we smell the smell of cakes? Do we smell smells? Pain...
:up: My father is 91 and suffers from macular degeneration but is otherwise in good health. He also lives alone and autonomously in a senior home. He ...
Earlier, I've followed Jeff Speaks in characterising Evans, Wiggins and McDowell's accounts as forms of non-descriptive Fregeanism. Although Speaks sp...
Making It Explicit spells out his inferentialist account in great details. It was one of the first serious philosophy book that I read some 24 years a...
That's untypical, and can be put down to the fact that it had too little and too much to go by. It had too little to go by because it was lacking the ...
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