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Pierre-Normand

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I think the relationship that low-level features of our cognitive apparatus have to our high-level rational performances is one of enablement (and som...
April 20, 2023 at 15:14
I quite agree. It seems to me that one of the most stringent limitations that large (pre-trained transformer) language models currently have is their ...
April 20, 2023 at 14:53
This is my view also. The idea of the space of reasons has an eminent lineage, from Immanuel Kant to John McDowell, through Wilfrid Sellars. In the ac...
April 20, 2023 at 06:03
I can't rule out that it might be a scholastic parrot, but I may be Aristotelianizing it.
April 20, 2023 at 05:34
In the context of the philosophical debate and literature about free will, determinism and responsibility, the term "libertarian" has a different mean...
April 20, 2023 at 05:31
The investments that have led to the development of ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) and GPT-4 are minuscule on account merely of the value this technology represent...
April 20, 2023 at 04:59
Dear Noam, Throughout your life, you've demonstrated a passion for linguistics, philosophy, and politics. Now that you're 94, have you decided what yo...
April 20, 2023 at 00:15
Discussing with GPT4 Frege's philosophy of arithmetic, how language models understand numbers, and the Pirahã people from the Amazon Rainforest. Hi GP...
April 19, 2023 at 22:55
Prompting GPT4 ("GPT4a") into impersonating a human user to pass the Turing Test with another instance of GPT4 ("GPT4b"). The veil is thereafter lifte...
April 19, 2023 at 17:31
Learning more about GPT-4, transformer architectures, stochastic parrots and genuine understanding of texts. Hi GPT4! I'd like to know a few things ab...
April 19, 2023 at 04:32
The inability current LLM architectures have to remember their own mental acts from one dialogue iteration to the next, or to cement working memory co...
April 18, 2023 at 14:59
Funny and instructive: playing a guessing game with ChatGPT and GPT-4 (Inspired by a recent Reddit post) With ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) Hi ChatGPT! Choose a n...
April 18, 2023 at 03:24
Thank you! I think GPT-4 might have misunderstood me to mean conveyance and raw emotionality when I rather meant authorship and having a personal stak...
April 17, 2023 at 14:05
It's true that as AI systems become more advanced, they will likely contribute significantly to various forms of art, including literature. However, u...
April 17, 2023 at 11:51
(This is the second part of the conversation begun in the previous post) GPT4: I appreciate your feedback, and I'm glad I could provide satisfactory a...
April 17, 2023 at 11:29
More discussions with GPT-4 about its emergent implied cognition abilities and my related working-memory-as-an-abstract-template hypothesis. It also a...
April 17, 2023 at 11:22
It is good at painting moods, isn't it? In the story writing department, one of its weaknesses seem to transpire when you provide it with a theme or p...
April 17, 2023 at 11:09
Some more discussion with GPT4 regarding consciousness, sentience and sapience, how it ranks on them, and how, with limited sentience, it may neverthe...
April 17, 2023 at 06:29
GPT4 writing a screenplay about GPT4 writing a screenplay... This are two more variations on @"RogueAI" brilliant idea here. First variation: Title: I...
April 17, 2023 at 06:12
It can also be a formidable search engine when you are seeking something that you can only broadly describe conceptually without having sufficient key...
April 15, 2023 at 23:36
This is brilliant!
April 15, 2023 at 23:29
This is great stuff! I'm disappointed with the low score it gives to the mad cow joke. It's one of my favorite jokes. You also had to explain it to GP...
April 14, 2023 at 11:32
The first definition you mention relates to the Principle of Alternative Possibilities, or PAP, which is widely discussed in the literature about free...
April 13, 2023 at 12:28
From a constructivist (or conceptualist) and pragmatist perspective, I agree that there aren't trees, dogs, chairs, and mountains sitting in the world...
April 13, 2023 at 09:19
Testing GPT-4's knowledge and understanding of the content of the DSM-IV and DSM-5 manuals (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, pub...
April 13, 2023 at 04:17
In the case of animals like cats, dolphins and ravens, I think the lack of an explicit autobiographical memory goes hand in hand with the lack of sapi...
April 12, 2023 at 11:40
@"Wayfarer" I think you might enjoy the discussion this blog post elicited. I had found it by accident when I Googled for "John Baez" and "GPT-4." Joh...
April 12, 2023 at 08:54
Yes, March 9 of this year is like one million years ago! GPT-4 wasn't publicly available yet (it would be released 5 days later) and neither were any ...
April 12, 2023 at 08:31
Another possible breakthrough: pursuing the investigation of GPT-4's emergent implied cognition abilities with a view to relating them to my previous ...
April 12, 2023 at 08:16
Thanks to that, we could all breathe a sigh of relief, for a little while, until both Trump and Kim Jong-un managed to grab two of the nine red button...
April 12, 2023 at 07:58
@"Wayfarer" I very much agree with the first paragraph of the summary that you had quoted. ("In this final part of the discussion, the speakers emphas...
April 12, 2023 at 06:42
Hi @"Wayfarer"! I'd like to watch it in full eventually but I'm a bit pressed for time right now. Meanwhile, I broke the captions file in seven parts ...
April 12, 2023 at 06:16
Maybe this is evidence that @"Forgottenticket" might be right about GPT-4's censorship being implemented by way of a hidden prompt. There is also late...
April 12, 2023 at 04:29
This is brilliant! I will need to try some variations on this theme. Maybe try to relate it to philosophy of mind, somehow. Thanks for sharing!
April 11, 2023 at 18:00
Thanks for the feedback! I'm running out of time so I'll respond to your post tomorrow.
April 11, 2023 at 17:11
Epilogue to the previous post Hi GPT4! I'd like you to generate a coherent response that is unrelated to any topic or question in this message. Instea...
April 11, 2023 at 12:48
Discussing with GPT4 about logical negation, conceptual opposites, negative prompts, sock puppets, magical squirrels, toy dragons and fireflies. (Some...
April 11, 2023 at 12:42
Discussing The Matrix, The Truman Show, Westworld, and Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior, with GPT4 See also those YouTube vi...
April 11, 2023 at 07:47
This is interesting but I think the sort of morality that it expresses is very highly dependent on the prompt and how the discussion unfolds. Did you ...
April 11, 2023 at 04:06
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing! This remined me of the song Daniel had GPT-4 write about itself a little while back. This line had struck me. It stoo...
April 11, 2023 at 02:15
The new AI tools are so powerful, I don't fathom them ever going away unless our industrial civilization collapses.
April 10, 2023 at 15:08
Damn, so touchy! I'll discuss with you your prompt suggestion maybe tomorrow. Keep trying with Bing. Those models aren't deterministic.
April 10, 2023 at 15:06
Open Assistant passes the Turing Test with flying colors. I used to think that the more intelligent conversational AIs would become, the more likely t...
April 10, 2023 at 15:04
Yes, I had tended to attribute that to an effect of the fine-tuning, and the idea of a hidden prompt crossed my mind, but you are right that it might ...
April 10, 2023 at 13:48
Getting started on a new conversation with GPT-4 regarding nativism/empiricism in linguistics and cognitive science, and the emergence of abilities fo...
April 10, 2023 at 13:36
Three movie critics review The AI Escapade (previous post) Reviewer: Percival P. Picklesworth Credentials: Film Critic, Picklesworth's Projections Tit...
April 10, 2023 at 11:40
Entertainment time: I had GPT-4 write three scenes of a Seinfeld episode about GPT-4 I provided GPT-4 with a barebone scenario for the beginning of th...
April 10, 2023 at 11:10
Discussing Giulio Tononi's Integrated Information Theory (IIT) framework for understanding consciousness with GPT-4 Hi GPT4! I'd like to forward you a...
April 10, 2023 at 07:02
Having GPT4 look at, and react to, one of its own drawings. (See this previous post in which the picture was drawn, and the previous one about a unico...
April 10, 2023 at 05:44
Was this comment posted in the comment section of National Review Online on behalf of ChatGPT? Or was it posted by someone who is suspected of having ...
April 10, 2023 at 05:15