Can ChatGPT reason? What the heck does that even mean?!

Ted Chiang's pieces tend to cause a stir whenever they come out, mostly because he is such a fantastic writer and thinker. But the pieces...

The recent wave of cases concerning generative AI, such as Silverman v OpenAI, have not gone well. From a legal perspective, this isn't...

There is an increasing anxiety about underpopulation, one that mirrors the anxiety about overpopulation in decades past. But debates...

The Psychology of Misinformation, by Roozenbeek and van der Linden, is an excellent book. Short, balanced, readable. The authors are also...

Philosophy has something called the "symbol grounding" problem. The basic question is whether the words and sentences of language need to...

Every once in awhile, someone reinvents a wheel. This is especially common in academia, since there is just so many papers in so many...

In Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem, it is discovered that an alien civilization is on its way to Earth, intent on conquering the...

Tourists on a guided program in Europe often come up with a simple complaint about the area, summed up as ABC: Another Bloody Church....

If there has been a constant trope since GPT-2 it is that large language models (LLM) will soon flood the internet with misinformation....

The current proliferation of Twitter-wannabes--and their failure--suggests people learned the wrong lessons from the rise of first-gen...

Jake Quilty-Dunn, Nicolas Porot, and Eric Mandelbaum recently published a robust defense of the Language of Thought Hypothesis (LoTH)....

A strange response to integrated information theory (IIT) being labeled a pseudoscience is the claim that "scientists only know Karl...

Now that the dust has settled and the hype has died down (except on Twitter), we can give a verdict: generative AI is boring. We already...

After "the letter" arguing Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is a pseudoscience, many people responded by condemning the letter writers...

Manifestos are silly things by nature. A glance at the manifestos of the 20th century reminds us that you need to have an immense ego to...

The impressive success of current "Foundation" or "Frontier" models, such as GPT-4 and Bard, has led some to claim that we are on our way...

There's an old story (possibly apocryphal) about a scholar who went to a university and presented a paper on telepathy. The study had...

There is a story that goes, "in the 20th century, you couldn't talk about consciousness. Before Edelman, Crick, and Koch, it was a bad...

Many people at the moment are excitedly declaring that large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT and Bard, are "alien intelligences."...