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."...

It is often hard to figure out what, if anything, is at stake in these discussions of innateness. All the nativists are big on learning...

There is an increasing surge of articles demanding people stop worrying about AI doom and focus on real-world, present day harms (e.g.,...

The central puzzle of the current AI doomsayers is how their apocalyptic predictions are often compatible with designing, building, and...

(Expanded Remarks for NYU Debate on whether AI language models can understand the world based entirely on text] 1. Introduction I...