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I have been away from Mastodon for a while, not finding the time to be active here.
In any case here goes the final version of a paper on content and meaning in LLMs, co-authored with @raphaelmilliere. It lived a long preprint life, but is now published in an outstanding special issue of the journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences.
The Vector Grounding Problem - https://philosophymindscience.org/index.php/phimisci/article/view/12307
The whole issue is worth checking out!
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Recording of Professor Alice Crary’s UCD School of Philosophy/Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Public Lecture: ‘If you’re not outraged about AI, you’re not paying attention Philosophy in the time of techno-fascism’ #PhilSky #PhilAI #AIEthics
Conferencia pública anual de la profesora Alice Crary en la Facultad de Filosofía de UCD/Real Instituto de Filosofía: «Si no te indigna la IA, no estás prestando atención: La filosofía en la era del tecnofascismo»
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Grabación de la conferencia pública anual de la profesora Alice Crary en la Facultad de Filosofía de la UCD/Real Instituto de Filosofía: «Si no te indigna la IA, no estás prestando atención: La filosofía en la era del tecnofascismo». #PhilSky #PhilAI #AIEthics youtu.be/Z3s7yRJ_CEo?...
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Recording of Professor Alice Crary’s UCD School of Philosophy/Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Public Lecture: ‘If you’re not outraged about AI, you’re not paying attention: Philosophy in the time of techno-fascism’. #PhilSky #PhilAI #AIEthics youtu.be/Z3s7yRJ_CEo?...
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Upcoming online-also talk on chatbots this Friday!
Who: Merel Semeijn (Groningen)
What: *Botspeech? Bullshit!* -- on mental fictionalism applied to LLMs and 'uncaring users'
When: Friday, Oct 17th, 12.15-13.00 CEST
Where: Online and on-campus at Umeå University, as part of our AI centre's talk seriesAbstract here: https://www.umu.se/en/events/fraiday-botspeech-bullshit_12146113/
To register and receive the Zoom link, go here: https://www.umu.se/en/research/our-research/features-and-news/artificial-intelligence/fraiday/
All welcome!
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Some good venting by Steve Klabnik about the sorry state of significant chunks of the AI debate today:
"What is breaking my brain a little bit is that all of the discussion online around AI is so incredibly polarized. This isn’t a “the middle is always right” sort of thing either, to be clear. It’s more that both the pro-AI and anti-AI sides are loudly proclaiming things that are pretty trivially verifiable as not true."
https://steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am-disappointed-in-the-ai-discourse/
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A new, updated, streamlined, and generally improved version of The Vector Grounding Problem paper, joint work by @raphaelmilliere and me on the meaningfulness or else of LLM outputs and internal representations is now available on ArXiv.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01481
New abstract in the thread below.
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An updated and improved version of the paper briefly summarised in the thread above has now been published open access on Theoria:
https://doi.org/10.1387/theoria.25837
Link to the thread: https://social.sunet.se/@dcm/111772379106183358
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I’m curious who has made this argument in print. It’s effectively a claim that a simulation of #consciousness would lack the relevant causal profile. But what is the causal profile of consciousness that a functionally equivalent simulation (appropriately hooked up to the world) would lack? #PhilAI
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Call for postdoc applications!
We are looking for a 1-year postdoc to work on Philosophy of AI here in lovely Umeå.
Deadline for applications is May 26th.
More information about the fellowship and how to apply can be found here: https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/postdoctoral-scholarships/postdoctoral-scholarship-1-year-in-philosophy-of-ai_819398/
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OpenAI’s so-called “reasoning” models generate more falsehoods than their predecessors. Since #LLMs are model language usage and not factual information, it’s built-into their design that they will output false or misleading information. #PhilAI techcrunch.com/2025/04/18/o...
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Admissions are open for the second cohort of the Bachelor's in Philosophy and AI at Umeå University! (Only for EU/EEA/Swiss citizens)
A considerable part of the programme is in English, but several courses are in Swedish, so proficiency in a Scandinavian language is required.
More information about the programme here: https://www.umu.se/utbildning/program/kandidatprogram-i-filosofi-och-artificiell-intelligens/
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Great analysis of Othello-GPT and the search for 'world models' in LLMs by M. Mitchell:
https://aiguide.substack.com/p/llms-and-world-models-part-2
>...I think it’s likely that humans don’t have the same capacity as today’s LLMs to learn enormous numbers of specific rules... it’s actually our human limitations—constraints on working memory, on processing speed, on available energy—as well as our continually changing and complex environments, that require us to form more abstract and generalizable internal models.
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After deciding to combine #philosophy of mind and AI in a single module AND reducing the number of lectures to one a week, we’re going through the material at quite a pace. Next week: phenomenal consciousness and bats! 🦇 #PhilMind #PhilAI
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Nice short essay by @melaniemitchell on the latest OpenAI models (o1 and o3) and their announced performance on some parts of the ARC benchmark.
https://aiguide.substack.com/p/did-openai-just-solve-abstract-reasoning
Putting to one side all the issues with lack of transparency and thus of proper testing given the proprietary nature of these models, the key question, as she points out, is: " Is o3 ... actually solving these tasks using the kind of abstraction and reasoning the ARC benchmark was created to measure?"
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Next Tuesday I'll be presenting some work-in-progress of mine at the seminar series The Cognitive Science of Generative AI, organised by @UlrikeHahn
Title: Functional Ontologies for Explainable AI: lessons from Cognitive Science
Time: Jan 14, 16:00 GMT
Register for zoom link here: psyc.bbk.ac.uk/cccm/cccm-seminAll welcome!
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Hybrid talk announcement:
Céline Budding on *What do LLMs know about language?*
Friday Dec 13, 12:15-13:00 (CET), online and on campusMore info here: https://www.umu.se/en/events/fraiday-what-do-llms-know-about-language-_12009997/
All welcome!
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Quick reminder about...
Talk by Susanna Schellenberg on *Reflexivity in AI Systems*
Friday, Nov 29th, 12:15-13:00 (CET)
On campus and on ZoomMore information and online registration here:
https://www.umu.se/en/events/fraiday-reflexivity-in-ai-systems_12006667/All welcome!
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*Upcoming Philosophy of AI talk*
Susanna Schellenberg will be giving a hybrid talk to Umeå's Centre for Transdisciplinary AI next week.
*Reflexivity in AI Systems*
Friday, Nov 29th, 12:15-13:00 (CET)
On campus and on ZoomMore information and online registration here: https://www.umu.se/en/events/fraiday-reflexivity-in-ai-systems_12006667/
All welcome!
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“If there is intelligence in the vicinity of pencils, shoes, cigarette lighters, maps or calculators, it is the intelligence of their users and inventors. The digital is no different.” #PhilAI #AIEthics aeon.co/essays/can-c...
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“If there is intelligence in the vicinity of pencils, shoes, cigarette lighters, maps or calculators, it is the intelligence of their users and inventors. The digital is no different.” #PhilAI #AIEthics https://aeon.co/essays/can-computers-think-no-they-cant-actually-do-anything
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This Friday at 12.15 CEST I'll be hosting a talk by computer scientist Kary Främling, in which he will present his work on Explainable AI techniques for producing explanations useful to a variety of stakeholders, rather than only to AI experts.
The talk is hybrid, so even if you are not currently enjoying the very colourful (and very wet) autumn in Umeå, you can join nonetheless!
More information here: https://www.umu.se/en/events/fraiday-social-explainable-ai-how-can-we-make-it-happen-_11985341/
All welcome!
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Great philosopher of cognitive science Nicholas Shea (also great PhD supervisor) has just published his second book, in open access, 'Concepts at the Interface'.
Link to the book: https://academic.oup.com/book/58062
It is about concepts, their roles in thinking, the frame problem, among much more. Highly recommended!
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#Apple’s focus on #multimodal object identification is particularly interesting in the context of the forthcoming #VisionPro. Imagine a voice assistant that can classify and augment real-world objects. #PhilTech #PhilAI https://aifocussed.medium.com/how-apples-new-ai-shakes-up-the-ai-world-by-seeing-what-gpt-4-misses-b3bf8190503b
