Happening Wednesday: APA Eastern Division past president David Chalmers of @NYU will deliver the 2024 Richard J. Burke Lecture in Philosophy, Religion and Society at Oakland Philosophy. The talk will explore connections between philosophy and AI. patch.com/michigan/roche…

descartes lectures on 'large language models and the philosophy of mind' in tilburg july 29-31 (alas the lectures are not by descartes, just by me). plus a workshop on the same topic to which anyone can apply.
descarteslectures2024.wordpress.com/registration/

my APA presidential address on 'does thought require sensory grounding? from pure thinkers to large language models' is now published. i argue for no: so, even if LLMs lack sensory grounding, this doesn't entail that they can't think or understand. philpapers.org/rec/CHADTR

thread summary: although the scaling hypothesis is often discussed as if it's widely held, few seem to publicly endorse it. apparent exceptions: Ilya Sutskever, Irina Rish (some version), scott alexander (40%), and some say amodei and hinton. a survey & metasurvey would be useful!

who endorses the AGI scaling hypothesis: roughly, that scaling current systems and methods will lead to human-level AGI?

Neuron Q&A: David J. Chalmers

or, philosophy meets neuroscience

cell.com/neuron/pdf/S08…

delighted that the Berggruen Institute prize jury has awarded this year's berggruen prize for philosophy and culture to patricia hill collins.

'the great AI consciousness conundrum'

by Grace Huckins in MIT Technology Review, featuring Robert Long Liad Mudrik Susan Schneider Eric Schwitzgebel Anil Seth

technologyreview.com/2023/10/16/108…

back to the science.