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        Date: 2022-05-16 21:37:19+00:00
        From: Bill Benzon <wlbenzon@gmail.com>
        Subject: Non-Human Words: On GPT-3 as a Philosophical Laboratory | American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Willard,

This article is worth reading. Here’s 2 paragraphs almost at the end:

> What will it mean to be surrounded by a multitude of non-human forms of
> intelligence? What is the alternative to building large-scale collaborations
> between philosophers and technologists that ground in engineering as well as an
> acute awareness of the philosophical stakes of building LLMs and other
> foundational models?
> 
> It is naive to think we can simply navigate–or regulate–the new world that
> surrounds us with the help of the old concepts. And it is equally naive to
> assume engineers can do a good job at building the new epoch without making
> these philosophical questions part of the building itself: for articulating new
> concepts is not a theoretical but a practical challenge; it is at stake in the
> experiments happening in (the West at) places like OpenAI, Google, Microsoft,
> Facebook, and Amazon.


From a whole issue of Dædalus is devoted to AI.

<https://www.amacad.org/publication/non-human-words-gpt-3-philosophical-laboratory>

Bill Benzon
wlbenzon@gmail.com <mailto:wlbenzon@gmail.com>
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