Gert @Gert@qoto.org

So today I tried to track down this article in the Economist from Douglas Hofstadter.

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/06/09/artificial-neural-networks-today-are-not-conscious-according-to-douglas-hofstadter

According to my reference librarian, it's unobtainable here at the University of Washington.

We have access, print and online, to all of the Economist from 1981, but not this piece — it's special "online only" content just for personal subscribers.

IMO this is unconscionable. I wonder if the author (a hero of mine since age 14) is aware they've wasted his time in this way.

Michael Kosinksi just posted an arXiv paper claiming that "Theory of mind may have spontaneously emerged" in GPT3.

arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083

Why? He administered theory of mind instruments to the bot and it performed well.

Dr. Kosinksi has struggled before with how inference works; he thought the performance of his AI gaydar detector provided evidence for the prenatal hormone exposure hypothesis for sexual orientation rather than, say, self-presentation choices.

https://www.callingbullshit.org/case_studies/case_study_ml_sexual_orientation.html

«Siamo stanchi» ha detto convinta Emma Ruzzon, presidente del Consiglio degli studenti dell'Università di Padova che lunedì ha appeso a lato del leggio una corona di alloro in memoria di chi è arrivato a compiere gesti estremi quali il suicidio per problemi legati alla carriera universitaria.
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Why aren't chatbots good replacements for search engines? See this thread:

https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/109570351833193530

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