Fenner @FennerTanswell@fediphilosophy.org
Philosopher of maths, logic and epistemology, working at TU Berlin
The audio of my Aristotelian Society lecture is now available online.
https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-2022-23-programme/catarina-dutilh-novaes/catarina-dutilh-novaes-podcast/
One of the things that makes #LLM #Chatbots seem like they can carry on a conversation is that they adjust their state according to the conversation as it evolves, and respond in light of previous comments from both participants.
This may be good for a conversation, but naively implemented, it's quite a bad thing for a search tool / knowledge engine.
Here's an example. Here one answer #Bard gives when you ask it what I think of the InfoMap algorithm that I co-developed with Martin Rosvall.
Help a researcher!
I'm designing an experiment and am searching for easily-explainable distinctions that most people don't know.
For example, the differences between:
- a hardtail and full-suspension mountain bike
- an engine and a motor
- jail and prison
- a lawyer and attorney
- others?
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I'm still blown away by LLMs and think these will be disruptive of a lot of things. I also think they do display creativity. To that end, here is: "The Muppets' Principia Mathematica by Betrand Russell".
Philosopher of maths, logic and epistemology, working at TU Berlin
