Konrad Werner

@konradtwerner.bsky.social

Philosopher, Warsaw & Bayreuth. 4E cognition, institutions, economics. Occasionally commenting on world affairs. konradwerner.com

Now published in open access! Your one-stop shop for the philosophy of language models. It's the spiritual descendant of our two-part preprint from 2024, fully updated. This should be particularly useful for anyone looking for an entry point into this rapidly growing field.

The Philosophy of Language Models

The success of large language models (LLMs) across many domains of AI research has generated intense debate. Some attribute their impressive performance on complex tasks to human-like linguistic and ...

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

In principle this is right. But I'm afraid this battle is already lost. Academic writing, communication or even thinking itself is likely to undergo a major change. The very nature of what we do as creative agents is at stake. What comes next, I have no idea. If I had, I'd write something creative😜

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I will in any case not be reviewing applications unless they are LLM-free texts bsky.app/profile/iris...

We are taught that life’s immense variety emerged through natural selection based on random genetic mutations. | https://bit.ly/3Mdg4zN Microbiologist James Shapiro argues, however, that the mutations driving evolution are not random at all, but are the result of organisms modifying themselves.

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