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• ChatGPT’s Ontological Landscape

  

  I've published a new working paper. Title above, links, abstract, table of contents, and introduction below: Academia.edu:... Read more

  The 01 November 2023 by   Bbenzon
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• KH1: Kosher Howie is Jewish, and Proud of It, All Over Jersey City

  

  It's a bit difficult to make out, but over to the right of the dreidle, just above his tag, KH1 has noted: "I'm a Jewish Toy." That's a pun. A dreidle, of... Read more

  The 06 November 2023 by   Bbenzon
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• What’s Going On? LLMs and IS-A Sentences

  

  For the moment I have decided that Waddington’s classic diagram of the epigenetic landscape is a useful way of thinking about when happens when an LLM responds... Read more

  The 08 November 2023 by   Bbenzon
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• November Ramble: AI, Yevick, of AI, Much Ado, Photos

  

  There’s a mixed bag of tricks on my plate these days. Let’s run through them. LLMs and holography This is a major chunk of work. I’ve written a bunch of materia... Read more

  The 09 November 2023 by   Bbenzon
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• A Dialectical View of the History of AI: We’re Only in the Antithesis Phase. [A...

  

  The idea that history proceeds by way of dialectical change is due primarily to Hegel and Marx. While I read bit of both early in my career, I haven’t been... Read more

  The 15 November 2023 by   Bbenzon
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• Once Again, What’s Computation? I’m Thinking in Relation to Operations of the...

  

  For me, those questions began when I was faced with the structure of “Kubla Khan”: That’s just the first 36 lines, but the last 18 look the same: That looked... Read more

  The 18 November 2023 by   Bbenzon
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• Shoot-Out at the AGI Corral: Will the Meaning of “artificial General Intelligenc...

  

  I’ve been following the defenestration of Sam Altman from his position as CEO of OpenAI on Friday, November 17, 2023. At the moment, Sunday morning, 9:04 AM EDT... Read more

  The 19 November 2023 by   Bbenzon
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• The Agni Pariksha Segment from Nina Paley's Sita Sings the Blues

  

  Now that I've just put fire on the table, though a segment from Disney's original animated version of The Jungle Book, I might as well go whole hog. Read more

  The 21 November 2023 by   Bbenzon
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• Music and Meaning in an Age of Intelligent Machines [Keil, Yes! Thiel, No!]

  

  Tara Isabella Burton has recently published an essay in which she critiques the ideas of Peter Thiel, a venture capitalist, billionaire, and prominent Silicon... Read more

  The 26 November 2023 by   Bbenzon
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• The OpenWHALE Rounds the Horn and Vanishes, An Allegory About the Age of...

  

  In less than a week I’ll be posting a new essay to 3 Quarks Daily. The current working title: “Investing in AI is like buying shares in a whaling voyage helmed... Read more

  The 30 November 2023 by   Bbenzon
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