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Can Machines be in Language? LLMs brought language to machines. Machines are not up to the Challenge, by P. Denning and B. S. Rousse

A wonderful Article/Opinion Piece on LLMs’ relationship to human languages. I highly recommend it!“Denning, Peter, and B. Scot Rousse. 2024. “Can Machines Be in Language?” Commun. ACM 67(3):32–35. doi:10.1145/3637629.” After…

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Excellent Blog-Post/Article by Henry Farrell: Large language models are cultural technologies. What might that mean? Four different Perspectives

Excellent Blog-Post/Article by Henry Farrell: Large language models are cultural technologies.

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Reading Ned Block’s “Can only Meat Machines be Conscious?” in TICS 2761, 2025.

Ned Block discusses three common assumptions in AI research regarding AI consciousness: 1) computational functionalism: "implement computations of a certain kidn is necessary and sufficient for consciousness..."

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Why Heideggerian AI failed and how fixing it would require making it more Heideggerian (Dreyfus 2007)

Artificial Intelligence 171 (2007) 1137–1160 The debates between philosophy and AI have always been a rather personal matter for Dreyfus. Not that his philosophical legacy depended on it – he…

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