my APA presidential address on "does thought require sensory grounding? from pure thinkers to large language models" is now published. i argue for no: so, even if LLMs lack sensory grounding, this doesn't entail that they can't think or understand.
Does the capacity to think require the capacity to sense? A lively debate on this topic runs throughout the history of philosophy and now animates discussions of artificial intelligence. Many have ...
on X, i asked: who endorses the AGI scaling hypothesis: roughly, that scaling current systems and methods will lead to human-level AGI? since bluesky is philosopher-heavy, let me also ask here: which philosophers endorse or have expressed sympathy with the hypothesis, or with something nearby?
Neuron Q&A: David J. Chalmers or, a philosopher encounters neuroscience www.cell.com/neuron/pdf/S...
as a jury member, i'm delighted that this year's berggruen prize for philosophy and culture has been awarded to patricia hill collins.