We shouldn't be calling chatbot mistakes "hallucinations", "bullshit", or preferably by any other mental metaphor. Here's why by @reginafabry.bsky.social and me:
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Applications are now open for 2 PhD scholarships on the “The Diversity and Variability of Grief” at Macquarie University, Sydney. 1/3 www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...
The first review of my book "Numerical Cognition and the Epistemology of Arithmetic" is out, by Valeria Giardino in the Journal of Numerical Cognition. It's a pretty good one!
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This book is finally out, co-edited with Alin Olteanu, Frederik Stjernfelt and Gabriele Gramelsberger.
Includes my paper "Two Approaches to Developing Human-Like Artificial Mathematical Intelligence". Please let me know if you're interested but don't have access.
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My book "Numerical Cognition and the Epistemology of Arithmetic" is now available as a paperback -- and for a much cheaper price!
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A new philosophy of AI paper out in Topoi, it is part of the very interesting collection "Meaning and Understanding via Proofs". This one is also open access.
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I like this review of my book by Eric Snyder a lot. It's at times very critical -- and I don't always agree with the criticism -- but ultimately in a constructive way, pointing out ways forward. Isn't that what academic philosophy should be all about?
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Wondering what to do with your cutting-edge research on epistemic agency and AI? Well, submit it to the Synthese Topical Collection I am editing with Stefan Buijsman and Giorgia Pozzi!
Deadilne Feb 1 2026.
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Check this out, it includes my first football article in English, about Alemannia Aachen and German football.
The final part of my early-2025 trilogy of AI papers is now out in AI and Ethics:
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Synthese - The function of chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT is based on detecting probabilistic patterns in the training data. This makes them vulnerable to generating factual mistakes in their...
Two scholarships are offered for candidates with a background in philosophy or a cognate discipline to study the diversity and variability of grief experiences.
This edited book gathers different perspectives on AI research and the role of AI in society, highlighting some key philosophical issues involved in AI
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One key question in the philosophy of artificial intelligence (AI) concerns how we can recognize artificial systems as intelligent. To make the general question more manageable, I focus on a particula...
The use of opaque AI systems complicates our epistemic agency, broadly understood as the ability to form and revise beliefs, share information and knowledge, ...
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications based on large language models have not enjoyed much success in symbolic processing and reasoning tasks, thus making them of little use in mathemat...
Issue 56 of The Blizzard, edited as ever by @jonawils.bsky.social, is out now, jam-packed with excellent football writing from @samindrakunti.bsky.social, @chrislepkowski.bsky.social, @stuartroyclarke.bsky.social, @rogerdom1.bsky.social and more.
More here 👇
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