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I am endlessly baffled by 4E theorists who argue that "embodiment" is somehow the unique domain of humans, as if particular machines don't always have bodies situated in particular contexts. Let's talk about Dreyfus' critique of AI! (Megathread)

Is encouraging LLMs to reason through a task always beneficial?🤔 NO🛑- inspired by when verbal thinking makes humans worse at tasks, we predict when CoT impairs LLMs & find 3 types of failure cases. In one OpenAI o1 preview accuracy drops 36.3% compared to GPT-4o zero-shot!😱

Honored to be participating in "Food and Talk", a discussion hosted each year by the UF philosophy department. My colleague Max Robitzsch and I will discuss human uniqueness, in the context of ancient philosophy to work on animal cognition and AI. calendar.ufl.edu/clas_philosoph…

Join us for the webinar on Nov 14, 2024, at 5 PM GMT featuring Cameron Buckner (Cameron Buckner), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Florida, and other esteemed panellists. Sign up now: oxford.ly/48sDk3i

University of Maryland College Park has 30 positions for AI at all levels. Yes, that's thirty. Focus areas are accessibility, sustainability, social justice, and learning. Please RT. ejobs.umd.edu/postings/124144

The PhD program in philosophy at the University of Cincinnati is excited to invite new applications for the 2024-2025 academic year! Our department has strengths in philosophy of science (including cognitive science, biology, physics, and HPS), mind, and ethics. Please share! 1/8

"Kitap, Aristoteles, İbn-i Sina ve John Locke gibi filozofların fikirleriyle çağdaş yapay zeka gelişmelerini bir araya getirerek, sinir ağlarının, empiristlerin uzun zamandır rasyonel düşünce için gerekli olduğunu öne sürdükleri algı, bellek ve dikkat gibi psikolojik yetileri

Honored to be giving the keynote at the Society for Exact Philosophy tomorrow; my talk will focus on the prospects of using large language models like the GPT-series and Claude as models of human reasoning, a topic which has much been in the news lately. meta.phil.ufl.edu/host/sep/meeti…

My entry on social cognition in animals is now up at the SEP. I hope it is useful. It focuses mostly on theory of mind/mindreading given the distribution of existing literature, but expresses the hope that the literature will continue to broaden its focus. plato.stanford.edu/entries/animal…

Don't forget to apply to this if you are interested in a postdoc at University of Florida with me and others in philosophy of AI. Deadline Dec 15.

The Association Association tentative schedule is up! Jan 23-24 at UF Gainesville Lots of great talks! Send an e-mail to [email protected] if you would like to attend as a non-presenter. docs.google.com/document/d/15R…