AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans

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On Brian Cantwell Smith and the Promise of AI
Today I had the bittersweet pleasure of participating in a symposium honoring the late philosopher Brian Cantwell Smith, a good friend whom I’d known…
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On Evaluating Cognitive Capabilities in Machines (and Other "Alien" Intelligences)
(Apologies for the length of this post, which means it gets cut off in the email version.
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Do AI Reasoning Models Abstract and Reason Like Humans?
Going beyond simple accuracy for evaluating abstraction abilities
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Magical Thinking on AI
A Response to Thomas Friedman's Recent AI Columns in the New York Times
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Lying, gaslighting, & blackmailing — what's going on with AI chatbots?
In my final column for Science’s “Expert Voices” series, I wrote about why AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are misbehaving in all kinds of ways.
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How Your Cheese-Powered Baby Trounces AI
An O.G. AI Researcher on How Being Social and Cultural Makes us Intelligent--and Whether Machines Can Ever Learn Empathy
Published on Who We Are To Each Other • 
David Cope: Composer, computer scientist, and pioneer of computer generated music
Today I learned that the composer David Cope died on May 4, at the age of 83.
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AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans
AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans
I write about interesting new developments in AI.
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