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Can we infer how the world works from text alone?
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I was interested recently to find an argument that the success of LLMs in some contexts “can only be explained satisfactorily by the supposition that they have built a world model of some kind.” Given my...
A mystery behind human thought and knowledge
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We all know that learning and knowledge requires us to understand and grasp concepts. Philosophers spend their time trying to clarify and define concepts. Researchers often try to develop new concepts to under...
Seeing like a human
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In a previous essay, I illustrated some differences between humans and AI by contrasting the empiricism of David Hume with the ‘transcendental idealism’ of Immanuel Kant. Put simply, Hume believed that all...
World models and AI: Mission impossible?
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While different AI systems continue to surprise and shock people, there is a growing sense that the current approaches to improving the underlying technology are capping out. The buzz is in new application...
AI acknowledges its intellectual limitations, and gets smarter
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There has been a lot of buzz around the latest set of autonomous AI coding tools, most commonly Claude Code. These tools are significantly better at autonomously producing coherent, quality code. For many...
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