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Zeroth Principles of AI

Monica Anderson

Machine Learning is not Scientific. To fully Understand AI, we need to descend below first levels of Science, to the Zeroth Level of Epistemology.

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In all of my workshops and most of my posts I end up discussing the differences between Reductionism and Holism. This has been my main message since 2005. Suddenly, but not unexpectedly, this has become critical knowledge.

Because we are a...

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ELIZA, SOPHIE, ChatGPT

This my second post on the history of language models. The first one discussed typo.c, created by Prof. Robert Morris, Sr.

My first encounter with a Language Model

I was a teaching assistant in college and was given a serious clue abo...

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Unexpected Emotions

I rarely post about my own emotions. But I feel I must provide a glimpse of where we all will be going.

This is about the emotional aspects of how we will relate to AI. And a little about the Epistemology of Emotions.

I have a still unusu...

a year ago
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LLMs Are Not

If we examine Large Language Models (LLMs) at the level of Epistemology, we find they are misunderstood in many ways. Starting with the name.

LLMs are not Models

In Epistemology, Models are human-understandable Simplifications of Real...

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Primitive Problem Solving Methods

An Epistemologist is attempting a formalization of Holism? This can’t end well.

Just to recap the definitions I use,

Reductionism is the use of Models

Holism is the avoidance of Models

In Reductionist problem solving, a human explores a...

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    I am an Experimental AI Epistemologist. I have been researching LLMs since Jan 1, 2001. Not a joke. Before that, I worked on Industrial Strength 20th Century AI for decades.

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