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Impersonating a philosopher sounds easy, especially if the AI was trained on her writings. It's simply a matter of stringing together phrases, much like Eliza c
by allears 4y ago
Impersonating a philosopher sounds easy, especially if the AI was trained on her writings. It's simply a matter of stringing together phrases, much like Eliza could do years ago.
- ben_w 4y agoOne of my memories of my teenage years is a fellow highschool student stringing together random stereotypical nerd words. I assume he was mocking me. Hollywood gets most professions wrong: Maverick could face up to the death penalty depending on the exact political situation in Top Gun; nobody would send miners into space instead of training astronauts; and the CSI TV shows have very little in common with actual crime scene investigation. It's easy to impersonate any group when the audience is unfamiliar with that group. What is impressive is that this fools domain experts: """Even knowledgeable philosophers who are experts on Dan Dennett’s work have substantial difficulty distinguishing the answers created by this language generation program from Dennett’s own answers"""
- earthboundkid 4y agoYou can take the quiz yourself on Prof. Schwitzgebel's blog. I got 5/10. http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2022/07/results-computerized-philosopher-can.html http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2022/07/results-compute...
- ben_w 4y agoI have a grade E in A-level philosophy, and given that even subject experts had a hard time, I expect I'll do really badly. Let's find out… I scored 1/10, so I wouldn't be surprised if you could fool me with an an entire book generated this way.