New SubStack post about my first Conversation with Claude! In the first of what I aim to make a series, I have as brief discussion with the Claude LLM system from Anthropic about what constitutes "real" thought.

seanbarnett2.substack.com/p/conversati...

I'm considering writing a series of articles on AI topics and how they fit with philosophy, psychology, and likely many other topics, closely and less-closely related. I intend these to be for general audience and accessible to nearly anyone. What are some topics that you are interested in seeing?

AI Bait & Switch:

bait: we’re gonna make an AI that can solve any problem experts could solve. it’s gonna transform the whole world.

switch: what we have actually made is fun and amazing, but rarely reliable and often makes mistakes – but ordinary people makes mistakes, too. So … AGI solved!

A good read about some more AI misinformation that has been put out into the world.

substack.com/@aiguide/not...

In a stunning moment of self-delusion, the Wall Street Journal headline writers admitted that they don't know how LLM chatbots work.

Thoughts About Thinking seanbarnett2.substack.com?r=2a2xoi&utm...

Just launched my Substack about thinking and thinking about thinking! Check it out and please subscribe!

Seeing lots of articles lately to the effect of "how to spot AI wrote this".

Bottom line: no, you very likely can't. It's trained on human-written text. It's the most probable output based on what it's seen.

Just because a text isn't written how you would, doesn't mean that it's AI.

Posting my first-ever Medium essay. Just some thoughts I've had recently on how we think about LLMs.

medium.com/@brookforest...