Attention conservation notice: Deep Thoughts about Generative AI and intellectual tradition, from a statistician who has not made a contribution to either area of scholarship.
The talk I gave last week at the NYU Cultural AI workshop was an expansion of some remarks from a blog post a year ago, and some stuff I said in e-mail to Henry Farrell. (Many thanks to Leif Wetherby and Tyler Shoemaker for the invitation and organization.) I was thinking of turning the talk into a post of its own. But Ben Recht has just scooped me, in the most generous way possible. So, if you're interested, read Ben, and, for the real gluttons for punishment, my slides.
(I am meditating on Leif's suggestion that I am trying to revive structuralism.)
Self-Centered; Minds, Brains and Neurons; Automata and Calculating Machines; Enigmas of Chance; The Commonwealth of Letters; The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts
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