The Age of Spiritual Machines
‘Author’s Cut’ of a pop article recently published at ‘The Conversation’. Continue reading The Age of Spiritual Machines
Author: Nuhu Osman Attah
LLMs, Discursivity, and the Parable of Vaucanson’s Duck: Or, How to Digest Your Words
Yet another way LLMs are not like human speakers.
“Wenn ein [Automat] sprechen könnte, wir könnten ihn nicht verstehen.” — Wittgenstein, if he were still alive, maybe Continue reading LLMs, Discursivity, and the Parable of Vaucanson’s Duck: Or, How to Digest Your Words
EQUIVALENCE Redux: Putnam’s Enduring Refutation of Computational Functionalism
Putnam outlined an argument against computational functionalism in ‘Representation and Reality’ (1988) which does not seem to have received, after all these years, a convincing response. Continue reading EQUIVALENCE Redux: Putnam’s Enduring Refutation of Computational Functionalism
Rethinking Institutions: Nkrumah In the Metropole
A Belated and Opinionated Review of Nkrumah’s “Consciencism” Continue reading Rethinking Institutions: Nkrumah In the Metropole
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