Tag: language

  • ChatGPT Doesn’t Think. It Just Guesses the Next Best Word.

    ChatGPT Doesn’t Think. It Just Guesses the Next Best Word.

    Isn’t that what we…? ChatGPT and LLMs (Large Language Models of which ChatGPT is an exemplar) have taken the world by storm and triggered a hype cycle equivalent to the original dot.com boom. Almost everyone has tried ChatGPT (200 million active users and counting), and EVERYONE has seen the results of LLMs just by using…

  • Words Fail Us – Language and Rationality

    Words Fail Us – Language and Rationality

    “Strange to wander in the mist, each is alone. No tree knows his neighbor. Each is alone.” Hesse Cognitive science can’t settle questions of right and wrong. But it can set the table for theories of rational decision-making and ethics. And the one thing we know for sure about how we think is that, at…