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Humanist Archives: March 15, 2025, 7:46 a.m. Humanist 38.403 - the strangeness of artificial intelligence?

				
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        Date: 2025-03-15 07:27:25+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: developments of ChatGPT, DeepSeek &al

Paul Taylor, professor of health informatics at University College
London, has written a worthy article on "AI Wars" in the latest issue of
the London Review of Books (47.5, 20 March). For those who have access,
it is available at:
<https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n05/paul-taylor/ai-wars>. 

Taylor's observations on the strangeness of behaviour from these LLM 
systems is what caught my eye in particular and leads me to ask if any 
here know of intelligent work on the deviation of AI from the human 
mode of intelligence.

Comments welcome, as always.

Yours,
WM
--
Willard McCarty,
Professor emeritus, King's College London;
Editor, Humanist
www.mccarty.org.uk


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