‘Modern’ Philosophers by DALL·E 2
Can DALL·E 2 create images of ancient philosophers like Plato, Aristotle and Immanuel Kant as they’d look in modern day universities? Sort of. Should it? Definitely not.
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Bias and the Myth of the Objective Average
Would you choose a black box AI surgeon with a 90% success rate over a human surgeon with 80% success? The answer exposes a fundamental and harmful assumption within dominant models of medical evidence.
Higher Orders of Evidence
DALLE 2 offers a far more powerful image generation AI than the popular open access ‘Craiyon’/’DALLE Mini’ model. How does DALLE 2 compare to DALLE Mini’s visions of hierarchies and pyramids of evidence?
Visions of Evidence
How does a machine learning algorithm picture hierarchies of evidence and evidence-based medicine – and what do these visions of evidence remind us of the way we understand, order and assemble the information we use to guide clinical practice?
The Jurassic Critique of Micozzi on Evidence Hierarchies
AI21 Labs have just released a public demo of their giant language model, Jurassic-1. At 178bn parameters, it rivals GPT-3. Feeding it my own work, it generated some interesting and potentially novel views on evidence hierarchies… and then attributed them to CAM researcher Marc Micozzi! Is Jurassic Micozzi’s critique of evidential pluralism in medicine sound?
Imitating Imitation: a response to Floridi & Chiriatti
In their 2020 paper, Floridi and Chiriatti subject giant language model GPT-3 to three tests: mathematical, semantic and ethical. I show that these tests are misconfigured to prove the points Floridi and Chiriatti are trying to make. We should attend to how such giant language models function to understand both their responses to questions and the ethical and societal impacts.
The Stochastic Masquerade and the Streisand Effect
What does Google have in common with Barbra Streisand? Since Google fired AI ethicists Margaret Mitchell and Timnit Gebru, our attention should turn to what they don’t want us to read: “On Stochastic Parrots”. Will the attempts to suppress this paper lead to it being overlooked, or will Google face Barbra Streisand’s fate?
Socrates in the Dungeon
I recently used the massive AI language model GPT-2 to create some humorous mock-Socratic dialogues. I’ve talked previously about the use of AI to generate philosophy. In the past, I’ve advised interested folks who don’t have the technical know-how to experiment with an open language model like GPT-2 to use …
Automatic Gadfly: Socrates by Machine
Recently, I’ve been experimenting with creating philosophical work using massive machine learning language models such as GPT-2, sometimes prompted to adopt specific philosophers’ styles and sometimes just letting it run. I’ve generated essay text, clinical trial reports and aphorisms in different philosophers’ styles. After reading Justin Weinberg’s post on the …
Dual Use Technology and GPT-3
Yesterday, AI researchers published a new paper entitled Language Models are Few-Shot Learners. This paper introduces GPT-3 (Generative Pretrained Transformer 3), the follow-up to last year’s GPT-2, which at the time it was released was the largest language model out there. GPT-2 was particularly impactful because of a cycle of media hype and consternation …