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Brian Leiter
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A leading figure in law and economics, Professor Ulen was a longtime faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was emeritus. My colleague Lisa Bernstein kindly shared this memorial notice from Nuno Garoupa, the President of the European Association of Law and Economics: It is with...
This is much in the news now. One “godfather” of AI, Yann LeCunn, famously thinks they are overblown, while another, Geoffrey Hinton, disagrees. This Axios piece offers a simple overview. This law professor thinks the “existential” risks are a bit of a distraction from much more immediate problems. AI could...
Philosopher J.P. Messina (Purdue) kindly gave permission to share what he posted on FB recently, and it seems to me his policy is a good one: I have refereed two papers this week that were pretty clearly written or heavily revised by LLMs. New policy: unless editors have an AI-use policy which requires AI-use...
A statement by 25 Fields Medalists in mathematics. Some of their case applies, I would venture, to philosophy. An excerpt, but do read the whole statement: [T]he push by AI companies to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics, and to the mathematical community. The...
Philosopher Steven Hales makes the point effectively.
Following up on this, philosopher Dan Kaufman, who taught for a quarter-century at Missouri State University, shares a draft of his provocative remarks being presented today at Florida Gulf Coast University. Some of this seems to me right, some debatable, all interesting. Comments are open, and signed comments will...
…and stand out even in a field dominated by nonsense. For example: It’s true that Chinese universities have made remarkable strides, and some of them host superb centers of research and education. However, they aren’t nearly as dominant as those rankings suggest. To borrow a phrase from Mao Zedong, many Chinese...
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