Baruch College. Henry Shevlin. Teacher Reviews 26 26 teacher reviews add a review. Add a review for Henry Shevlin. All Positive Negative. Not really interested in philosophy prior to this class but WOW. It's one of those classes that you stare at the clock, hoping that it never ends. Wonderful professor, does not hurt that he can also be a model.
Henry is amazing and is always willing to help. Nice and fun to talk to. Really have a passion for his subject and makes the class exciting. Amazing teacher, take his course and watch your mind be blown. He finds a way to make every topic seem interesting and gets the whole class involved. He loves mind-boggling objects that associate with philosophy.
Very passionate and it shows in his teaching habits. Only 2 test and 2 essays. Fair Grader. Implicit and sometimes explicit in the critique was a charge not merely of literary ineptitude or anatomical cluelessness but a certain lack of empathy and understanding for the different experiences of women apparently women do not routinely look in the mirror and compare their breasts to large items of fruit.
A striking demonstration of this came with the development of a system called GPT-2 earlier this year by researchers at OpenAI. GPT-2 is a language model trained on some eight million webpages with a simple goal: predict the next word in a sentence. But GPT-2 goes way beyond their capabilities. Once upon a time I was a very strong girl, But soon I began to fall. But maybe that was too easy. But I will keep it quiet if it means we will all be fine. On the one hand, stories seem critical to our understanding of the world, of language, and of each other.
And yet everywhere we look, we can see artificial systems encroaching on our estates, clumsily but relentlessly doing what we do with stories, all with a complete lack of understanding. For now, most of what we see is a bad cover version: a simulacrum of human behaviour built on very different foundations.
But with every new press release from Google or research paper from IBM, it feels like a little bit of human distinctiveness slips away. But the more I thought about it, the less sure I was. If AI can do so much without stories, then we face the question of why we tell them at all. Is the understanding they grant more superficial than meets the eye — nothing more than a rose-tinted Instagram filter on reality?
I think not. When we read a first-hand account of a parent who has lost a child or a soldier left to die on the battlefield, we can gain powerful new insights into human actions and emotions.
As far as raw prediction goes, perhaps an AI will one day be able to match us at guessing what a desperate lover will do next, or how a community will react to a sudden tragedy. But it will do so thanks only to having copious amounts of data analysed grindingly over hundreds of millions of processing cycles. We can do it on the cheap. In a memorable passage from Hogfather , the author Terry Pratchett asks us to grind the universe to the finest powder, and find a single atom of justice or molecule of mercy.
Yet somehow we can use these things to understand, anticipate, and even manipulate each other. Dr Henry Shevlin is a philosopher of mind and cognitive science whose research focuses on non-human minds in the form of both animals and artificial intelligence. Your email address will not be published.
Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. You have no items in your cart. Want to get some nice things? Go shopping. Henry Shevlin Dr Henry Shevlin is a philosopher of mind and cognitive science whose research focuses on non-human minds in the form of both animals and artificial intelligence. Web Twitter More Posts 1. However, even as we stand at the threshold of a new era of developments in artificial intelligence, disciplinary differences and disparate theoretical vocabularies still linger, and the goal of a unifying theory of human, animal, and artificial minds remains elusive.
To that end, the Varieties of Mind conference aims to bring together leading researchers in psychology, animal cognition, artificial intelligence, and philosophy of mind to explore questions including the following. The event will include five keynote lectures, six panels, and two public debates.
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