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1 Points to make: BCS observation
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3 Phase 1: 1960--1970s: AI -> CogSci trajectory from basing AI on what's
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4 understood in Psych/Ling/Anthro/Socio etc. and developing
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5 computational implementable approaches to understanding e.g. human
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6 language. HMMs
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8 Phase 2, Late 1970s-early 20th: Evidence-based, but with relatively
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9 little evidence by today's standards: a few millions of words of
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10 written (American) English, a few 10s of hours of spoken, simple
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11 probabilistic models, _no_ reference to human process. ANNs.
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13 Phase 3, 2010s to 2023: Step-change in the size (of data, of models,
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14 of compute power) and in the complexity of the architecture (LLMs) and
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15 the underlying mathematics.
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17 Apothesis: Release of ChatGPT in April 2023 (?).
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19 But one thing hasn't changed: it's all about the _form_ of the data,
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20 not the substance (BCS).
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22 Dignity by right of being created and loved by God. No act is needed
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23 to have it, to deserve it.
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25 Social, Moral, Existential Dignity
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27 Techno-anthropology, that is, the kind of anthropology which is
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28 implicit in the technology, of AI in particular.
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30 [Taiwan example]
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32 Trans- and post- humanism -- AI can help us transcend the
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33 constraints/limitations we currently experience.
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35 "we need to redefine what it means to be human" [whom?]
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37 Things that this opens up:
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38 1) What it means to be human is open for revision
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39 2) Materiality is all
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40 3) Human limitations are _problems_ that can be transcended
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