Analytic philosophy
20th-century tradition of Western philosophy
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| 2023 |
Stochastic parrot
Large language models demonstrated good results on SuperGLUE (Super General Language Understanding Evaluation) benchmarks, challenging the stochastic parrot hypothesis.
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| 2023 |
Stochastic parrot
The term 'stochastic parrot' was designated as the AI-related Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society.
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| 2022 |
Stochastic parrot
A survey was conducted revealing that 51% of AI professionals believe large language models can truly understand language with sufficient data.
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| 2021 |
Stochastic parrot
Emily M. Bender and co-authors (Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Margaret Mitchell) coined the term 'stochastic parrot' in their influential artificial intelligence research paper, critiquing large language models' lack of genuine language understanding.
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| July 2021 |
Stochastic parrot
The Alan Turing Institute hosted a keynote and panel discussion on the 'stochastic parrot' paper.
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| 2019 |
Falsifiability
Vere and Gibson published an article titled 'Evidence based medicine as science', discussing the challenges of falsifiability in scientific theories by highlighting that theories are not simply tested through falsification but also involve auxiliary assumptions and background knowledge.
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| 2019 |
Stochastic parrot
Researchers conducted an experiment testing Google's BERT Large Language Model (LLM) using the argument reasoning comprehension task, revealing that the model could achieve near-perfect scores by relying on specific hint words like 'not', demonstrating shortcut learning and potential limitations in language understanding.
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| 2018 |
Reality
Time-use studies found that the average U.S. American spent around eleven hours every day looking at screens, highlighting the significant impact of media technology on daily life and perception of reality.
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| 2017 | Alvin Plantinga is awarded the Templeton Prize, being described by Time magazine as 'America's leading orthodox Protestant philosopher of God'. |
| 2014 |
Aboutness
Stephen Yablo published the book 'Aboutness' through Princeton University Press, contributing to the philosophical discourse on the concept of aboutness.
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| 2012 |
Semiotics
International annual conferences called Semiofest began, focusing on marketing semiotics.
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