Cameron Buckner
@cameronbuckner.bsky.social
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AI, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, animal cognition
Http://cameronbuckner.net
AI, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, animal cognition
Http://cameronbuckner.net
Phillip Kieval and I have a new commentary on Binz et al.'s Centaur model and its role in discovering a new theory of human cognition:
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
September 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Phillip Kieval and I have a new commentary on Binz et al.'s Centaur model and its role in discovering a new theory of human cognition:
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
I finally found an adversarial example for humans in the wild!
September 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I finally found an adversarial example for humans in the wild!
I think we should both avoid being convinced by breathless AI hype to adopt unsafe tools for things that probably shouldn't be automated in the first place, and also avoid falling for biased takedowns that romanticize human decision-making and minimize real advantages current AI tools can provide.
May 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I think we should both avoid being convinced by breathless AI hype to adopt unsafe tools for things that probably shouldn't be automated in the first place, and also avoid falling for biased takedowns that romanticize human decision-making and minimize real advantages current AI tools can provide.
Multi-modal Chain-of-Thought reasoning is already a big thing. That is, CoT models can "reason" not only with chains of text self-prompting, but also by producing images, audio, and more, and engaging with the stimuli they self-produce in a variety of ways.
arxiv.org/abs/2503.12605
arxiv.org/abs/2503.12605
May 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Multi-modal Chain-of-Thought reasoning is already a big thing. That is, CoT models can "reason" not only with chains of text self-prompting, but also by producing images, audio, and more, and engaging with the stimuli they self-produce in a variety of ways.
arxiv.org/abs/2503.12605
arxiv.org/abs/2503.12605
Heading to the Pacific APA in San Francisco for an Author Meets Critics session! Couldn't ask for better commentators.
Also some international book sightings in the wild (or citings?)
Also some international book sightings in the wild (or citings?)
April 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Heading to the Pacific APA in San Francisco for an Author Meets Critics session! Couldn't ask for better commentators.
Also some international book sightings in the wild (or citings?)
Also some international book sightings in the wild (or citings?)
This "Carl" guy is gonna hear from my lawyers...
March 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This "Carl" guy is gonna hear from my lawyers...
March 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Some news that isn't terrible: Looking forward to this event in South Korea next week:
February 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Some news that isn't terrible: Looking forward to this event in South Korea next week:
Truth be told, it's always me passing around the Non-Euclidean geometry...
January 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Truth be told, it's always me passing around the Non-Euclidean geometry...
I scroll until I find a Balrog
January 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I scroll until I find a Balrog
Most important lecture of the year: heading to my daughter's school to talk to a bunch of sixth graders about philosophy of artificial intelligence. And I have the perfect shirt picked out already...
December 13, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Most important lecture of the year: heading to my daughter's school to talk to a bunch of sixth graders about philosophy of artificial intelligence. And I have the perfect shirt picked out already...
Wow, this is basically my position.
I guess at least there will always be Marcus to disagree with?
(Lots of respect for Chollet's work...but of course it's not the *optimal* way to do reasoning. That's why we invented formal systems, as a cultural technology!)
I guess at least there will always be Marcus to disagree with?
(Lots of respect for Chollet's work...but of course it's not the *optimal* way to do reasoning. That's why we invented formal systems, as a cultural technology!)
December 10, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Wow, this is basically my position.
I guess at least there will always be Marcus to disagree with?
(Lots of respect for Chollet's work...but of course it's not the *optimal* way to do reasoning. That's why we invented formal systems, as a cultural technology!)
I guess at least there will always be Marcus to disagree with?
(Lots of respect for Chollet's work...but of course it's not the *optimal* way to do reasoning. That's why we invented formal systems, as a cultural technology!)
Dangit didn't they use the higher resolution graphic?
December 5, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Dangit didn't they use the higher resolution graphic?
The grads are memeing my paper advice again...
December 2, 2024 at 11:03 PM
The grads are memeing my paper advice again...
At airport after PSA, so long and thanks for all the PhiSci! Came in exhausted and left rejuvenated by the quality of the talks and conversation, especially by ECRs (jazz and Cajun food helps too). A+++ would recommend.
November 17, 2024 at 2:24 PM
At airport after PSA, so long and thanks for all the PhiSci! Came in exhausted and left rejuvenated by the quality of the talks and conversation, especially by ECRs (jazz and Cajun food helps too). A+++ would recommend.
Honored to be giving the keynote at the Society for Exact Philosophy tomorrow; my talk will focus on the prospects of using large language models like the GPT-series and Claude as models of human reasoning, a topic which has much been in the news lately.
meta.phil.ufl.edu/host/sep/mee...
meta.phil.ufl.edu/host/sep/mee...
November 7, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Honored to be giving the keynote at the Society for Exact Philosophy tomorrow; my talk will focus on the prospects of using large language models like the GPT-series and Claude as models of human reasoning, a topic which has much been in the news lately.
meta.phil.ufl.edu/host/sep/mee...
meta.phil.ufl.edu/host/sep/mee...
In this article we explore arguments against Tulving's traditional episodic/semantic memory distinction, provide them on a firm metaphysical foundation by drawing upon the theory of natural kinds and previous things I've said about a phenomenon called "transitional gradation."
September 16, 2024 at 1:22 PM
In this article we explore arguments against Tulving's traditional episodic/semantic memory distinction, provide them on a firm metaphysical foundation by drawing upon the theory of natural kinds and previous things I've said about a phenomenon called "transitional gradation."
Putting my feet *up*.
June 8, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Putting my feet *up*.
April 25, 2024 at 12:28 PM
If you want to hear a discussion over some of the ethical implications of my book, see this discussion with Reid Blackman on the Ethical Machines podcast. Thanks again for the great discussion, Reid!
www.reidblackman.com/podcast/ais-...
www.reidblackman.com/podcast/ais-...
April 2, 2024 at 1:01 PM
If you want to hear a discussion over some of the ethical implications of my book, see this discussion with Reid Blackman on the Ethical Machines podcast. Thanks again for the great discussion, Reid!
www.reidblackman.com/podcast/ais-...
www.reidblackman.com/podcast/ais-...
The remaining chapters of the book explore how this basic capacity for perceptual abstraction in the face of nuisance variation might be bootstrapped to greater degrees of efficiency, flexibility, and control by layering on more domain-general modules simulating other faculties.
February 11, 2024 at 7:37 PM
The remaining chapters of the book explore how this basic capacity for perceptual abstraction in the face of nuisance variation might be bootstrapped to greater degrees of efficiency, flexibility, and control by layering on more domain-general modules simulating other faculties.