Davide Aldé
davidealde.bsky.social
Davide Aldé
@davidealde.bsky.social
PhD student in philosophy of consciousness at Monash University, Melbourne
Reposted by Davide Aldé
My paper with Tim Bayne "Chatting with bots: AI, speech acts, and the edge of assertion" is now up at Inquiry.

Our question: can large language model powered chatbots make assertions (can they state, claim or affirm things)?

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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Chatting with bots: AI, speech acts, and the edge of assertion
This paper addresses the question of whether large language model-powered chatbots are capable of assertion. According to what we call the Thesis of Chatbot Assertion (TCA), chatbots are the kinds ...
www.tandfonline.com
December 23, 2024 at 1:58 AM
Reposted by Davide Aldé
An excellent crammer on Dan Dennett's philosophy, written by Tim Bayne in a lucid, lively style to rival Dennett's own.
"What needs to go is not so much folk psychology... but the gloss on folk psychology that philosophers have imposed on it."
aeon.co/essays/as-re...
‘As real as it ever gets’: Dennett’s conception of the mind | Aeon Essays
Often metaphorical and allusive, the philosopher’s work will long be remembered for how it grappled with everyday thought
aeon.co
December 16, 2024 at 10:05 AM
Reposted by Davide Aldé
Very excited to have this out in Translational Psychiatry!! 🍄🐀 A proud moment of my PhD with a truly amazing team

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Psilocybin increases optimistic engagement over time: computational modelling of behaviour in rats - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Psilocybin increases optimistic engagement over time: computational modelling of behaviour in rats
www.nature.com
September 30, 2024 at 11:11 AM