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Does an AI create new knowledge?

Posted on September 12, 2024September 15, 2025 by Arto

The LLM can interpolate within the knowledge space it’s been trained on, filling in gaps by blending concepts in novel ways. However, it will stay within the convex hull of its training data, constrained by the boundaries of what it has learned.

Posted In AI, Philosophy

Can an AI take responsibility?

Posted on May 29, 2024July 23, 2024 by Arto

A mantra repeated several times at a healthcare conference that I attended recently, is that only humans, not AI, can take responsibility for something. This made me think more deeply about what it really means to take responsibility and what, if anything, sets humans and AIs apart in this respect.

Posted In AI, Brain, Philosophy, Systems engineering

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Beyond gender neutral bathrooms.

Most epistemologists have found it overwhelmingly plausible that what is false cannot be known.

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