Philosopher

Credit: Chuan Chuan/Shutterstock "ChatGPT is a natural language generation platform based…

My undrugged mind, to borrow a witticism from J. L. Austin, delivers to me a world of “medium-sized dry goods” and little else. My drugged mind delivers to me spirits or djinni or angels or…

Late October — rain in New York.As was his habit, Noam arrived at the studio just after six in the morning. The antechamber was cold. He had not come in for a while because of a bad cough…

David ChalmersInstead, Chalmers decided to approach the whole matter as a formal inquiry in scholarly fashion. "You know, what actually is or might be the evidence in favor of…

In normal times, it would seem bizarre to sit at lunch in midtown Manhattan calculating the precise probability of nuclear destruction with a philosopher. But these are not normal times.…

Second homes, for so long the objects of aspiration, are swiftly becoming targets of condemnation. This year may even turn out to be the year that attitudes decisively shifted. In July,…

Credit: University at Buffalo Elon Musk in 2020 said that artificial intelligence (AI)…

MALIHABAD, India — Theirs is a friendship of over half a century, the old man and his mango tree.His days, spent with a monk-like contentment knowing that each could be his last, are now…

Kids ages 5 to 11 can now be vaccinated against COVID-19 following the Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorization of the Pfizer Bio-NTech vaccine for this age group and…

“If I use images of people that look a little bit different, like I had a girl that had a bald head as my thumbnail, and she shaved her head because she was someone that was dealing with…