The Academics That Think ChatGPT Is BS

07/19/24 • 56 min

In a paper released earlier this year, three academics from the University of Glasgow classified ChatGPT's outputs not as "lies," but as "BS" - as defined by philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt in "on BS" (and yes I'm censoring that) - and created one of the most enjoyable and prescient papers ever written. In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by academics Michael Townsen Hicks, James Humphries and Joe Slater in a free-wheeling conversation about ChatGPT's mediocrity - and how it's not built to represent the world at all.

LINKS:

Paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5

Michael Townsen Hicks: https://www.townsenhicks.com/

Joe Slater: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/joeslater/

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07/19/24 • 56 min

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Better Offline - The Academics That Think ChatGPT Is BS

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Hello and welcome to Better Offline. I'm your host ed z trun. In early June, three researchers from the University of Glasgow published a paper in the Ethics of Information and Technology Journal called chat GBT is Bullshit. And I just want to be clear. This is a great and thoroughly researched and well argued paper. This is not silly at all. It's actually great academia. And t

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