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Today I'm doing something a little bit different.

Michael invited me to give a talk on a certain topic, not one that I had thought much about before.

The topic was, can a machine machine understand and he wanted to have a

little reflection on the relationship between artificial intelligence, knowledge, wisdom,

and understanding. And that sounded intriguing to me and so I thought like a good wedding

DJ, maybe I should take some requests and this is the product of that work.

So I think, I mean, the field of artificial intelligence,

as far as I can understand, is in some ways a collaborative field,

like what cognitive science was in the 90s,

and philosophers play some role in that.

And to speak intelligently about these issues, it looks like ideally you'd be super well informed

in computer science, mathematics, philosophy, maybe some other fields.

Nobody's super well informed in all those areas.

So what you're going to hear today is a little contribution using, relying on my background

and philosophy of mind and epistemology and then venturing pretty far outside of my lane

to talk about large language models.

And we're privileged to have as a guest an emeritus professor of artificial intelligence

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