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Large language model AIs can ingest long documents and answer questions about them, but a key question is how well they ‘understand’ individual sentences in the documents.
We’re told we need to think critically, to not fall for misinformation. Thankfully, it’s a skill we can practise and become better at.
Humans understand that ‘red ball’ makes sense but ‘ball red’ does not. Large language models? Not so much.
Many philosophers cast doubt on ‘doxastic voluntarism’: the idea that we can control what we believe, just like that. So can people be held to account for their beliefs?
People deeply want to believe they are good, reasonable and worthy. A little humility and curiosity can go a long way toward helping someone feel respected during an argument.
Faith and reason are often treated as opposites. But some philosophers believe they can only strengthen each other, including the Jewish sage Maimonides, who wrote the famous ‘Guide to the Perplexed.’
Gullibility, cynicism, pride, closed mindedness, negligence and wishful thinking. If you can use any of these to describe your reasoning, it’s likely you’re committing a sin of thought.
The psychologist proposes reason as a solution to all our problems, but telling people they must do something can backfire.
Most of us lack the expertise to evaluate climate science, but there are ways anyone can spot a badly reasoned argument.
Thanks to new deep-learning techniques, AI has the potential to analyse, improve and contribute to the process of human discussion.
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Education; Curriculum Director, UQ Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Computer Science and Philosophy, University of Dundee
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University
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Assistant Professor of Social Psychology, University of Utah
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Associate Professor of Psychology, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Researcher, UQ Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Judaic Studies, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Washington
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Fort Lewis College
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Professor of Psychology, University of South Carolina
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Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Trinity College Dublin
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County