AI models are trained on vast amounts of data, which might include copyrighted content. When selecting AI software – especially generative tools – it is important to confirm that they are built on licensed data. This can help address issues of confidentiality, usage considerations or limitations...
When news or ideas travel through the blogosphere, it’s via a self-selecting process: each person who passes it on, by posting a link to the story or whatever, is saying “I think this is worth reading”. Then again, that’s exactly how rumors and urban legends spread as well. When...
Finally, I think this book is useful for its insight into someone else’s mind. In particular, it seems to me that Platonic Forms (and Aristotle’s essences) are a type of essentialism. There are (at least) two ways of looking at the world: one is that things are whatever they are,...