The Machine Has No Yesterday

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On time, memory, and what large language models cannot do with either It started, as these things often do, with a podcast. I was listening to Orit Halpern on the BBC’s ‘In Our Time‘. She is an historian and self-declared cyberneticist, sharp on the politics of data. One of her comments caught my attention. She was talking about how computational …

ChatGPT and the ethics of AI

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I gave a lecture at the University of Leeds this week on Data and the Ethics of AI. I used ChatGPT to demonstrate some key points, and then decided to ask ChatGPT more. Here is a fragment of that conversation. Q: Are there any circumstances under which an AI system should lie? Please also frame your answer with particular reference …