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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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GPT-3 Experiment: DigiDan vs. Dennett

The podcast hosts discuss an experiment where they fine-tuned a language model, GPT-3, on texts by Dan Dennett. They compare the responses of the actual Dan Dennett with the model's, finding that the model's answers were often indistinguishable from Dennett's. Experts were then asked to identify the source of the answers, correctly identifying Dennett's about 50% of the time.

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