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The Post-Modern Homunculus

2016· book-chapter· en· W2579110461 on OpenAlexaff
Eric Neufeld, Sonje Finnestad

Bibliographic record

VenueFrontiers in artificial intelligence and applications · 2016
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPhilosophy and Theoretical Science
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAstrobiologyPhysics

Abstract

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Throughout the ages, magicians, scientists and charlatans have created life-like artifacts, some purported to be intelligent. In one famous case, the Chess Player, the intelligence was a little person hidden inside doing the thinking. Analogously, throughout the history of philosophy, and cognition, theories have arisen to explain intelligence in humans, but a philosophical problem with many such explanations is that they use what is called a homunculus argument – the explanation, upon scrutiny reveals a “little one” (homunculus) in the proposed mental apparatus that is responsible for thinking. For most of the era of computing, the Imitation Game, as so simply yet subtly put forward by Alan Turing, has been considered the gold standard for measuring this mysterious quantity, though recently Hector Levesque has pointedly argued that the time has come to abandon Turing's test for a better one of his own design, which he describes in a series of acclaimed papers. In particular, we argue that Levesque, who has cleverly found the ‘homunculus’ in the arguments of others, has essentially regressed the problem of intelligence to a homunculus in his own system.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.430
Threshold uncertainty score0.838

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.035
GPT teacher head0.300
Teacher spread0.265 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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