Virtual Intelligence
Contemporary AI systems produce intelligent outputs without agency, intention, or judgment. This series examines what happens when humans rely on systems that don't know true from false and right from wrong — and asks where accountability lies.
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The Art of Finding Out: Knowledge Acquisition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (opens the original)
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The Exchange Monitor (opens the original)
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Virtual Intelligence and the Death of Authorship, Part 2 (opens the original)
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What's Wrong with Opus? (opens the original)
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Virtual Intelligence and the Death of Authorship, Part 1 Podcast (opens the original)
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Virtual Intelligence and the Death of Authorship, Part ISubstack has deployed an AI writing detector across the platform, and the first serious tests suggest it measures the wrong thing. This essay examines Pangram’s statistical properties, the tests that broke it, and the deeper question the tool cannot answer: when a person adopts a machine’s idea as their own, who is the author? Part one of two.Essay: https://chorrocks.substack.com/p/virtual-intelligence-and-the-death-of-authorship-part-i <s
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