Mindless Intelligence

The excerpt of Daston’s Rules was illuminating for me, as it articulated a clear approach towards the relationship and nuance between human and machine intelligence. I was particularly touched by the following two lines: “The inference drawn from the capacity of machines to calculate was not that machines were intelligent but rather that at least some intelligence […]

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Debate II Report: Whose creativity?

Debate Topic: Will AI bring more creativity and innovation or risks and dangers? Reflecting on the debate, it occurs to me that there were two different forms of creativity and innovation being referenced interchangeably that day, namely, human creativity and innovation on the one hand, and AI creativity and innovation on the other. The effects […]

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An elegant imitation of human reasoning in GPT-4

For our group project, we undertook a detailed evaluation of GPT-4’s performance on American Mathematics Competition 12 (AMC 12) problems, utilizing two distinct prompting techniques: persona-based prompting and chain-of-thought prompting. For the persona-based approach, we initiated the conversation with the following system prompt: “You are a PhD graduate in Applied Mathematics from the University of […]

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