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https://philosophy-chat.com/ Over the last few months, I’ve been working on a Q&A application for academic philosophy questions. I now have V1 deployed on the web! Please be patient, as it commonly fails after the first question and the runtime is ~10 seconds per question. But it works, and I’m proud of it. This project was motivated by 1) my desire to personally use the site as a way to deepen my knowledge of philosophy and 2) as a proof-of-concept LLM application that can give sources and make up wrong information less....

Large Language Models (LLMs) refer to entities like ChatGPT, or the variety of competitors that have emerged recently. These are massive machine learning models made on transformer architectures, trained on mind-numbingly large sets of text, and fine-tuned with human feedback. They end up being pretty good at writing and reading as a result. Recently, they’ve become quite useful in conversation about a ton of topics, technical and personal. One capability that LLMs are documented at excelling at is, when prompted, giving convincing statements about their “consciousness”....