Jan Höglund's Blog

Category: AI

  • Retrospective 2024-11

    This is a retrospective of week 11, 2024 (2024-03-11–2024-03-17). As I mentioned last week, I’m currently working on a review of Robert Rosen’s book Anticipatory Systems. This week, I’ve started reading Bjørn Ekeberg’s book on Metaphysical Experiments. Ekeberg’s focus is on the metaphysics of cosmology and the key assumptions that underlie the mathematical treatment of…

  • Retrospective 2024-01

    This is a retrospective of the first week 2024 (2024-01-01–2024-01-07). I will write in both English and Swedish because I write for myself. Newborn thoughts are easier to express in my native language (Swedish). However, most of what I read is in English and then I will stick to English. For the most part, I…

  • Playing with ChatGPT

    I played with ChatGPT this morning (Nov 10, 2023). This is what happened: User (me): Please, make the language in the following paragraph simple, clear, and succinct: It is profoundly misleading to compare an organism to a machine. Machines do not create themselves. They have no own interests. They do not resist being switched off.…

  • A test of ChatGPT

    Introduction I tested ChatGPT today (April 17, 2023). I checked what the ChatGPT Mar 23 Version knew about Robert S. Hartman and his work. Below is an excerpt of ChatGPT’s answers to my questions, together with my comments. The comments are based on my reading of Robert S. Hartman’s two books Freedom to Live and…