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Well, yes. "AI" skips over all the difficulties and contradictions of philosophy, all the challenges of working out what it means to know something, things like "justified true belief" and so on. It 'just' (!) uses a probabilistic model to emit strings of text. It's basically a super-pundit. It can predict conventional wisdom really well.

But fundamentally it's trapped in the wrong side of a glass jar. It can't kick stones like Samuel Johnson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone

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