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Writing assistant, workhorse, or accelerator? How academics are using GenAI
Mads P. Sørensenblogs.lse.ac.uk
For example, scientists at the Santa Fe Institute, such as Artemy Kolchinsky and distinguished physicist David Wolpert, are working on semantic information measures based on an approach known as teleosemantics, which assumes that the system being analyzed pursues some objective.
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