The computerized philosopher: Can you distinguish Daniel Dennett from a computer?

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INTRO: You've probably heard of GPT-3, the hot new language model that can produce strikingly humanlike language outputs in response to ordinary questions – basically, the world's best chatbot. (Google's LaMDA, a similar type of program, has also recently been in the news.)

With Daniel Dennett's cooperation, Anna Strasser, Matthew Crosby, and I have "fine-tuned" GPT-3 on millions of words of Daniel Dennett's philosophical writings, with the thought that this might lead GPT-3 to output prose that is somewhat like Dennett's own prose.

We're curious how well philosophical blog readers and people with PhDs in philosophy can distinguish Dennett's actual writing from the outputs of this fine-tuned version of GPT-3. So we've asked Dennett ten philosophical questions and recorded his answers. We posed the same questions to GPT-3, four times for each of the ten questions, to get four different answers for each question.

We'd love it if you can take a quiz to see if you can pick out Dennett's actual answer to each question. Can GPT-3 produce Dennett-style answers sufficiently realistic to sometimes fool blog readers and professional philosophers?

This is a research study being conducted on the internet platform Qualtrics. It will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. Anyone is welcome to participate.

If you're interested and would like to help, take the quiz here.

https://ucriverside.az1.qualtrics.com/jf...ty4B7pcnxY
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