On March 27 I'll have a discussion with William J. Rapaport (https://cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/). William is a Professor at U at Buffalo, a philosopher and computer scientist specializing in AI. He has written the book Philosophy of Computer Science: An Introduction to the Issues and the Literature (https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Philosophy+of+Computer+Science%3...), one of the authoritative sources on the topic. He has also published multiple papers on the topic. His 2 most recent ones are: (1) Will AI Succeed? The “Yes” Position (https://cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/Papers/aidebate.pdf), (2) Large Language Models and the Turing Test: The “Use of Words” vs. “General Educated Opinion” (https://cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/Papers/llmtt.pdf).

William has almost no talks or interviews online. I thought this would be a one-time opportunity for anyone interested in these topics to pose questions to William directly! So, if you have a question for William, please send it to me using THIS FORM: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScu0u_nW3S94CfrEGza...! Also, feel free to forward it to anyone you think would be interested.

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You should include your name, and link to channel in the form's self description. I accidentally followed the link blindly, and had no context.

Anyone following the link directly without viewing comments or knowing your hn username will be confused. I suspect your intended audience is larger than: people who already know you and your content well.

Thanks for the comment and I'm sorry for the late response. HackerNews is bad in that you get no notifications. I agree and I updated the form, although I suspect no one will see it now :-)

I was his TA a long time back for Great Ideas in Computer Science. Wonderful man! I'm happy to see him still active and publishing.

That's cool! I've heard similar nice words from other people who had him as a professor, advisor, etc.