This is an amazing resource and deserves to be widely known and used. It is an excellent pedagogical tool for learning Lacanian ideas, explaining them clearly, and setting them in a theoretical context that helps clarify them. It is also good for sharpening our understanding of concepts that we have a fuzzy understanding of and for mapping their relations with other concepts. It is also a great tool for brainstorming our ideas.
I think it is a great venture given the assault on the use of AI coming from the academic framework that can often be summarised as “Professors discover cheating!”. They try to produce a priori arguments for the intrinsic uselessness and stultification of human-AI interaction.
These anti-AI academics are similar to the academics in Galileo’s time who refused to look through a telescope (this is something everyone knows) and who did so for excellent and, in the academic context of the day, quite valid reasons (something that few people today realise).
It is true that telescopes from the classical period produced hallucinations, as do AI today. The solution in both cases is not only gradually perfecting the instrument (if you wait for a perfect instrument you will die before getting to the discoveries you could have made), but also in taking time and testing the AIs capacities (and your own), its reponses, and your conclusions.
Applying these considerations to the Lectures on Lacan AI Study Companion, we can of course get excellent one-off answers (this is due to the excellent quality of the training material - Lacan’s writings and Samuel McCormick’s lectures), but if we keep the chat going we will pose better and better questions and get ever more intelligent responses - a real dialogue emerges.
Thanks for your thoughtful, responsive, and well-informed comment, Terence. As is so often the case, your telescopic insights cut through all the academic turbulence out there — and give me lots to consider. So glad you’re part of this intellectual community — and now our latest experiment as well!
Awesome! I've been asking the model all sorts of bizarre, super-obscure questions, and each of its replies has been eye-poppingly good. I especially appreciate the clickable citations it provides. Anyway, glad you're liking the model!
Glad you're liking it! Can't wait to see what you make of this thing -- and to continue training it on more materials this fall. Next up, our recent lecture series on S21 and La Troisième . . .
This is an amazing resource and deserves to be widely known and used. It is an excellent pedagogical tool for learning Lacanian ideas, explaining them clearly, and setting them in a theoretical context that helps clarify them. It is also good for sharpening our understanding of concepts that we have a fuzzy understanding of and for mapping their relations with other concepts. It is also a great tool for brainstorming our ideas.
I think it is a great venture given the assault on the use of AI coming from the academic framework that can often be summarised as “Professors discover cheating!”. They try to produce a priori arguments for the intrinsic uselessness and stultification of human-AI interaction.
These anti-AI academics are similar to the academics in Galileo’s time who refused to look through a telescope (this is something everyone knows) and who did so for excellent and, in the academic context of the day, quite valid reasons (something that few people today realise).
It is true that telescopes from the classical period produced hallucinations, as do AI today. The solution in both cases is not only gradually perfecting the instrument (if you wait for a perfect instrument you will die before getting to the discoveries you could have made), but also in taking time and testing the AIs capacities (and your own), its reponses, and your conclusions.
Applying these considerations to the Lectures on Lacan AI Study Companion, we can of course get excellent one-off answers (this is due to the excellent quality of the training material - Lacan’s writings and Samuel McCormick’s lectures), but if we keep the chat going we will pose better and better questions and get ever more intelligent responses - a real dialogue emerges.
Thanks for your thoughtful, responsive, and well-informed comment, Terence. As is so often the case, your telescopic insights cut through all the academic turbulence out there — and give me lots to consider. So glad you’re part of this intellectual community — and now our latest experiment as well!
Excellent! I wrote what I thought was a challenging question, and the assistant provided a detailed and comprehensive answer.
Awesome! I've been asking the model all sorts of bizarre, super-obscure questions, and each of its replies has been eye-poppingly good. I especially appreciate the clickable citations it provides. Anyway, glad you're liking the model!
This is fantastic !
Glad you're liking it! Can't wait to see what you make of this thing -- and to continue training it on more materials this fall. Next up, our recent lecture series on S21 and La Troisième . . .
Great work!
Right on, thank you! It's a work in progress, to be sure -- and truly an experiment, to say the least! -- so I'm grateful for your support.