It's relatively commonly recognised that AI is a somewhat misleading umbrella term that covers a variety of different scientific and non-scientific projects.
In a new preprint, I articulate, defend, and illustrate a central scientific project for AI that is somewhat neglected or vaguely recognised, which I call AI-as-exploration (taking the cue from a recent paper by @olivia, @Iris et al).
Interesting take by François Chollet on prompting in LLMs: we can see prompts as search queries for finding an appropriate 'vector program' amid the extremely large number of such programs learnt by the LLM.
Prompt-engineering is then a matter of finding the best queries for what we want to achieve, akin to what we do when we use search engines.
Can anyone recommend a good, and preferably relatively recent, textbook or anthology on the #PhilosophyOfAI? Ideally this should include discussion of ethical issues and be suitable for undergraduate study. Thanks! 🙏