Questions for William J. Rapaport

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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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.