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All Souls exam questions and the limits of machine reasoning
The world's most eccentric exam is newly relevant in the age of AI
I have written before about the historical research abilities of language models, which are getting quite proficient at tasks like translation, text transcription, image analysis, and making thematic and conceptual links between genres, time periods, and settings — all very useful tools for historians: It is literally impossible for me to say, because your understanding of each of them is profoundly shaped by your life experience, your sensory perception, your unconscious, your childhood, and a million other things grounded in actually operating in a physical world. According to Wikipedia: “Given that Chile and Argentina have historically successfully established their border based on the uti possidetis iuris principle of international law, the Sánchez de la Hoz grant forms part of their arguments for territorial claims in Antarctica.”
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