An Atheist Argues Against Reason
And thinks it is the reasonable thing to doJustin Smith is leading the way to the abandonment of rationality. There’s not a shred of reason in his essay.
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Philosopher Argues, Human Reason Is Inferior to Animal Reactions
Smith offers to resolve the problem of human exceptionality by dethroning reason
Autopilot Is NOT Just Another Word for “Asleep at the Wheel”
As a recent fatal accident in Florida shows, even sober, attentive drivers often put too much trust into Tesla’s Autopilot system, with disastrous results
Google’s “Civil War” Is a First For the Big Tech Industry
Not the sort of first to rejoice market analysts’ hearts
Could AI Authentically Create Anything?
Brendan Dixon: The first question posed to me as an artist was,“What are you trying to say?”
Younger Thinkers Now Argue That Free Will Is Real
The laws of physics do not rule it out, they say
What One Thing Do AI, Evolution, and Entrepreneurship All Need?
They all need an input of creativity to make things happen.
George Gilder: Why Student Debt Should Simply Be Wiped Out
Universities are preparing students to resent, not join, the new decentralized economy
Why AI Fails To Actually Create Things
Only one of the traits du Sautoy suggests is an essential part of creativity
George Gilder: Why Does Google Seem To Be Having a Corporate Nervous Breakdown?
Gilder tells Forbes that its whole culture is “kind of self-defeating and wrong.”
Why AI Appears To Create Things
When AlphaGo made a winning move, it exhibited no more creative insight than when it played pedestrian moves
George Gilder: Why Entrepreneurship Can’t Just Be Automated
In business, an entrepreneur is the “oracle,” the one element that cannot be programmed or computed
We Need a Better Test for True AI Intelligence
Better than Turing or Lovelace. The difficulty is that intelligence, like randomness, is mathematically undefinable
Are we risking a planetary AI intelligence explosion?
Or are our problems with AI the usual boring stuff we prefer to avoid?
Maybe the robot will do you a favor and snatch your job
The historical pattern is that drudgery gets automated, not creativity
Quell the cell and kids do well?
That sounds simplistic but it worked at a girls’ school in New Zealand
A Critic of the Evangelical Statement on AI Misunderstands the Issues
On the question of moral responsibility, Dr. Swamidass seems to misunderstand the Statement entirely
Beyond the Google Search
Today's search technology may provide us with an "answer" we did not work for and won't remember
If Social Robots Could Cry, They’d Need Plenty of Tissues For This One
The spate of recent failures of social robot firms prompts a question: Are developers listening to markets?
