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Computer Engineer Robert Marks Says AI will Never Match Humans

But do the sophisticated new chatbots prove Marks wrong? Turns out, he is writing a new book to address that
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Socialism’s Most Pressing Problem: The Human Mind

Markets, prices, and profits do what socialist central planners cannot: coordinate millions of independent human minds
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AI ‘Claude’ Can Never Be a Person

A rabbi noted that if Claude is a person, Anthropic is engaging in slavery that must stop
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Sentiment analysis and opinion mining concept with emoji faces and digital feedback icons on a laptop and smartphone, representing customer emotions, online review analysis, User experience insights.

Seeing Chatbots as People Is Not New. Some See Cars That Way

It's actually a natural tendency but it certainly comes with risks
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A man on a romantic date with a robot, girlfriend chatbot, romance and technology

Does a Decline in Reading Mean a Decline in Thinking?

Thinking is natural to humans. But the current decline in reading may signal a worrisome decline in a particular TYPE of thinking
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People are standing inside building looking at mobile phone screens

Prize-Winning French Author Accused of Using AI; Furor Erupts

The questions the story raises are mostly not about the End of Writing
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Robotic hand reaching out of laptop screen to begin typing generative AI writing work. Bloggers and ghostwriters are being supplemented by technology

Why Do Market Economies Succeed? Minds Are the Key Driver

Millions of minds — and billions of choices, tradeoffs, and expectations, as people try to improve their situations
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Are They Nuts Down in the Valley? Or Just Pretending?

Preaching the machine god apocalypse sounds a bit much when the real problem is serious security lapses
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Digital Dilemma: Transition from Ethical AI to Corrupted Rogue AI

Right Now, Science Seems To Be Growing Stale…

If we judge by the number of dead end controversies... And this is just when we might expect it to be booming
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Slime Molds and the Growing Controversy Around “Intelligence”

How they solve problems with no brain, no nervous system, no conventional sense organs is creating challenges in defining intelligence
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Bright yellow slime mold branching vein network over dark rotting wood

Machines “Chose” to Defeat Hugging Face Security, Steal its Data

Just the Facts: 1,200 swarming AIs don’t need consciousness to wreak havoc – just network connectivity and goals
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