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Does information theory support design in nature?
William Dembski makes a convincing case, using accepted information theory principles relevant to computer science
George Gilder explains what’s wrong with “Google Marxism”
In discussion with Mark Levin, host of Life, Liberty & Levin
Do we just imagine design in nature?
Or is seeing design fundamental to discovering and using nature’s secrets?
A Short Argument Against the Materialist Account of the Mind
You can simply picture yourself eating a chocolate ice cream sundae.
Does brain stimulation research challenge free will?
If we can be forced to want something, is the will still free?
Hacks damage Facebook, kill Google+
The internet changes everything. For example, it makes the Big Guys more vulnerable, not less vulnerable, than bit players
Did AI teach itself to “not like” women?
No, the program did not teach itself anything. But the situation taught the company something important about what we can safely automate.Back in 2014, it was a “holy grail” machine learning program, developed in Scotland, that would sift through online resumes, using a one-to-five star rating system and cull the top five of 100, saving time and money. Within a year, a problem surfaced: It was “not rating candidates for software developer jobs and other technical posts in a gender-neutral way.”
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The Spiritual Side of a Digital Society
Spiritual issues surface when software is everywhere
Does your brain construct your conscious reality? Part II
In a word, no. Your brain doesn't "think"; YOU think, using your brain
Does your brain construct your conscious reality? Part I
A reply to computational neuroscientist Anil Seth's recent TED talk
I, Robot, am gathering dust in the sales room …
Why do robotics experts think that customers will warm to robots because they look like people?
Google boss quits, writes satirical novel
The novel is said to be so far-fetched that it captures the environment
Remember those awful Seventies TV ads?
The new “attention economy” killed that kind of advertising. But what now?
People-friendly robots company shuts down
The “cobots,” robots that can work with people, got the pink slip—for now
Who built AI? You did, mostly
Along with millions of others, you are providing free training data
Is Free Will a Dangerous Myth?
The denial of free will is a much more dangerous myth
Knowledge is power, sort of…
If that’s ALL knowledge is, the resulting science is bound to be limited, says Michael Egnor
Deep Learning won’t solve AI
AlphaGo pioneer: We need “another dozen or half-a-dozen breakthroughs”