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News
Date
September 14, 2023

Categorized
Technology

Tagged
cars, COSM, Electric vehicles, Technology}

The Benefits of Autonomous and Electric Vehicle Technology

_{Innovation has always created more opportunity, not less} _{News

September 14, 2023

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Technology}

In today’s featured video from a past COSM conference, Jay Richards interviews Tom Alberg, Founder, Madrona Venture Group and Co-chair of the ACES Northwest Network, about ACES’ efforts to bring Automated, Connected, Electric, and Shared vehicle technologies to the Puget Sound region. Alberg dismisses the idea that these new technologies will lead to job loss because innovation has always created more opportunity, not less. (REGISTER NOW FOR COSM 2023) COSM is an exclusive national summit on the converging technologies remaking the world as we know it. From artificial intelligence to 5G and WiFi6, from tokenized time to blockchain, from cloud computing to the quantum revolution, and from biotech to the nanotech revolution, COSM brings together some of the greatest minds Read More ›

3D Rendering Glowing Ai artificial intelligence technology Chipset CPU on circuit board. electronic and technology Concept.

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Author
News
Date
September 13, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence}

AI as a System of Innovation

_{What sectors might AI transform in the future?} _{News

September 13, 2023

2

Artificial Intelligence}

In today’s featured video from COSM 2022, Eric Schmidt explores the transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI) — from language to military applications, business, finance, energy, social media, and medicine. (REGISTER NOW FOR COSM 2023) COSM is an exclusive national summit on the converging technologies remaking the world as we know it. From artificial intelligence to 5G and WiFi6, from tokenized time to blockchain, from cloud computing to the quantum revolution, and from biotech to the nanotech revolution, COSM brings together some of the greatest minds of our time to explore how technology intersects with international competitiveness, investing, government regulation, freedom, and the triumph of the human spirit. The conference is targeted toward anyone seeking to peer into the future Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
September 13, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Blake Lemoine, ChatGPT, COSM 2022, Robert J. Marks, Sentience, YouTube}

Revisiting Marks, Lemoine, on AI and Consciousness

_{What is AI? In what sense can it be said to be "intelligent"? Could it ever be sentient, or conscious?} _{News

September 13, 2023

2

Artificial Intelligence}

AI experts differ on the capabilities of artificial intelligence, and where this technology is headed. Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
September 12, 2023

Categorized
Technology

Tagged
Andrew Clegg, FCC, federal government, Google, Mind Matters podcast, Radio communications, Robert J. Marks, spectrum}

A Google Engineer Talks to Mind Matters About the Radio Spectrum

_{The spectrum business goes to the highest bidder. But what problems does that pose in the long run?} _{News

September 12, 2023

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Technology}

The federal government determines how the radio spectrum is used and who can use it. Turns out, renting out the spectrum to private companies is a billion-dollar business. The spectrum business goes to the highest bidder. But what problems does that pose in the long run? Google engineer Andrew Clegg discusses this and more with Dr. Robert J. Marks and Austin Egbert in the latest episode of the Mind Matters podcast. Here’s Clegg speaking to some of these issues from the transcript: In the decades past, there were typically enough frequencies to go around for everybody. And so pretty much the first person who applied for a particular frequency or band or whatever, would be given that frequency. And that worked Read More ›

Starry night sky over sea and beach with man silhouette. man standing on sea beach under starry sky.

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Author
News
Date
September 12, 2023

Categorized
Cosmology

Tagged
aliens, Brian Keating, cosmology, cosmos, ET, Extraterrestrial civilizations (search), Joe Rogan, SETI, space}

Rogan and Astrophysicist Talk Aliens and UFOs

_{Are we really the only (intelligent) beings out here?} _{News

September 12, 2023

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Cosmology}

By David Klinghoffer Our astrophysicist friend Brian Keating from UC San Diego was on the Joe Rogan Experience — for three and a half hours, much as philosopher of science Stephen Meyer was recently. I’ve listened to the whole thing. Very interesting! And with shout-outs to Dr. Meyer on a couple of points that Dr. Keating offers for consideration: that religious faith prepared the way for modern science by teaching the intelligibility and order of nature, and that what really got Galileo in trouble was challenging not the Bible but Aristotle, who had in effect (but not literally) been embraced as a saint by the Catholic Church. Watch and listen here on Spotify. From Another World, or Our Own? The conversation is very wide-ranging, as Read More ›

Hand of businessman using smartphone chatting with chat bot, Chat with AI or Artificial Intelligence technology.

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Author
News
Date
September 11, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, College, education, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

ChatGPT is Losing Momentum

_{Is the "hype curve" starting to flatten out?} _{News

September 11, 2023

2

Artificial Intelligence}

ChatGPT’s traffic has declined for the third month in a row, according to Reuters. The Large Language Model (LLM) AI tool took the world by storm in November of 2022 when it was released by OpenAI, posing questions of academic integrity, and urging a host of tech giants to incorporate LLMs into their own platforms and search engines. Anna Tong writes, Worldwide desktop and mobile website visits to the ChatGPT website decreased by 3.2% to 1.43 billion in August, following approximately 10% drops from each of the previous two months. The amount of time visitors spent on the website has also been declining monthly since March, from an average of 8.7 minutes on site to 7 minutes on site in Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
September 11, 2023

Categorized
Science}

“Science” Journals Are Getting Less Trustworthy

_{Unless scientific journals set aside nonscientific agendas, public trust in them will continue to skydive} _{Wesley J. Smith

September 11, 2023

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Science}

Severing the discourse from true scientific objectivity could mean that legitimate research will be stifled. Read More ›

Medical Development Laboratory: Caucasian Female Scientist Looking Under Microscope, Analyzes Petri Dish Sample. Specialists Working on Medicine, Biotechnology Research in Advanced Pharma Lab

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Author
News
Date
September 10, 2023

Categorized
Technology

Tagged
Biotech, COSM, Discovery Institute, Free markets, Freedom, Jay Richards, Medicine}

Killing Diseases and Living Longer

_{Can innovations in biotechnology enhance and lengthen human life?} _{News

September 10, 2023

2

Technology}

Can innovations in biotechnology enhance and lengthen human life? This is question typical to the COSM Conference, where today’s leading voices in tech and science converge to discuss the potentials of the present and the vision of the future. Here, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards interviews Matt Scholz, CEO Of OISON Biotechnologies, on new approaches to killing disease and living longer. (REGISTER NOW FOR COSM 2023) COSM is an exclusive national summit on the converging technologies remaking the world as we know it. From artificial intelligence to 5G and WiFi6, from tokenized time to blockchain, from cloud computing to the quantum revolution, and from biotech to the nanotech revolution, COSM brings together some of the greatest minds of our Read More ›

Back view of man looking at alien invasion, UFO flying in the sky, concept of evidence and sighting, retro illustration. Generative AI

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Author
Gary Varner
Date
September 9, 2023

Categorized
Arts & Culture

Tagged
aliens, Amy Adams, Arrival, Culture, Extraterrestrial life, Jeremy Renner, Language, Movies and TV, science, The Walking Dead}

Arrival Review, Part 1

_{Nobody behaves like they should for the first ten minutes. They act, dare I say, alien.} _{Gary Varner

September 9, 2023

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Arts & Culture}

Arrival is an interesting movie. It’s well-shot, well-acted, and well-written. The trouble is the script makes some strange choices in the beginning and I just wasn’t persuaded by the movie’s twist at the end. The story starts out with a montage where Louise is raising her daughter, but the child tragically dies of some unknown illness, presumably cancer. The viewer is led to conclude that this is a flashback, but if one listens to the monologue Louise delivers, she says plainly that she’s explaining when the child’s story begins, if there are beginning at all, which is something she no longer believes. This basically means that the entire movie is a flashback, but the viewer is not supposed to notice Read More ›

the young guy playing an acoustic guitar. Shooting backlit

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
September 8, 2023

Categorized
Arts & Culture

Tagged
AI, art, Culture, DC, Jordan Peterson, music, Oliver Anthony, Politics, Robots, YouTube}

Oliver Anthony, Music, and Human Exceptionalism

_{Honest music speaks to the heart and brings us closer together.} _{Peter Biles

September 8, 2023

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Arts & Culture}

If you’ve been online at all for the last few weeks, chances are you’ve come across headlines about the folk/country singer Oliver Anthony, whose song “Rich Men North of Richmond” went viral in August. The song, a broad critique of elite power in Washington D.C., (Democrat and Republican) has gained both applause and fierce critique, but for the most part, seems to have deeply resonated with the general American public. Psychologist Jordan B. Peterson recently had Anthony on his podcast, discussing music, entrepreneurship, and virality. One thing is clear about Anthony’s songs: they’re honest, and people are attracted to that. Peterson noted in their conversation that authenticity is a sign of brilliance in artists, and how that sort of honesty Read More ›

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Author
David Hsing
Date
September 8, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Consciousness, Panpsychism}

Artificial Consciousness Remains Impossible (Part 3)

_{The claim that all things are conscious (including AI) misunderstands the meaning of the term} _{David Hsing

September 8, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Even if panpsychism is true, the subsequent possible claim that “all things are conscious” is still false because it commits a fallacy of division. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
September 7, 2023

Categorized
Technocracy

Tagged
Assisted Suicide, bioethics, Doctors, Freedom, healthcare, Medicine, Technocracy, Wesley J. Smith}

The Technocracy Continues to Grow

_{We live in a time where individual freedom is under material threat from an emerging technocracy} _{Wesley J. Smith

September 7, 2023

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Technocracy}

We live in a time where the most important policy and personal decisions are going to be made not by us but for us by “the experts.” Read More ›

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Author
David Hsing
Date
September 6, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Can AI be concious, ChatGPT, Coding, Consciousness, David Hsing, Decision, Funtionalism, Machine Learning, mind, Noncomputability}

Artificial Consciousness Remains Impossible (Part 2)

_{A machine no more “does things on its own” than a catapult flings by itself.} _{David Hsing

September 6, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Randomness is a red herring when it comes to serving as an indicator of consciousness. Read More ›

Robert J. Marks on Great Minds with Michael Medved

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Author
News
Date
September 6, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, mind matters, Non-Computable You (book), Noncomputability, Podcast, Robert J. Marks}

Revisiting “Non-Computable You”

_{New podcast episode reviews the key ideas and insights of the book "Non-Computable You"} _{News

September 6, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

If you’re a regular reader of Mind Matters, you’ve probably heard us applaud and discuss the book by computer scientist and professor Robert J. Marks, Non-Computable You: What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will. The book is well worth reading and sheds much needed insights on our current technological moment where AI is either seen as the “greatest thing ever” or the tool that will enslave and destroy humanity, Terminator style. However, if you’re more of an audiobook kind of person, maybe you’ll just want to listen to a new podcast episode in which Dr. Marks discusses the key themes of his book with various hosts. You can listen to the podcast or download it for free here: Why Read More ›

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Date
September 5, 2023

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Bob Metcalfe, COSM, Ethernet, Jay Richards, Metcalfe's law, Technology}

Metcalfe’s Law and the Ethernet

_{The man who helped create the Ethernet is speaking at this year’s star studded COSM conference} _{News

September 5, 2023

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The winner of the prestigious 2022 Turing Award, Bob Metcalfe paved the way for billions of computers and now smartphones to be connected to the Internet. Read More ›

AI, Machine learning, Hands of robot and human touching big data of Global network connection, Internet and digital technology, Science and artificial intelligence digital technologies of futuristic.

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Author
David Hsing
Date
September 4, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Consciousness, Information Theory, intelligence, Machines, Materialism, Panpsychism}

Artificial Consciousness Remains Impossible (Part 1)

_{The cherished fiction of conscious machines is an impossibility} _{David Hsing

September 4, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Artificial intelligence that appears to be conscious is a Consciousness Room, an imitation with varying degrees of success. Read More ›

Young anxious woman lying in bed staring at smartphone screen at night, reading about depression symptoms in internet, phone addicted female can not stop scrolling news media before bedtime. Anxiety.

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
September 4, 2023

Categorized
Addiction

Tagged
addiction, Cal Newport, dopamine, Focus, social media, Work, YouTube}

Cal Newport: Overstimulation Is Ruining Your Life

_{Turns out the solution is simple: don't use things that overstimulate you.} _{Peter Biles

September 4, 2023

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Addiction}

"Don't use things that cause overstimulation," Newport says. "The dopamine system is powerful, so don't give it the targets it's going to fire up for." Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
September 3, 2023

Categorized
Medicine and Health

Tagged
COVID 19 censorship, Heterodoxy, Medicine, National Review, science, transgenderism, Wesley J. Smith}

We Need to Keep Medicine “Evidence-Based”

_{A new approach seems to be arriving — so-called science-based medicine. What is the difference?} _{Wesley J. Smith

September 3, 2023

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Medicine and Health}

Trust must be earned, not imposed. Information gatekeepers can be wrong. The danger of censorship in the name of “science” is growing. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
September 2, 2023

Categorized
Arts & Culture

Tagged
Amazon, Andy Crouch, Down Syndrome, Google, Meta, Netflix, The Lord of the Rings, The Social Dilemma, Trisomy 21, Wesley J. Smith}

The Life We’re Looking For: A Book Review

_{Andy Crouch's book on technology and human flourishing calls us to resist the urge to control and open ourselves up to deep relationships} _{Peter Biles

September 2, 2023

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Arts & Culture}

Every so often a book comes along that puts a finger on the cultural moment in a way that directs, elucidates, convicts, and encourages. Read More ›

a robot or a woman half a robot with mechanical technological body parts and upgrades, transhumanism cyborg and artificial intelligence,

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Author
Gary Varner
Date
September 2, 2023

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Transhumanism

Tagged
AI, hollywood, Humans, Robots, transhumanism, TV and Movies, Westworld}

Wrapping Up the Westworld Series

_{Ultimately, the moral of the story is transhumanism} _{Gary Varner

September 2, 2023

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Arts & Culture, Transhumanism}

The first time I watched Westworld, I remember enjoying it, but upon revisiting the series, my opinion of it has dropped a great deal. There are a variety of problems. First, it’s a bait and switch. It teases the idea of showing how robots can come to life, and it plays with your expectations for most of the series. It even goes as far as to discuss theories like The Bicameral Mind, and The Turing Test. Then, in the last episode, it confirms what the viewer has been slowly growing to suspect. The robots had been coming to life the entire time, and Ford had been wiping their memories. The show says that Ford programmed the robots to experience everything Read More ›