Denyse O'Leary
A Closer Look at Google’s Search Engine Bias
If Google’s CEO honestly believes that there is no political bias, that is, in itself, a big part of the problem
What Others Are Saying About the New Google Insider’s Revelations
The documents' authenticity is not in dispute. What to do about them is another matter
Whistleblower: Google Told Cops To Do a “Wellness Check” on Him
He can be seen doing a sort of perp walk on the video; some portions transcribed hereIn the documents Vorhies unearthed, Google seemed to be "intending to scope the information landscape so that they could create their own version of what was objectively true."
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Is Google a Cult? Or Does It Just Act That Way?
Project Veritas announces that a new rebel Googler has sent nearly 1000 documents on algorithm bias to the DOJWhile we prepare a news story on Zach Vorhies' revelations, it may be worth asking why one of the world’s largest companies has developed what appears to be the atmosphere of a political cult.
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Elephants Who Fly — or Become “Persons” — Are Magic
Okay, it's impossible. But then why do thinkers who disbelieve the one believe the other?For decades, researchers were transfixed with the idea of humanizing great apes by raising them among humans and teaching them language. Emerging from the ruins and recriminations of the collapse, philosophy prof Don Ross has a new idea: Let’s start with elephants instead.
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Why did Watson think Toronto was in the U.S.A.?
How that happened tells us a lot about what AI can and can’t do, to this dayStrictly speaking, the answer Watson spit out was "What is Toronto?????", which does sound distinctly less than certain. But the programmers had chosen not to program in the option of saying, “I don’t know.”
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Google Engineer Reveals Search Engine Bias
He found Google pretty neutral in 2014; the bias started with the US 2016 electionThe algorithms—the series of commands to computers—“don’t write themselves,” Coppola says. People who have their own opinions may write them into an algorithm, knowingly or otherwise.
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Jordan Peterson’s New “Thinkspot” Takes Shape
Analysts ask, can his proposed rules work?What about the problem of expecting people to pay? Perhaps most people are so used to getting their social media for free for the same reasons as turkeys get their feed for free—because they’re the product—that they willingly submit to censorship?
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Chinese Technocracy Surges Ahead with AI Surveillance
So what do the reservations expressed, about “the soul” and “love,” really mean?Both big tech entrepreneurs Kai-Fu Lee and Jack Ma seem to believe in souls but do not believe that souls can be trusted with freedom, the way governments can.
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Researchers: Apes Are Just Like Us!
And we’re not doing the right things to make them start behaving that way…In 2011, we were told in Smithsonian Magazine, “‘Talking’ apes are not just the stuff of science fiction; scientists have taught many apes to use some semblance of language.” Have they? If so, why has it all subsided? What happened?
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Could Machine Learning Decipher Lost Languages?
It gives us new search powers, based on perennial facts of languageAn endless variety of word games derives from the fact that only certain combinations and orderings of words can be correct. Machine learning applies vast resources to cracking the code.
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Scientists: Plants Are NOT Conscious!
No, but why do serious plant scientists even need to make that clear? What has happened?Quite simply, the need to see humans as equivalent to animals has now spread to the need to see us as equivalent to plants.
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1984 is 70 years old yet still feels current
Did Orwell prove a better techno-prophet than Huxley did in Brave New World?In 1949, Huxley thought he was closer to the mark than his former student Orwell was. Later generations have tussled over the question, with revealing results.
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Believing in a Purposeful World Is Good Mental Health!
Perhaps fine-tuning of the universe should be taught in school as a mental health initiativeThe massive evidence for design in our universe raises a question: Why isn’t the fine-tuning of the universe taught in school, not as a support for any specific religion but rather as a connection with reality, as support for mental health?
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“Brilliant Vision” from a Century Ago Foretells Today’s Internet
In E. M. Forster's dystopia, people interact only through the MachineIn a wholly materialist environment, science and other disciplines have, by preference, ceased to explore anything but their own ideas.
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Social Media Censorship? Governments Weigh the Options
The United States may be going in the opposite direction from other Western countries
There Is a Glitch in the Description of DNA as “Software”
In contemporary culture, we are asked to believe - in an impressive break with observed reality - that the code wrote itselfMainstream studies are funded in order to find out why much of the public doubts a materialist account of our origins. Despite the immense implausibility of that account, in the light of evidence, studies are not funded in order to find out why anyone does believe it. Why is that?
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Did Big Social Media Kill Traditional Media?
In some ways, traditional media have co-operated with their own demiseThe problems created by new media monopolies won't be resolved by propping up traditional media, any more than modern traffic congestion would be resolved by the horse-drawn wagon.
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Jordan Peterson to Found New Free Speech Platform
Thinkspot is being developed as a free speech alternative to Facebook, YouTube, and PatreonHis proposal coincides with several recent Big Social Media decisions that have raised eyebrows.
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