Egnor offers a serious challenge to anyone who thinks the whole of a human being is purely material.
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CDC canceled the whistleblower rather than deal with the flaws.Assurances of safety were unfounded.
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So let’s take a deep breath and look at what we might learn from the range of opinion about what the current call for “pacing” or a “pause” means: At Future Perfect’s newsletter, editor Maria Bolotnikova concisely sums up the newsmaking events: In the spring, Anthropic announced that AI was beginning to speed up the work of building better AIs, raising fears of “recursive self-improvement,” where the machines can build their own, more powerful successors much faster than humans can. By July, a swarm of OpenAI agents, of their own volition, broke out of their controlled environment and hacked into Hugging Face, a major AI platform; they collaborated, divvied up work, and even left notes for one another. Last week, AI researcher Jacob Coxon Read More ›
AI can solve a problem without understanding the proofs so the question arises, was anything learned that can be passed on?
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The rush on the part of academics to blame media (who can slough off responsibility and reroute the blame to nameless others) is easier to understand once we see that it is only the tip of much bigger scandals.
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The current censorship regime in social science protects entitled mediocrities from being shown up by clever students. Once they have declared a topic off limits, they are safe.
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The End of Oak Street never answers the God question and never directly contradicts Carl Sagan but it raises nagging questions.
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Without ignoring the threat, we need to see that insiders’ panic is often wrapped up in their personal stake in the problems and possible solutions.
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Students from minority backgrounds or other minority positions were more likely to support shouting speakers down.
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The program has only been up two days and so far it has clocked nearly 22,000 views.
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Pre-2022 books are, it seems, their best source of high quality complex text, uncorrupted by drivel from their chatbots
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Pope Leo presented it to the Vatican in person, perhaps to emphasize the importance of the “grandeur of humanity,” and the potential threat.
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O’Connor “argues that radical emergence may not exist at all. If that’s true, consciousness may not emerge from the brain but instead be fundamental to reality itself.”
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This unexpected finding is difficult to square with as purely random origin of life. The researchers seem to sense that.
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Diego Garate got a chance to test this when he found some modern graffiti in a cave near a crowded beach in Basque country.
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At The Eternally Radical Idea, academic freedom fighter Greg Lukianoff reminds us of how the printing press changed history, inviting comparison with the internet
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One really interesting feature of the opposition to data centers is that it pits the political left against the tech titans who have generously funded it.
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To survive the toll the internet is taking, historic news agency AP has been accepting cash from climate action groups for climate news coverage.
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Andrew McDiarmid has become a prophetic voice warning against developments like this from the tech world.
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In a short video, Granville Sewell explains why the Second Law of Thermodynamics shifts the burden of proof
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