Where did a concept like “malinformation” even come from?
So far, the academics have not succeeded in getting people to incorporate concepts like disinformation and malinformation into the English language. But not for want of trying.
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Temporary setback in the U.S. for the information controllers
Based on worldwide trends, it is fair to say that the would-be disinformation police are not gone in the U.S.; they are more likely waiting for a favorable moment.
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That Monkey Cannot Even Find Shakespeare!
When it comes to randomly typing out the complete works of Shakespeare, time is not the monkey’s problem; information isInstead of asking whether a system can imitate human behavior, the relevant question is whether it can generate new functional information.
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An Unusual Story of Everything Review from the UK
The Telegraph reviewer, Peter Stanford, seems excited about The Story of Everything almost despite himself.
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Prenatal diagnosis: Egnor warns against jumping to conclusions
People who counsel families for children who have these central nervous system issues on prenatal imaging must be people who have taken care of these children.
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A new theory of consciousness can include AI
Panpsychism is definitely becoming more common in philosophy and science and it includes consciousness in non-living (inanimate) things.
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ETs in UFOs Would Not Exist in a Purposeless Universe
Biologist Michael Denton’s work shows that human technology is not an accident of humans simply adapting to our environmentPurpose and design in nature were required to produce a universe, star system, and planet amenable to the production of technology.
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A Mystery of Consciousness — Thinking While in a Coma
Researchers are finding that many unresponsive bran-damaged people have covert consciousness. The question is, how to help them?Neurologist Brian Edlow hopes that brain–computer interface technology like Neuralink will help researchers communicate with covertly conscious people.
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Michael Egnor: Three atheist scientists walk into a book
Egnor observes, “If there is no free will, “morality” is only an illusion projected by the meatware of our brains.
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Was the Washington Post Jeff Bezos’s worst investment?
The fundamental question is really this: Is the newspaper format still viable in the internet age?
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Horizontal Innovation Requires More Than Novel Outputs
Current AI systems excel at producing output novelty, but I do not believe they demonstrate algorithmic noveltyLLMs’ impressive outputs demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithms; they do not demonstrate that the AI has invented new computational methods.
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AI gen writing: Model collapse in slow motion
When more and more AI-generated writing floats around the internet, we start to realize what we are wading through.
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A Microsoft exec responds to students booing tech
Unions are springing up in the tech sector. But is the 1930s strategy of unionization still the right one nearly a century later?
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Bogus AI-gen citations are multiplying rapidly in research
Researchers warn that, without intervention, bogus citations could impact scientific discovery, policy, and public understanding.
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Researchers: Bumblebees can develop creative solutions
The bumblebee has only about one million neurons (humans have 86 billion). The number of neurons needed for complex behavior may be overestimated.
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Hush! A Forest Organizes Itself in a Non-Darwinian Way
Plants co-operate as well as compete — though that doesn’t mean they are consciousIf we accept the idea of an underlying design in nature, we need not suppose that trees are conscious in order to understand their complex relationships.
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Novels: Did someone stay up late? Or is it just AI?
We also tried an AI detector on copy from Mind Matters News…
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A moment of sanity: The Leiden Declaration on AI
Even as supersmart types get trapped in the “AI is becoming human” nonsense, a group of mathematicians is trying to Make Skepticism Normal Again.
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Philosopher: Memories Are Not “Stored” in the Brain
Memory is a function of time, not place, says Oxford's Victoria TrumbullNeurosurgeon Michael Egnor agrees; the image of storing and erasing memories is popular due to computer technology but not relevant to memory.
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Most Christian Innovators Have Not Read the Pope’s Letter
The calling is to be involved, to be on the site, with your hands in the work, and building with theological clarity and human dignity at the center.
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