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Podcast: A New Test to Measure Understanding in AI Models

The Turing Test 2.0 is based on the view that intelligence is the ability to extract new knowledge from existing information and apply it consistently across time and context

The Turing Test 2.0 mirrors the way good teachers test students — not asking for memorized answers but for concepts to be applied in unfamiliar situations.

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Science Cancellation Continues: Meet the Latest Victim

Marty Rowland, an editor at the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, has been fired for publishing an article arguing the carbon dioxide and a warming climate are not problems

Nothing great is at stake in what happened to Kimmel. In the domination of science by ideology, by the myth of “settled science,” the stakes couldn’t be more profound. 

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If China Wins the Blockchain Derby, a Global Chill Will Follow

COSM 2025: While the West fusses about cryptocurrencies, China aims at building a blockchain to control the global internet. And few pay attention…

DoD Chief Strategy Officer Jinyoung Englund will be speaking on what control by China would mean and whether the United States can catch up.

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Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Gets Canceled by the Munich Center

Her parting words: “A lot of research [in] the foundations of physics is now pseudocience. It hasn't followed the scientific method for decades.”

It seems unlikely that the only reason that the Munich Center parted ways with Hossenfelder is bad language in her posts. Is she uncomfortably correct?

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The fundamental mistake programmers made in designing AIs

Is the error fundamental to that type of system? The company argues that the problem is fixable but just how easy will that be?

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Hundreds of Google workers fired after lodging complaints

This scenario (squabbling over low dollars) is consistent with the firm not making as much money off AI as it had hoped to.

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And Sci Fi Thought AI Was Going To… Take Over?

Here are some non-hype news briefs from the world of the supposed AI takeover that could help us separate fact from fiction

From recent news: ● “AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies” Down? The US Census Bureau conducts a biweekly survey of 1.2 million firms, and one question is whether a business has used AI tools such as machine learning, natural language processing, virtual agents or voice recognition to help produce goods or services in the past two weeks. Recent data by firm size shows that AI adoption has been declining among companies with more than 250 employees, see chart below. Torsten Sløk, Apollo Chief Economist, September 7, 2025 Apollo is a coaching firm for investors. Currently, unemployment is up but it’s still more likely to be due to traditional issues than “A hot bot got my slot!” However, some Read More ›

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Measuring Machine Intelligence Using Turing Test 2.0

Podcast: Georgios Mappouras’s updated approach asks whether machines can go beyond imitation to produce new knowledge

Mappouras’s General Intelligence Threshold offers a test question: Can the system generate insights that were not directly programmed into it?

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Charlie Kirk Shooting: A Reader Who Lives Nearby Reflects

"Our kids had friends at the event on the university campus. My son's brother-in-law is a police officer who was on scene"

The local elementary school went on lockdown due to the killer running, possibly in their direction, who was assumed to still be armed.

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Baboons as the New Humans: The Disney Effect at work

As a recent review in Science shows, the Disney Effect allows even research scientists to ignore the differences between animal minds and the human mind

The Arrogant Ape points its finger at humanity. But in truth, the arrogance lies in denying the obvious — and nearly universal — judgment of humanity.

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Hal Philipp: From Touchscreens to Tough Love on Wellness

In a podcast with computer science professor Robert Marks, the gifted inventor makes a case for a simpler, stronger life via nutritional awareness

His principles are simple: Eat foods our bodies historically recognize, avoid manufactured shortcuts, and stop eating long before you’re stuffed.

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Sean McDowell and Gary Habermas Discuss Near-Death Experiences

Habermas tells his host that the last few years have brought out hundreds of new documented cases

Readers interested in NDEs can also read Habermas’s chapter on the topic from Minding the Brain, excerpted online, at Mind Matters News.

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Flash!: Bigger computers do not just start acting like minds

If this trend continues, amid the nonsense, there will be more reality-based thinking about AI that is more easily accessible than it used to be.

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Michael Egnor at The Stream: How Materialists Refute Themselves

In Part 3, he also talks about how fellow health care personnel and patients have responded to The Immortal Mind, which makes a case for the immortal soul

People I work with in the operating room and clinics and even patients tell me that they read our book and really liked it. They are glad we are speaking up.

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At COSM 2025: When AI Meets Tinseltown… Look Out!

Superagent Ari Emanuel will be back at COSM this year, to talk about how AI is reimagining Hollywood

It’s too soon to tell where AI Hollywood will fall between a predicted Armageddon and a Golden Age. But Emanuel’s opinion would surely be important to know.

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In Connecticut, the Horrors of AI Descend with Full Force

AI as “friends” and “confidants”? David Klinghoffer warns that this way of talking and thinking needs to be recognized as encouraging delusion

As John West writes, “essentially OpenAI is using its technology as a replacement for human counselors and advisors.”

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Michael Egnor at The Stream: How the Mind Transcends the Brain

In his interview with John Zmirak, Dr. Egnor points out that epileptic seizures do not involve abstract thought because that type of thought is not simply a product of the brain

He noted that pioneer neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield started out as a materialist but became a dualist as a result of discovering things like these.

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