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Chatbot in a modern GPU card 3D rendering
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brief
News
Date
November 29, 2024
Categorized
Large Language Models (LLMs)
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AI: Gary Marcus on driving the cost of bullshit to zero

News
November 29, 2024
3
Large Language Models (LLMs)
The concern is that chatbots, regurgitating the internet, might greatly increase information without increasing accurate information by much at all. Read More ›
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Female robot face, Artificial intelligence concept. Generative AI
Type
brief
Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 27, 2024
Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind
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Philosopher warns of social conflict over AI consciousness

Denyse O'Leary
November 27, 2024
3
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind
London School of Economics philosophy professor Jonathan Birch thinks many will oppose the exploitation of conscious AI. Read More ›
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Concept of propaganda and fake news, TV addiction. Sheepd watching TV in dark room. Politicians manipulate the population.
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brief
News
Date
November 27, 2024

Vast decline in traditional TV viewership led by Gen Z

News
November 27, 2024
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Uncategorized
The key shift, of course, is away from top-down, more corporate-directed media to bottom-up, more consumer-directed media. Read More ›
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Futuristic and sci-fi human android portrait with pcb metallic skin and binary code green background. AI, IT, technology, robotics, science, transhumanism 3D rendering illustration concepts.
Type
brief
News
Date
November 25, 2024
Categorized
Transhumanism

Neuroscientist: Silicon Valley transhumanism is a false religion

News
November 25, 2024
3
Transhumanism
Àlex Gómez-Marín says that transhumanists want to “have their scientistic secular cake and let their pseudo-religion eat it too” Read More ›
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Social media and digital online concept, woman using smart phone. The concept of living on vacation and playing social media. Social Distancing ,Working From Home concept.
Type
brief
Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 25, 2024
Categorized
Censorship, Media, Politics

We are all the media now, whether we like it or not

Denyse O'Leary
November 25, 2024
3
Censorship, Media, Politics
It’s not even clear that relying on legacy media is a better way to be well-informed any more than citizen journalism is. Read More ›
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AI Chatbot intelligent digital customer service application concept, computer mobile application uses artificial intelligence chatbots automatically respond online messages to help customers instantly
Type
brief
News
Date
November 22, 2024
Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Media, Relationships
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Can you fire or sue an AI employee? Or break up with a chatbot?

News
November 22, 2024
3
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Media, Relationships
For a number of people, getting AI to do things that would otherwise be done by humans is not working out as planned. A couple of recent examples... Read More ›
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dachsund dog portrait studio looking up.
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brief
News
Date
November 20, 2024
Categorized
Animal mind, Human exceptionalism
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Philosopher: Do animals have the same rights as humans?

News
November 20, 2024
2
Animal mind, Human exceptionalism

At Skeptic Reading Room, South Korean philosopher and animal rights activist Seong-Han Kim offers some thoughts. He starts out with the observation that South Korea recently banned the consumption of dogs as a food. The idea is not new. It’s been illegal in the United States to sell dogs or cats as food since 2018. China also bans the practice. Read More ›

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Social distance concept. keep spaced between each chairs make separate for social distancing, increasing physical space between people to avoid spreading illness during transmission of COVID-19. 3D
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brief
Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 20, 2024
Categorized
Medicine and Health, Science
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Post-COVID, trust in science said to be on the rise

Denyse O'Leary
November 20, 2024
2
Medicine and Health, Science
The article doesn’t really get into the question of why public trust fell so much during the COVID years. Perhaps an anecdote will help. Read More ›
Type
brief
Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 12, 2024
Categorized
Philosophy, Science
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Why science is not good evidence for atheism

Denyse O'Leary
November 12, 2024
2
Philosophy, Science

Fr. Patrick Gorevan (St. Patrick’s Maynooth) offers some thoughts on God and science at Australia’s MercatorNet. He is discussing a recent book, Science at the Doorstep to God (Ignatius 2023) by Fr. Robert Spitzer: How about the extraordinary and unlikely fine-tuning which was needed for life to emerge? Sir Fred Hoyle, an adamant atheist, after discovering the need for exceedingly Read More ›

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Close-up image of a from an ATM Machine.
Type
brief
News
Date
November 12, 2024
Categorized
Business and Finance
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Debanking: Suddenly, you do not have access to money

News
November 12, 2024
2
Business and Finance

Many people think that “debanking” is the sort of thing that could only happen to international criminals or truckers in Canada who protested government-sponsored panic measures around COVID. As Ottawa-based Rupa Subramanya reports at The Free Press, the people who think so are mistaken: Former first lady Melania Trump alleges in her new memoir that both she and her son, Read More ›