Ultimately, he wants more democratic control of AI though just what that might mean is unclear. Most of the AI apocalypses aren’t going to happen anyway because failure is the price people pay for divorcing reality.
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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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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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TV is a dying industry. The internet is not so timebound as TV and it is much more interactive.
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Many people, for example, do not realize that age-verification laws, which sound virtuous, require monitoring everyone’s usage of AI at home, not just that of minors.
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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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Most of us are hypocrites for social peace. But we tend to abandon hypocrisy when things start to really get out of hand.
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Panpsychism is definitely becoming more common in philosophy and science and it includes consciousness in non-living (inanimate) things.
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Egnor observes, “If there is no free will, “morality” is only an illusion projected by the meatware of our brains.
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The fundamental question is really this: Is the newspaper format still viable in the internet age?
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When more and more AI-generated writing floats around the internet, we start to realize what we are wading through.
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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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Researchers warn that, without intervention, bogus citations could impact scientific discovery, policy, and public understanding.
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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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The main concern with glacier rights is the inevitable erosion of what human rights mean. Ungrounded in reality, they come to mean everything, anything, and ultimately, nothing.
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We also tried an AI detector on copy from Mind Matters News…
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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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The red flags were pretty obvious, actually. We should keep this in mind when we hear commentators extol the wonders of AI in health care.
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If mathematics is discovered, not invented, the foundation of our universe is abstract, not concrete.
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The very fact that a respectable discussion is beginning around this question tells us that something has changed.
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