U.S.: bias reporting systems spread from campus to neighborhoods
The trend may be short-lived. On campus, fear of not graduating seals many lips. Off campus, many would lose little by challenging unconstitutional bias police.
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Babies learn much language in the first six months post-birth
Even at that point they can tell sounds from languages they have never even heard apart.
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Robert J. Marks to speak at the University of North Texas Feb 10
The focus of the talk will be the theme of his recent book, Non-Computable You: What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will.
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DeepSeek unapologetically offers political censorship
And besides, it is a wonderful app if you want to be sure that the Chinese Communist Party knows all your business.
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Philosopher: Should we just accept a lifeless cosmos?
The fine-tuning of the universe, and Earth, for life suggests a Mind behind it all so, even so, we are not alone. But we don’t know.
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Chatbot is asked to estimate the probability of human evolution…
Human evolution from an ape-like creature is the central myth of secular society, enabling self-understanding, and it is unclear that evidence is even relevant.
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The periodic table as a product of laws of the universe
If the periodic table can be expressed as laws, as Seifert argues, then it is another argument for the design and fine-tuning of the universe for life.
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Wild baboons flunk the mirror self-awareness test
But why should we be so certain that visual recognition is the criterion for self-awareness? Some fish, ants and mice pass the mirror test but dogs often don’t.
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White House briefing room catches up with the 21st century
Just as the Democratic Convention did, the new White House briefing room favors bloggers, podcasters, and influencers alongside waning traditional media.
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At LinkedIn, Covid myths still rule. Here’s a post they removed
Message to LinkedIn: The origin of COVID is not even a politically sensitive topic any more! Whoever you are protecting, you can just stop.
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At Nature: Genetic profiling firm 23andMe nearing extinction?
Dilemma: If the genetic tests that identify ancestry also truly predicted health issues, as claimed, why are they not standard medical procedure?
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Is DeepSeek r1 really an AI apocalypse?
AI analyst Gary Marcus points out that DeepSeek was trained more cheaply but has the same problems with hallucination and does not think like a human (AGI).
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Marc Andreessen on how Silicon Valley culture is changing
The change very much affected political allegiances in last year’s U.S. election.
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Research: Academic fraud is made easier by chatbots
It’s a problem of human, not machine, behavior but the machines have automated it.
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Yes, AI can generate science too! Too often, it’s junk science
According to researchers, one problem is that public repositories of free science information can be offering tons of chatbot-driven drivel.
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Where machine intelligence fails — ask a programmer
Erik J. Larson warned yesterday in Metro Silicon Valley that we shouldn’t overestimate what machine intelligence can do: Human intelligence emerges because we are deeply embedded in our environments—a constant feedback loop of interaction that gives us a perpetual advantage. The machine model, no matter how well-trained, doesn’t operate within this dynamic system. It not only isn’t learning in real-time, Read More ›
Will a White House press shakeup change how news is delivered?
In December, we asked, “Can the White House ‘Mean Girl’” media be reformed?” We were looking at at journalist Mike Cernovich’s comments on the way that the White House press corps controls national political news in the United States: The White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) has the power to control seat assignments and credentialing. When you walk inside the briefing Read More ›
Dramatic use of AI to unlock ancient scrolls
The scrolls were discovered in 1750 but efforts to read them destroyed them. So many were sealed and put away, in the hope that they could one day be read.
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Just Stop Oil vandalizes Darwin’s grave at Westminster Abbey
It is interesting to see Darwin — given how revered he is among the social elite — subject to an unexpected attack.
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Why do so many organic chemicals exist in the absence of life?
Science writer Elise Cutts tells us at Quanta that life’s raw materials abound in the universe: How simple chemistry led to complex living organisms stands among the great unsolved mysteries of science. The recent studies of asteroid and comet material add to the evidence that the first steps of the assembly process happen in space — and happen very readily. Read More ›