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AI: Artificial Intelligence Review Part 13: What is Value?

Ducks do not debate the existence of God, nor do they build skyscrapers

Let’s say robots were to become sentient, humans would still be the cause of that consciousness, even when they began to self-replicate, their understanding of the world would still come from humanity.

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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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The Pope Just Weighed In On AI

If your religious organization doesn’t yet have a theology of AI, start building one because the conversation is already happening without you

The question isn’t whether AI will harm us. The question is actually whether we will remain human.

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AI and the extraordinary claims made without extraordinary evidence

Nobody should be using AI tools just for the sake of using them

Will the bubble pop or is the pullback another false alarm? In any case, the extraordinary claims will likely continue and perhaps even accelerate as AI startups push their IPOs and companies become fearful of the bubble popping.

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Are AI Developers As Smart As They Are Made Out To Be?

My confidence in the intelligence of AI developers was shaken by two recent events

Many commentators seem to have forgotten Goodhart’s Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

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AI: Artificial Intelligence Review Part 12

The story is not talking about how to determine reality as a whole, it’s really attacking human exceptionalism

Ideas like love, beauty, and so on are part of the human experience because humans sense them; they don’t always agree on the particulars, but they intuitively know that these ideas exist.

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What AI Has and Hasn’t Solved Recently in Math

We need to look at the distinction between horizontal and vertical innovation

AI displays very impressive horizontal integration (integrating existing concepts) but not vertical integration (entirely new inventions).

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AI: Artificial Intelligence Review Part 11: Along Came the Glitter Bots

It’s boring and pretentious to the point of being obnoxious

Spielberg fails to understand that obsession is not love, and if David were really human, he would know that.

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AI Got Booed Off the Stage 

Graduating seniors don't all approve of the technology's growing presence in society 

Many graduating students may just want a simpler life where they can work, afford to live, and enter life-giving relationships.

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Organoid Intelligence?: That’s AI Powered by Pizza and Beer

It may help us address environmental impact issues posed by AI

If organoid computing succeeds, the next generation of computers may need both software updates and daily feedings.

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A Long Night’s Journey into the Dark Side of AI

Like AI, the subconscious mind can process a vast amount of information.

Science Fiction writers have over the past 100-plus years been warning us about the horrors of a dystopian future, but now we are reaching the point where such Sci-Fi stories are now becoming ‘Faction’.

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When AI Headlines Sound Apocalyptic or Miraculous, Time to Slow Down

Most authors of AI hype articles have never taken a foundational computer science course, have never written code, and have never run AI software

Here are a dozen tips for detecting fake and misleading articles about artificial intelligence.

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AI Artificial Intelligence Part 10: Mocking Descartes

The philosopher was trying to establish how a man can know whether or not he exists

Whenever David talks about Monica loving him, he’s always bringing up the things she’ll do for him, not what he can do for her.

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AI: Artificial intelligence Review Part 9

David’s hijacking of the aircraft provides him with a distraction, and he escapes.

David mentions that the first thing he remembered seeing was a bird with outstretched feathers, but it turns out that this initial visual was not a bird at all but a man with feather-like symbols beneath his feet.

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AI Startups are Measuring their Revenues in Likely Fraudulent Ways

These companies are creating higher valuations out of thin air!

Companies charge their customers enough money for them to pay their suppliers, and for those suppliers to pay their suppliers but this isn’t happening in AI.

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Why I Will Not Use Gen AI For Software Development

It’s too risky, and today’s apparent short-term boost may lead to long-term regret.

Our brain’s dopamine system is exploited by the non-deterministic output of GenAI, just as with social media and slot machines.

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Who Expected Richard Dawkins To Blow Up Darwinism?

To the astonishment and dismay of a computer pro who once admired him, Dawkins, who has a materialist view of human consciousness, has convinced himself that a chatbot is conscious

If this is what happens when people think that human consciousness has a purely material evolutionary origin, it is a strong argument for the opposite view.

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AI: Artificial Intelligence Review Part 8

There is no definition for real here because there is no God to define what is “real”.

Spielberg, and presumably Kubrick, are going to use this botched retelling of a fairy tale to give you an ironclad case for atheism.

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AI: Artificial Intelligence Review Part 7

The powers that be have created a robot that can trick people.

These writers sometimes present the opposing points of view through unlikable avatars in an attempt to peer pressure their audience.

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