CategoryArtificial Intelligence
Want to Talk to Jesus? Consult a Bot
Is AI changing the way people pray?
Machine Intelligence and Reasoning: We Are Not on a Path to AGI
AI guru François Chollet’s Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) proves we’re not on a path to AGI
From Data to Thoughts: Why Language Models Hallucinate
The limits of today’s language models and paths to real cognition
Do Fantasy Sports Tell Us Something About Artificial Intelligence?
My biggest takeaway from my own involvement is how well fantasy football illuminates some weaknesses of artificial intelligence (AI)
Why Human Intelligence Thrives Where Machines Fail
We're worried about AI and trust. We should be worried about something deeper
As AI Bots Hit the Scene, What Will Happen to Romance and Marriage?
How fares romance and marriage in the 21st century? In America, at least, it's not looking goodIn decades past, people tended to meet each other in their local communities through church, school, family friends, and so on. Go back further and it was common for marriages to be arranged solely for economic purposes. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen was subversive because Elizabeth Bennett risks her family’s economic security by marrying Mr. Darcy purely for love. But, I digress. Trae Stephens writes for Pirate Wires on how the marriage rate has gone down alongside the advent of digital technologies, and how this is, more than likely, not coincidental. Particularly with the rise of AI bots, like the ones published by Character.AI, millions of people are living out romances with digital avatars perfectly tailored to their whims Read More ›
Report: Large Language Models Don’t “Think”
Also, Apple Intelligence might not be so intelligent after allA research team at Apple is now sharing that “state-of-the-art” AI bots are failing basic arithmetic problems according to Los Angeles Times. Michael Hiltzik writes, The Apple team found “catastrophic performance drops” by those models when they tried to parse simple mathematical problems written in essay form. In this example, the systems tasked with the question often didn’t understand that the size of the kiwis have nothing to do with the number of kiwis Oliver has. Some, consequently, subtracted the five undersized kiwis from the total and answered “185.” Human schoolchildren, the researchers posited, are much better at detecting the difference between relevant information and inconsequential curveballs. Apple has recently been rolling out tons of new advertisements promoting the iPhone Read More ›
Are We Now Giving Nobel Prizes to Cheerleaders?
Even though both John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton are brilliant researchers, there were much more obviously deserving recipients
How To Sue A Chatbot For Causing Suicide
If your child committed suicide because an online chatbot effectively encouraged him to do so, could you sue the chatbot makers?
John Stuart Mill: Humans Are Not Automatons
Making rational decisions takes a lot of thought and hard work, says Mill.
The Tolkien Test vs. the Turing Test
Could AI create Middle-earth?
The Tragic Case of Teen’s Death and Character.AI
From the perspective of friends and family, it looked like Sewell just got mired in his phone. They weren’t aware he “fell for a chatbot.”
AI is the New Political Irony Machine
We live in a world inundated with fakery and irony. Are we losing our interest in the truth?I never saw any news reports of Haitian migrants allegedly eating people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio. At least, not for the first couple of days after the “news” hit the social media headlines. I did see, however, an AI-generated video of a kitten cradled in the arms of Donald Trump with a caption along the lines of “save the cats!” The Haitians chased him with weaponry in the background. I saw another AI video of a cat at a construction site just working to feed the family, praying that he’d live to see another day without the Haitians trying to nab his skin as a rug. The event was a meme before it was a story. It wasn’t until after I’d Read More ›
COSM 2024: Intelligence, Tech, and the True Source of Prosperity
In a world saturated with pessimism, George Gilder is very much an optimist
AI Social Media “Slop” Makes Lies Look Convincing
The AI slop machine holds graver consequences when the images reflect natural disasters
Hinton and Hopfield Win Nobel Prize in Physics
Hinton warns against neglecting AI safetyGeoffrey E. Hinton, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence responsible for helping develop “neural networks,” has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize alongside John J. Hopfield. The two scientists won the award for their groundbreaking work in machine intelligence, paving the way for a revolutionary new way to use computers. Hinton attracted attention just last year when he departed from Google and started warning the public about the potential dangers of new AI systems. He likened the AI revolution to the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century, only this time, it won’t be our physical capacities that get trumped by the machine, but our intellects. The New York Times reports, “It will be comparable with the Industrial Revolution,” Read More ›
What Will Our AI-Shaped Future Look Like?
The "LatinX cat mom" affair laid bare the kind of anaemic and banal diet that seems to sustain Ireland’s cultural and intellectual establishment
Character.AI Let a User “Recreate” Deceased Woman
I think we can all agree this really crosses the line.