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Monday Micro Softy 85: Are You Up To Caliber?

There is a serious question here: Why might small differences in caliber matter?

Why would a military force decide to use a slightly different caliber of bullets from the one used by the enemy force?

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How to Think Clearly in the Age of AI

AI isn’t really artificial intelligence, but simulated intelligence

Human beings possess a unique and powerful innovative energy that can bring forth new things that did not exist before.

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Skynet Goes Live

The most amazing computer in the universe is still your own brain

After spending three days conversing with Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude about a range of topics, noted atheist Richard Dawkins acknowledged that he was now open to the possibility that artificial intelligence may possess consciousness.

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New Study Finds Many Pastors Use AI in Various Ways

It's not just schools. AI is in the churches, too

The way AI is creeping into our cultural and religious institutions is worth keeping an eye on, especially since so many of us look to these places to understand what it means to be human in the first place.

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Horizontal Innovation Requires More Than Novel Outputs

Current AI systems excel at producing output novelty, but I do not believe they demonstrate algorithmic novelty

LLMs’ impressive outputs demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithms; they do not demonstrate that the AI has invented new computational methods.

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Florida Hails a Surveillance Regime to Corral Renegade AI

Irony: You’ll need to surrender your privacy to government or multi-national AI before you can use AI that tracks you anyway

A few of us suggest individual users should know the risks and make the choices, leaving both government agencies and multi-national computer servers out of the picture.

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Monday Micro Softy 82: When Bugs Break Up Fights…

A surprising amount of intelligence of use in the computer industry can be learned from watching insects

To solve last week’s puzzle, keep in mind that every termite is doing the same thing.

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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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