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Author
Peter Biles
Date
August 28, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Colligo, Computer age, COSM, data, Dataism, Erik J. Larson, Latin, Substack, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence}

Against the Tyranny of Data

_{Computer scientist and tech entrepreneur Erik J. Larson is launching his own Substack channel dedicated to promoting human flourishing in the computer age} _{Peter Biles

August 28, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Can everything be reduced to data? Are human beings just complicated data storage units waiting to be outclassed by artificial intelligence? A new Substack account from computer scientist and tech entrepreneur Erik J. Larson is setting out to promote something deeper and more complex than the reductionistic explanations so rampant in our culture today. He calls the Substack “Colligo,” taken from the Latin meaning “coming together.” “I want to show the problems with our data-driven world and show or assemble a richer humanistic picture,” writes Larson in his debut post. “Dataism is at odds with human flourishing. Data is just input into something else. If we are just data, then we are inputs into something else. It’s difficult to find Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
August 26, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Ai avatar, ChatGPT, Influencers, Instagram, Kim Kardashian, National Review, social media}

National Review: Let AI Take Over Social Media Influencing

_{AI influencers are revealing how vapid social media really is} _{Peter Biles

August 26, 2023

2

Artificial Intelligence}

We’ve recently commented on the AI influencer phenomenon, which seems to be taking social media by storm. With advanced AI imaging, more AI influencers are popping up, and they already look comparable to the likes of Kim Kardashian. The social media influencing world depends on primarily women selling their bodies for revenue. Instagram has tended heavily in this direction, and with the advent of OnlyFans, the temptation to flaunt oneself so provocatively is tangible for many. National Review writer Haley Strack thinks that the AI influencer horde will out-compete real-life influencers and eventually rule out the need for humans at all. She writes, Some criticize AI for giving young men another possibly perverse, sexual outlet online — but men who Read More ›

Humanoid robot artist painting a portrait on a canvas in an artist studio showing the concept of science and artificial intelligence technology, computer Generative AI stock illustration image

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Author
News
Date
August 22, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

AI “Art” Can’t Be Copyrighted, Judge Rules

_{Copyright entails original, human creation, which AI images don't reflect} _{News

August 22, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

A federal judge has ruled that AI-generated artwork can’t legally be attributed to the person who prompted the work, according to The Verge. AI-generated artwork systems like DALL-E and Midjourney, despite their impressive capabilities, have sparked debate and legal controversies regarding the rights of artists and whether AI images should be treated as independent and original creations. For United States District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell, AI art isn’t original and therefore can not be copyrighted. (RELATED: Will Stability AI Go Down in Court? | Mind Matters) In justifying her decision, Howell said that copyright always involves a human hand. Wes Davis reports, In her decision, Judge Howell wrote that copyright has never been granted to work that was “absent Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
August 19, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, BibleGPT, ChatGPT, Christianity Today, Consciousness, Internet addiction, Jacques Ellul on social media addiction, Large Language Models (LLMs), OpenAI, Philosophy, Read Schuchardt, Ryan Kemp, Technological society, Technology, The American Mind, The Hedgehog Review, tv, Wheaton College}

Artificial Intelligence: The Final Stage of Disembodiment?

_{The Internet invites a disembodied existence. Is AI the next step?} _{Peter Biles

August 19, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality}

Dr. Read Schuchardt, professor of communications at Wheaton College (IL), identifies five primary ways digital technology can erode our lives and relationships, or produce what he calls “vices of the virtual life”: Speaking of disembodiment, which he regards as perhaps the primary negative effect of virtual life, Schuchardt writes, On the phone, on the web, on the TV, you are simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. This creates a mind-body separation that both mimics death and parodies angels, eliminates the possibility of natural law, and allows you to become pure ‘information,’ simply wearing the corporate body as your own. -Read Schuchardt, Media, Journalism, and Communication, p. 56. I’ve found this to be true in my own experience; time online produces an inner Read More ›

Group of college students studying in the school library, a girl and a boy are using a laptop and connecting to internet

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Author
News
Date
August 18, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Education

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Bloomberg, ChatGPT, critical thinking, education, Learning, Plagiarism, Plough}

Teachers Gear Up for a New Year – and ChatGPT

_{Due to ChatGPT's popularity, many schools are seeking ways to integrate the technology into their learning environments.} _{News

August 18, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Education}

GPT-3, released by OpenAI in November, swiftly undermined the integrity of many a student’s academic work. Professors across disciplines have had to contend with how to discern machine vs. human-generated work. Now, with a new school year underway, that challenge remains. Due to ChatGPT’s popularity, many schools are seeking ways to integrate the technology into their learning environments. But the question of how to do this remains murky. Bloomberg reports, But professors and administrators seeking to integrate generative AI into their curriculums are left with a big question: How? They need to find the right middle ground, said Steve Weber, vice provost of undergraduate curriculum and education at Drexel University. Educators can’t completely prohibit use of the tool and neglect to teach it, but Read More ›

Concert view of saxophonist, a saxophone sax player with musical band during jazz orchestra show performing music on stage in the scene lights. Generated AI.

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Author
News
Date
August 15, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, ChatGPT, deep fakes, James Hirsen, Jazz, Mind Matters podcast, music, Rhythm, Robert J. Marks}

Could AI Ever Master Jazz Music?

_{Jazz depends so much on spontaneity and improvisation.} _{News

August 15, 2023

2

Artificial Intelligence}

In a new Mind Matters podcast, host Robert J. Marks sat down with James Hirsen, who performed as a musician for many years, to talk AI, deep fakes, and the possibility of artificially contrived music. Hirsen defended the human uniqueness of jazz music in particular, noting how in this musical genre, spontaneity and in-person experiences are essential. He says, And I’ve experienced it many, many times, but especially in intimate gatherings, when a musician is playing jazz or blues in a club and there’s a group of people interacting that, I believe, cannot be emulated by any AI that I’ve experienced. But on record, I think they can do it. So music’s unique in this sense. If jazz is being Read More ›

Travelers together around the campfire, enjoying the fresh air near the tent under the Milky Way in the evening. Silhouettes of two adventurous people camping in the mountains under the starry sky.

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
August 13, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
art, C.S. Lewis, ChatGPT, Christina Bieber Lake, Consciousness, Creativity, fiction, Non-Computable You (book), OpenAI, Peter Biles, Plato, Rhetoric, Robert J. Marks, Robin Phillips, Salvo, Sophists, Wheaton College, Writing}

Literature and Personal Consciousness: Why AI Can’t Speak to You

_{AI can never intend meaning like a human author can} _{Peter Biles

August 13, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

One of the biggest contentions in the current debate over OpenAI’s new Large Language Model (LLM) ChatGPT is its purported ability to create a story, to speak and communicate narrative like a human storyteller. If you ask ChatGPT to write an Edgar Allen Poe-esque story, it will generate something spooky, gothic, and darkly poetic. Ask it to write a Shakespearean sonnet, and out comes a fourteen-lined poem about nature and romance. Need a horror thriller like The Shining or It by Stephen King? You got it. For all its scary impressiveness, and the guarantee that the technology will only get better, the chatbot extraordinaire fails and will always fail to tell a story. In fact, it can’t be expected to generate meaningful art and literature Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
August 9, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, ChatGPT, economy, Jobs, OpenAI, Sam Altman, The Atlantic, Work}

OpenAI CEO: Yes, AI Will Take Jobs Away

_{Technology has historically replaced human workers only to add new jobs. Is AI any different?} _{News

August 9, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Sam Altman, the CEO of the AI company OpenAI, which was responsible for developing the Large Language Model ChatGPT, said in an interview with The Atlantic that AI will definitely be taking some jobs away, striking a blow to some AI optimists who claim that this won’t be the case. According to Business Insider, “A lot of people working on AI pretend that it’s only going to be good; it’s only going to be a supplement; no one is ever going to be replaced,” he said. “Jobs are definitely going to go away, full stop.” –ChatGPT Creator Sam Altman Says ‘Jobs Are Definitely Going to Go Away’ (businessinsider.com) While certain jobs might go the wayside, it’s possible AI could introduce Read More ›

Cyber security, AI Mind, Network Management, Modern Data Center, Cloud Networking, AI Generated Art

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Author
News
Date
August 8, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Alarmism, Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, Dystopian, Robert J. Marks, Science fiction, Tech alarmist, The Atlantic, Yuval Noah Harari}

Evaluating Yuval Harari’s Dystopian Views on AI

_{Does AI spell the doom of democracy?} _{News

August 8, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Will infotech and biotech erode human agency, subvert human desires, and render free-market economics obsolete? At first glance, there looks to be a wide gap between the future of AI and the destruction of democracy. Some futurists claim to have jumped that chasm. In a cheery little column published by The Atlantic, Yuval Noah Harari posits AI will ultimately destroy democracy and favor Digital Dictatorships. He notes that liberal democracies have been anomalies and that history tends to favor authoritarian governance. What is his argument and does it hold water? We’ve been sharing a number of lectures from past COSM conferences and other videos. This video is just one of many you can find at the Bradley Center’s YouTube page. There Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
August 4, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, ChatGPT, Futurism, Influencers, Instagram, internet, social media, Victor Tangermann}

AI Influencers Are Starting to Explode

_{Seeing how artificial and impersonal the influencer lifestyle already is, maybe it was inevitable.} _{Peter Biles

August 4, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

AI avatars are starting to flood the social media “influencing” sphere. Seeing how artificial and impersonal the influencer lifestyle already is, maybe it was inevitable. The “Instagram influencer” is a relatively new phenom: an attractive, usually young, person flaunts certain brands on social media for revenue. The phrase “digital creator” is a common tag on bios, and countless young women have made a living off of selling their looks on Instagram. So how might AI play into all this? Well, there are now hundreds of AI internet personalities flooding social media. And they look pretty convincing. Victor Tangermann reports, Thanks to the advent of AI-powered image generators like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, some are now fabricating entire feeds of internet Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
August 4, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Tagged
AI, Atari arcade game, board games, Deep Learning, Energy use, Ergodicity, Neural networks, Power supply, Robert J. Marks}

The Secret Ingredient for AI: Ergodicity

_{If you don't know the term, you need to} _{Robert J. Marks

August 4, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning}

Deep learning used to train AlphaGo data used to train neural networks must display ergodicity: The data to which the computer learning program is exposed must also characterize data that it has not seen. Before applying AI in deep convolutional neural networks, practitioners need to address whether the problem under consideration is “ergodic.” 1 We are rightly amazed when deep learning wins at Atari arcade games using only display pixels. But in doing so, the AI is exposed to the same game again and again (and again). The scenarios change, but the game and its rules remain static. The same is true with chess or GO. When trained and tested against a human opponent, we know that the AI will Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
August 2, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, god, Jesus Revolution, Mere Christianity (book), Pirate's Cove, Revival, Robert J. Marks, social media, TikTok}

Running from TikTok to Baptism and Truth

_{AI-powered social media is hurting kids, but look at the simultaneous revival happening, writes Robert J. Marks} _{News

August 2, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

“Digital fentanyl.” That’s the evocative term U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wisc. used to describe TikTok. In Robert J. Marks’ new Newsmax article, he decries the tragic effects of social media on teens. The data is in: social media makes kids depressed. Marks writes, Media-drenched teenage boys without girlfriends feel like social freaks. One in three teenage girls who use social have body image issues.Young adults who use social media are three times as likely to suffer from depression. Depression can lead to suicide. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, female suicides aged 15-24 increased by 87 percent over the past 20 years and male suicides increased by 30 percent. The American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry says suicide is now the second leading Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
August 2, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Biology, ChatGPT, Consciousness, COSM, Jay Richards}

Can AI Customize and Individualize Healthcare?

_{Mundie thinks some aspects of biology are too complex for humans. Could AI help?} _{News

August 2, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Craig Mundie says that his dream is to make artificial intelligence one day rival human intellect. While many worry about more dystopian outcomes as result of that, Mundie sees AI as dual use. In his opinion, it can be used for good or ill just like any other technology. Jay Richards interviews Craig Mundie, President of Mundie & Associates and former Microsoft Chief Research Officer about emerging trends in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), especially for human systems and healthcare. Craig Mundie: “Well, I think the problem is, you need to model all of human biology. In my opinion, human biology is too complicated for humans. It’s just too complicated. So the question is, is it possible that a Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
August 1, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, AI hype, Alan Turing, Bad science, COSM, COSM 2021, Erik J. Larson, Natural Intelligence}

The Myth of Artificial Intelligence

_{Tech entrepreneur Erik J. Larson on why the AI hype is profoundly misplaced} _{News

August 1, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

In today’s featured COSM video, watch author Erik J. Larson discusses ideas underlying his book, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, as well as what he is exploring in his next book, which focuses on the history of the 21st Century so far. Here’s the summary of the book from Amazon: Futurists insist that AI will soon eclipse the capacities of the most gifted human mind. What hope do we have against superintelligent machines? But we aren’t really on the path to developing intelligent machines. In fact, we don’t even know where that path might be. A tech entrepreneur and pioneering research scientist working at the forefront of natural language processing, Erik Larson takes us on a tour of the landscape Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
July 30, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
ChatGPT, Consciousness, Large Language Models (LLMs), Literature, OpenAI, Plough}

ChatGPT: The Perfect Gadget for a Culture in Decline?

_{ChatGPT is an impersonal machine and can't generate meaning} _{Peter Biles

July 30, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Dr. Jeffrey Bilbro, professor of English at Grove City College and an editor at The Front Porch Republic, wrote an article for Plough on what he regards as the primary weakness of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. Bilbro comes to the issue from a literary background, which means he values the human element in language as a mode of communication. Literature is a “conversation,” requiring sentient minds. He sees ChatGPT as a soulless mechanism that will atrophy our ability to write and diminish our appreciation for good writing. Bilbro writes, LLMs are a technology suited to a decadent culture, one that chases easy profits rather than tackles the real challenges we face. It’s easier to make money rearranging words Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
July 28, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality

Tagged
AI, Alien, Alien life, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Church, Consciousness, Extraterrestrials (ET), J.P. Moreland, Robert J. Marks, Science fiction, Sean McDowell, Sex, UAPs/UFOs, UFOs, William Lane Craig, Worship}

Of AI and Aliens: Two Philosophers Give Their Thoughts

_{These sound minds are great resources to draw from in the chaos of our times} _{Peter Biles

July 28, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality}

Just when you thought our cultural moment couldn’t get any more outlandish, here comes a congressional hearing in which several high-profile individuals claim U.S. intelligence is in possession of “non-human biologics,” a euphemism for “alien stuff.” In a recent YouTube interview, Sean McDowell of Biola University asked philosophers William Lane Craig and J.P. Moreland what they thought of extraterrestrial life and its implications. Craig, a philosopher and theologian, said it would have no bearing on his belief in God’s existence, but emotionally, that it would be remarkably unsettling, and would amount to the greatest discovery in the human history. McDowell pivoted from aliens and addressed the question of artificial intelligence, which Moreland, who specializes in the philosophy of mind, was Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
July 27, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence}

AI’s Role in Unlocking Human Potential

_{Can AI replicate or exceed human knowledge and creativity?} _{News

July 27, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

In today’s featured video from a past COSM conference, we ask the question: can artificial intelligence replicate or exceed human knowledge and creativity? What are AI’s implications for the workforce? Oren Etzioni, CEO of Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, George Montañez, Iris and Howard Critchell Professor of Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College, Robert J. Marks, Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Baylor University, and Matt McIlwain, managing director Madrona Venture Group discuss the new business and career opportunities created by artificial intelligence, and whether AI and humanity will merge at some point in the future. We’ve been sharing a number of lectures from past COSM conferences. This video is just one of many you can find at Read More ›

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
July 26, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, China}

China’s Chatbot Toes the Party Line

_{How will China control what AI does and doesn't say?} _{Heather Zeiger

July 26, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, China}

News outlets and media in China must follow the Party’s guidelines on what to write. Whenever a major event happens, such as a Party Congress, or protests at Foxconn factories, media outlets are given a list of what they can and cannot say in the news. How will China’s government control what generative AI, particularly large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, or Baidu’s Ernie, say? It turns out that the very unpredictability of LLMs makes censorship tricky. In China, LLMs like Baidu’s Ernie (“Wenxin Yiyan”) compile the information from an already sanitized Chinese internet which would essentially perpetuate the Party’s view. “Services like ChatGPT and Ernie draw their answers from vast quantities of text culled from the Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
July 26, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Consciousness, Doomsdayers, Neural networks (and understanding), OpenAI, Sam Altmann}

Do AI Developers Really Not Know What They’re Making?

_{A speech-and-language AI researcher counterclaims the doomsdayers} _{News

July 26, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

A new article by AI researcher Arlie Coles at American Mind aims to “demystify” artificial intelligence, particularly the claim that AI creators have no idea what they’re creating. Coles says that we understand AI much better than the doomsdayers let on. Part of the reason for AI’s cloudy nature is due to its mathematical complexity, which Coles finds understandable. But that’s no reason not to try and understand what AI is and gauge its benefits and capacities in an accurate light. She writes, We do know what we’re building and how it works, and it’s not too late for us to speak forthrightly about AI so that the general public, not just those with math or computer science Ph.D.s, can Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
July 20, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
12 Rules for Life (book), AI, Consciousness, industrial revolution, Jordan Peterson, Power and Science, Technology, YouTube}

“The Bigger the Toy, the Smarter You Ought to Be to Use It”

_{With great technological power comes great moral responsibility, said Peterson} _{News

July 20, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

The Canadian clinical psychologist and YouTube lecturer Jordan B. Peterson, who ascended to international fame upon the publication of his book 12 Rules for Life, has shared his thoughts on artificial intelligence, and has been speaking on the subject in his interviews with greater regularity. Here’s a short clip (ten minutes long) of Peterson lining out some of the ethical challenges with AI: “We’re primitive children on the ethical front with the tools of gods,” Peterson said, noting how in the last few decades, technological and scientific progress has far outpaced humanity’s ethical maturity. For Peterson, the more sophisticated and powerful the technology, the greater need there is for virtue, self-control, and good will in order to handle these tools Read More ›