CategoryArtificial Intelligence
Marvin Minsky Asks: Can GPT4 Hack Itself?
Will AI of the future be able to count the number of objects in an image?
Researchers: Chatbots Generally Flunk Simple Logic Test
From Futurism we learn “when asked to show their work, the AIs would detail bizarre and erroneous lines of "thinking" that made no sense”
Paleoartists — Artists for Dinosaurs — Confront Generative AI
Generative AI cannot yet combine science-level accuracy and sensitivity to artistic issues but it is starting to have an impact anyway.
Writers Are Getting Fired for…Not Using ChatGPT?
AI detectors aren't totally accurate, and the cost is steep for the writing industry
How Do Writers Get Paid in an Age When Chatbots “Write” Things?
Are lawsuits against Big Tech really the answer? Much of the territory is uncharted
Will AI Replace Developers? A Tale for Our Times
There are calls, even about software, that you would definitely not want a digital assistant to take
How Ancient Philosophers Can Help Design Better Computers
The Kubernetes program, for example, steers groups of computers the way, in the ancient image, a navigator steers a ship
But Can Chatbot Claude Keep Its Promise To Reform?
What will happen, after all of Grasso’s careful work, when a different user asks for arguments in favor of intelligent design?
From a Philosopher: Philosophy of Consciousness Is “Bizarre”
Eric Schwitzgebel admits to his host at Closer to Truth that “every single view in the history of the philosophy of mind is bizarre”…
Chatbot Claude Starts to Grok Intelligent Design…
As a result of Grasso’s probing Claude now admits that labeling intelligent design as “pseudoscience” or “non-scientific across the board” was an over-generalizationWe’ve been reporting (here and here) on the efforts of Otangelo Grasso to get chatbot Claude 3/Anthropic to quit refusing to answer or shoveling out new atheist boilerplate about design in the universe. The object was to get it to start offering actual information about the controversy. Where we left it yesterday, the chatbot seems to have been searching information sources that did not simply label the intelligent design hypothesis as “pseudoscience” but engaged with the arguments. Here’s it’s subsequent response: Claude: I appreciate you laying out the argument for intelligent design in such detail. You make some fair points that I will consider carefully. However, I still have some issues with the hypothesis and conclusions: So while I grant Read More ›
Educating Chatbot Claude on ID and the Nature of Science
When you are arguing with Claude, you are arguing with the internet —well, with whatever slice the chatbot has scarfed up and processed, according to an algorithm
Educating Chatbot Claude About Design in the Universe
In an age when “prebunking” drowns information, chatbots need to go back to schoolLast week, Richard Stevens wrote about the new fad in information control known as prebunking — setting about to destroy the reputation of a news source among the unwary. The tactic seems popular among a newer type of journalist for whom there is no other side to a story, who views alternative takes as a threat. That sort of journalism is currently associated with a huge decline in mainstream media readership even among stalwarts such as the Washington Post, which is currently facing a top-drawer upheaval as a result. Stevens demonstrated how a chatbot could provide free prebunking copy, using Mind Matters News‘s About page and Introduction as the subject. Anything can be prebunked in principle and sometimes chatbots may Read More ›
Generative AI Is Creating a Copyright Crisis for Artists
How does an artist assert copyright when her image was only one of many used to create a new image? How does she make a living if she can’t?
The Seoul AI Summit: Serious Safety Progress or Window-Dressing?
Whatever differences the firms have in private, they put up a united front in public, pledging to cooperate and continue to meet…
AI Isn’t Going to Destroy the World (or Save It, Either)
Revisiting a classic podcast interview with Robert J. MarksA classic episode of ID the Future dives into the controversial realm of artificial intelligence (AI). Will robots or other computers ever become so fast and powerful that they become conscious, creative, and free? Will AI reach a point where it leaves humans in the dust? To shed light on these and other questions, host Casey Luskin interviews computer engineering professor Robert J. Marks, head of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. In this fast-paced interview, Marks touches on dystopian AI and the limits of computer algorithms (they can never do anything that is inherently non-computable, Marks argues), and discuss celebrity thinkers and entrepreneurs who’ve weighed in on the promises and perils of AI, such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Read More ›
Is the New Natural-Sounding Chatbot GPT4.o Breaking a Barrier?
It depends on what barrier you mean, says philosopher of technology Shannon Vallor. It could harm vulnerable people by convincing them that it is a person
“Dopamine-Maximizing AI”
Elon Musk on addictive algorithms and the future of AI
Hype Distracts AI Engineers from Real Work
Who is going to solve AI's actual problems?