CategoryArtificial general intelligence (AGI)
Absolutist, Prohibitionist, and Luddite? Oh, My!
Pushing back against labels that shut down the conversation
Why the Real Danger of AI Is Not What You Think
What really makes Donald Wunsch stand out is his focus on what AI can actually do today
Why I Respectfully Disagree With Bill Dembski on AI in Education
Are GenAI chatbots really the bridge over the gulf of our education crisis?
The Chatbots’ Most Dangerous Correlations
To give these machines blind trust really is the case of the blind leading the blind, and that is not likely to end well
Straight Talk About AI From a Valley Tech Exec
Microsoft vice-president Uli Homann lays out what it can — and can’t — really do for you
Large Language Models: Inconsistent Because They’re Unintelligent
Here’s what happened when I tested popular LLMs on student exercise questions I have been using for over fifty years
Will Reliance on AI Mean a Vast Drop in New Knowledge Production?
Dependence on AI assistants, for example, was found to greatly reduce discussion among peers, where new ideas are offered and evaluated
The Real Threat AI Poses to Us Is Created by Widespread Abuse
In If Anyone Builds It, Yudkowsky and Soares are not really grappling with this problem
Can an AI Really Develop a Mind of Its Own?
Specifically, can an AI develop a mind with its own goals and desires, capable of plans and strategies — as the authors of If Anyone Builds It believe?
Fearing the Terminator: Does Current Tech Warrant the Doomsaying?
People will worry less if they understand why the text generation programs not only do not think but in fact cannot think
Fearing the Terminator, Missing the Obvious
In Part 1 of my review of the new AI Doom book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, we look at how the authors first developed the underlying idea
Natural Intelligence Creates Information; AI Processes It
Human intelligence creates new information through free, purposeful choices, while AI can only process/transform existing data according to predetermined rules
Podcast: The Challenge of Proving Creativity in AI
AI researcher Mappouras discusses the limitations of the Lovelace test for AI creativity with host Robert Marks
Intelligence Demands More than Pressing a Lever to Obtain Water
I continue to be astonished by how willing people are to assume that LLMs are intelligent because they give glib, confident answers
COSM 2025 Panel to Tackle the Hard Problem: Consciousness
Michael Egnor sees the failure to find a “material center of consciousness” in the brain as a science success, not failure. It points to an important truth about us
Brain Surgeon Shows Why AI Can Never Become Human
Spoiler alert: AI requires physical hardware; the mind does not
Podcast: A New Test to Measure Understanding in AI Models
The Turing Test 2.0 is based on the view that intelligence is the ability to extract new knowledge from existing information and apply it consistently across time and context
A Realistic Direction for Artificial General Intelligence Today
Based on GPT5's performance to date, it would make a superb substitute for a mansplainer I know of — call him Brock