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AI Pessimists vs True Believers: A Deepening Divide

There is a growing divide about AI even among AI experts but many of them like polarizing content, just as the consumers of political information do
True believers don’t focus on short-term trends because they aren’t very positive. But short-term trends should be consistent with a long-term forecast. Read More ›
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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?
Sewell killed himself at the urging of a speaking and texting chatbot. The next gen is nearly flawless human impersonation video bots. Protect your children. Read More ›
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Bill Dembski: When a Chatbot Tried Improving on a Literary Genius

If what matters is computer engineering and a supermassive databank, the chatbot should improve on the masters, right?
Information theorist Dembski thinks that the statistical averages that bots depend on mean they will necessarily regress to the mean and result in mediocrity. Read More ›
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Is Open AI — and Chatbots in General — the Next Train Wreck?

Gary Marcus notes the string of head office departures and both he and Jeffrey Funk look at the history of hype, hope, and long AI winters
Not only isn’t there a huge commercial market for digital plagiarism by chatbots, they are attracting huge copyright lawsuits instead. Read More ›
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Computer ‘Creativity’ Is Simply Digital Plagiarism

One outcome is many lawsuits against generative AI companies whose programs snatch and use copyrighted material
As radio host Mark Davis put it recently, “ultimately everything AI does is go in search of something that some human being said or wrote sometime.” Read More ›
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Engineer Explains Why AI Bots Always Lean Left

ChatGPT kept insisting on scientific consensus as the most important factor in what to believe regarding global warming and similar issues
If AI systems such as ChatGPT cannot engage in conceptual thought, then they can only promote consensus, which is what we see. Read More ›
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A Sloppy “AI Scientist” Could Make the Science Crisis Much Worse

A research team claims to have developed the AI Scientist that “generates novel research ideas, writes code, executes experiments ...” Really?
It continues to astonish us how easily people can be persuaded that LLMs (chatbots) can do our thinking for us Read More ›
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AI Going MAD? The Model Collapse Problem Gets More Attention Now

The problem is that the AI can't generate anything new on its own and the old stuff, endlessly recycled at high speeds, begins to erode
If human involvement is minimized, this hard limit will probably come up time and again. Computation is not creativity. Read More ›
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Why the Artificial Intelligence Bubble May Be About To Burst

For one thing, Space Odyssey’s HAL and Prometheus’s David aren’t really happening, for good reasons
Gary Marcus argues that Big Tech got rich, largely on promises, without confronting the known limits of artificial intelligence. Read More ›
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Science Journals Are Coming to Terms With AI’s Limits

There is risk in relying on chatbots for writing shortcuts. It is somewhat like relying on the town gossip for information. The tale might be true but…
It’s a good thing that the public is learning about the genuine limitations of chatbots. It might, of course, take a disaster to drive the reality home. Read More ›