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Big data and artificial intelligence concept. Machine learning and cyber mind domination concept in form of women face on dark blue technology background, 3d illustration.

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
April 21, 2024

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Evolution, Featured, Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, YouTube}

Joe Rogan Spins Bizarre Take on Evolution and AI

_{The podcaster thinks AI could become "God"} _{Peter Biles

April 21, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence}

Joe Rogan recently sat down with Tucker Carlson to have an often-bizarre conversation that involved everything from UFOs to evolution to saunas. Rogan’s comments on artificial intelligence, however, were some of the most provocative of the exchange, and reflected a sentiment common among futurists and transhumanists: AI could become a life form, evolve, and replace the human race. Rogan situates his views by noting that only humans think humans are important. In the grand scheme of the cosmos, human life is inconsequential. He went on to note that AI could become “God,” and evolve to a certain point where it would basically know everything there is to know. The question is: why would anyone want that, and why should that Read More ›

Soldier on top of the mountain with the Israeli flag

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
April 7, 2024

Categorized
Military

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Military, Robert J. Marks}

Cyberwarfare in the Israeli War

_{Cyberwarfare is the new arms race where opponents try to outdo each other using computer technology} _{Robert J. Marks

April 7, 2024

2

Military}

Cyberwarfare is the new arms race where opponents try to outdo each other using computer technology. For example, some missiles are guided by the GPS I use daily and take for granted. Israel’s cybersecurity infrastructure has activated nationwide GPS jamming. The jamming seeks to disrupt drones and GPS-guided missiles aimed at the country. Nowhere is GPS jamming more concentrated than in the Middle East. HERE is a map of areas around the world where GPS is disrupted. Click and drag to rotate the globe. In developing weapons in the cyberwarfare back and forth, the United States remains aware of dependency on easily disreputable technology like GPS. If GPS is disrupted, what technology can take its place? One approach is Read More ›

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Author
Gary Smith and Jeffrey Funk
Date
January 8, 2024

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Google}

When it Comes to New Technologies Like AI, Tempers Run Hot

_{So far, the most tangible LLM successes have been in generating political disinformation and phishing scams.} _{Gary Smith and Jeffrey Funk

January 8, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence}

LLMs often remind us of clueless students who answer essay questions by writing everything they think is relevant, hoping the right answer is in there somewhere Read More ›

Luxury perfume bottles at a fragrance scent presentation at the event at night

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 14, 2023

Categorized
Medicine and Health, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Bob Yirka, Brain imaging, corpus callosum, Featured, Left temporal lobe and language, Michael Egnor, neuroplasticity, Olfactory bulb, Yasemin Saplakoglu}

How Can a Woman Missing Her Olfactory Bulbs Still Smell?

_{The brain’s plasticity intrigues and puzzles researcher, and it also raises a larger issue} _{Denyse O'Leary

July 14, 2023

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Medicine and Health, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

Even since neuroscientists started imaging the brain, they’ve been turning up cases where people are missing brain parts we would expect them to need in order to do something — but they are doing that very thing anyway. One example, written up in LiveScience in 2019, concerns women who are missing their olfactory bulbs (illustrated) but can still smell: Researchers have discovered a small group of people that seem to defy medical science: They can smell despite lacking “olfactory bulbs,” the region in the front of the brain that processes information about smells from the nose. It’s not clear how they are able to do this, but the findings suggest that the human brain may have a greater ability to Read More ›

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Author
Eric Holloway
Date
July 12, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Consciousness, Creativity, Eric Holloway, Featured, Insights, Knowledge and wisdom, OpenAI, Robert J. Marks, Understanding and AI}

Does ChatGPT Pass the Creativity Test?

_{What does ChatGPT have to do in order to be considered creative?} _{Eric Holloway

July 12, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

What is creativity? Where does it come from? Why are some things humans do considered creative, while other things mundane? Can AI be creative? To answer these questions, let’s come up with a definition. Creativity at least means something new has been done. No work that copies what has come before is considered creative. A Creativity Criteria Just doing something new is not enough either. If it were, then I can easily be creative by flipping a coin 100 times. That specific sequence of coin flips will only occur once in the entire history of humanity. But no one would say I was creative when I flipped a coin. This means creativity has to generate a new insight. However, these two criteria are not adequate, Read More ›

Modern city with wireless network connection and city scape concept.Wireless network and Connection technology concept with city background at night.

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Author
News
Date
June 30, 2023

Categorized
Technology

Tagged
Adam Goad, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Baylor University, Blockchain, Consciousness, cryptocurrency, Data harvesting, Featured, Google, Mind Matters podcast, Robert J. Marks, Web 3.0}

What Will the Internet Look like in 10 Years?

_{Is a decentralized and digital system of currency the financial future? What is the "Web 3.0"?} _{News

June 30, 2023

1

Technology}

In the latest Mind Matters podcast, host Robert J. Marks sat with Adam Goad, a computer engineer from Baylor, to discuss the future of the Internet and the myriad of possibilities involved in the cryptocurrency and blockchain revolution. Is a decentralized and digital system of currency the financial future? What is the “Web 3.0”? Here’s the official description: In the age of data harvesting and Big Tech monopolies, what will the Internet look like in a decade? In today’s episode, Robert J. Marks speaks with computer engineer Adam Goad about “Web 3.0,” decentralization, cryptocurrency, and the future of the blockchain. Visit the podcast section of the site for more illuminating conversations on a broad array of topics in tech, culture, Read More ›

Aerial view of the Pentagon and the United States Air Force Memorial in Arlington, Virginia

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Author
News
Date
May 24, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, ChatGPT, Deepfakes, Elon Musk, Featured, Midjourney, OpenAI, Pentagon, Sam Altman, TMZ, United States}

Fake Fire at the Pentagon

_{An AI image of a fire near Pentagon stokes panic} _{News

May 24, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

An AI-generated image showing a billowing fire near the U.S. Pentagon caused panic this week. False alarms of an explosion started to proliferate across social media, with even a Russian state outlet reporting on the situation, according to TMZ. Nonetheless, the image showed various distortions and was quickly dismantled as a hoax by a number of vigilant viewers. Even so, the image looks realistic at first glance, and was enough to ignite concern; the incident occurs amidst legislative talks on Capitol Hill over AI regulation. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (which was originally funded by Elon Musk) testified before Congress and noted that while he sees great benefits in new AI systems, the possibilities of their abuses are evident. The Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
May 18, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, Featured, Robert J. Marks}

“Artificial Intelligence: Will Machines Take Over?”

_{Watch John Lennox and Robert J. Marks speak on AI in this "Science Uprising" video} _{News

May 18, 2023

1

Artificial Intelligence}

From May 9-30, the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute is running a film festival on YouTube to highlight some of its top videos. We’ll be highlighting different videos throughout the month. Today we are screening the most recent video from our popular series Science Uprising which delves into the topic of artificial intelligence, featuring John Lennox and Robert J. Marks:

Meteorological probe drone on white balloon on sky. Concept secret espionage and climate change monitoring. Generation AI

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
February 13, 2023

Categorized
China

Tagged
Air Space, China, espionage, Featured, Military, Robert J. Marks, Space Force, Spy Balloon, Surveillance, United States, war}

China Balloons, EMP’s and Bioweapons: A Chilling Possibility

_{One nuclear burst 250 miles above Kansas could damage most of the power grid} _{Robert J. Marks

February 13, 2023

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China}

No one has mentioned that the China balloon recently shot down after sailing across the United States could have been weaponized with a bomb or bioweapons. Thankfully, it was not. A single nuclear burst 250 miles above Kansas could destabilize much if not most of the US power grid. Almost the entire country, as well as parts of Mexico and Canada, would be affected by the resulting EMP (electromagnetic pulse). 250 miles above the Earth is about as high as the US Space Station is from Earth. Potential military threats from outer space was a prime motivation for creating the United States Space Force in 2019. The China balloon was not 250 miles up required for a coast-to-coast EMP Read More ›

Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern

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Author
News
Date
January 23, 2023

Categorized
Censorship, Media, Social Media

Tagged
Brendan O'Neill, Disinformation success rate, Featured, Jacinda Ardern, Media and disinformation, Michael Cook, Russia disinformation claims}

Jacinda Ardern’s War on Free Speech Always Deserved To Fail

_{Now researchers have shown why. The departing New Zealand Prime Minister claimed that “prolific misinformation” is a new weapon of war} _{News

January 23, 2023

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Censorship, Media, Social Media}

This piece by MercatorNet editor Michael Cook (January 20, 2023) is reprinted with permission. In October last year, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, told the United Nations General Assembly that what the world needs is less free speech. Well, not exactly that, but close enough. She pressed for vigorous censorship of the internet because “prolific misinformation” is a new weapon of war. “How do you successfully end a war if people are led to believe the reason for its existence is not only legal but noble?” she asked. “How do you tackle climate change if people do not believe it exists?” The prospect of government censorship of our views on climate change or the war in Ukraine is Read More ›

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Author
Eric Holloway
Date
January 16, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
ChatGPT, ChatGPT and humans in the loop, Featured, Microsoft, Microsoft and ChatGPT}

Found! ChatGPT’s Humans in the Loop!

_{I am the only writer I’ve been able to discover who is suggesting ChatGPT has humans in the loop. Here is a series of telling excerpts from our last conversation…} _{Eric Holloway

January 16, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

The new ChatGPT chatbot has wowed the internet. While students revel in the autogenerated homework assignments, the truly marvelous property of ChatGPT is its very humanlike interactions. When you converse with ChatGPT you could swear there was a human on the other end, if you didn’t know better. For all intents and purposes, ChatGPT has achieved the holy grail of AI and passed the Turing test, on a global scale. Always quick to snatch a deal, Microsoft is currently in talks to spend a mere $10B to acquire half “the lightcone of all future value.” However, things are not always what they seem. Previously, I pointed out aspects of ChatGPT that implied humans were helping craft the chatbot’s responses. Now, Read More ›

3D rendered fantasy alien planet. Rocks and moon

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Author
Gary Varner
Date
January 14, 2023

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Science Fiction

Tagged
Bortus (character in the Orville series), Charly (character in Orvilles 3), Dr. Finn (Orville character), Ed Mercer (character in Orville series), Featured, Gordon Malloy (character in Orville series), Heveena (character in the Orville series), Isaac (robot in Orvilles 3), Kelly Grayson (character in Orville series), Klyden (character in the Orville series), LaMarr (character in Orvilles 3), Lysella (character in Orville series), Moclans in Orville sci-fi series, Orville Season Three summary view, Seth MacFarlane, Star Trek vs. Orville, Straw man argument, Topa (character in the Orville series)}

Final Thoughts on The Orville Season Three — What Went Wrong

_{Unlike Star Trek, which put conflicting opinions in the mouths of beloved characters, Orville 3 screams its opinions to the point of harming the story} _{Gary Varner

January 14, 2023

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Arts & Culture, Science Fiction}

What a terrible season! I remember watching the beginning episodes of The Orville and thinking the show wasn’t quite there yet but held promise. Sadly, things did not improve with time. I think part of the problem is that The Orville was taken over by Hulu which is now owned by Disney. This, likely, prompted a degree of studio involvement that dropped the show’s quality. The Orville tried to address controversial subjects, just as Star Trek did years before. But it did not understand or reproduce the most important ingredient of the way the classic sci-fi series dealt with such topics. Star Trek used its main characters as voices that represented various positions. This is not to say that Star Read More ›

Doctor Helps get up . Sick . Elderly Patient.

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Author
News
Date
January 11, 2023

Categorized
Medicine and Health, Neuroscience, Psychology

Tagged
Epileptic seizures, Featured, Functional blindness, Functional gait disorders, neurology, Non-epileptic seizures, Subconscious mind, unconscious mind}

When It’s Not Clear If a Disorder Is From the Brain or the Mind…

_{Neurologist Andrew Knox explains to Robert J. Marks that some psychological problems appear as if they were brain problems — yet there’s nothing wrong with the brain} _{News

January 11, 2023

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Medicine and Health, Neuroscience, Psychology}

In the podcast released last Thursday, Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks interviewed pediatric neurologist Dr. Andrew Knox from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health on “Ways the brain can break” (#220, January 5, 2023). What follows is Part 4 of the discussion, “When it’s not clear if a disorder is from the brain or the mind…” Here are Part 1: How our brains are — and aren’t — like computers, Part 2: What is happening when children have strokes or dementia signs?, and Part 3: How do strokes, dementia offer insight into how the brain works? https://mindmatters.ai/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Mind-Matters-220-Andrew-Knox-Episode-1.mp3 This portion begins at roughly 25:15 min. A partial transcript and notes, and Additional Resources follow. Epileptic Read More ›

Digital chatbot, robot application, conversation assistant, AI Artificial Intelligence concept.

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
January 11, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Politics

Tagged
Ben Shapiro, bias, Blake Lemoine and LaMDA, Chatbot failings, Chatbot poetry, chatbots, ChatGPT, ChatGPT and bias, Donald Trump, Featured, Gary Smith on chatbots, OpenAI}

Note to Parents: Grooming and Wokeness Are Embedded in Chatbots

_{With or without tuning, all AI chatbots are biased one way or another. AI without bias is like water without wet} _{Robert J. Marks

January 11, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Politics}

First impressions of a person can be wrong. Further interactions can reveal disturbing personality warts. Contrary to initial impressions, we might find out they lie, they are disturbingly woke, they can’t do simple math, their politics is on the extreme left, and they have no sense of humor or common sense. I have just described Open AI’s GPT3 chatbot, ChatGPT. Initially, users are gobsmacked by the its performance. Its flashy prose responses to simple queries look amazing. But become roommates with the chatbot for a few hours and its shortcomings become evident . It can’t get its facts straight, can’t do simple math problems, hates Donald Trump, and is being groomed to be “woke.” Its performance warts are so numerous that Bradley Center Senior Fellow Gary N. Smith hoists a Read More ›

Health care researchers working in life science laboratory, medical science technology research work for test a vaccine, coronavirus covid-19 vaccine protection cure treatment

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Author
News
Date
January 11, 2023

Categorized
Peer Review, Philosophy, Science

Tagged
Featured, John Horgan, Kelsey Piper, Rob Sheldon on space science decline, Science decline, Space Physics Paradox (NAS 1994), The End of Science (Little Brown 1996), Tibi Puiu}

Gloomy News from a Nature Article: Is the End of Science Near?

_{A study in the premier science journal notes the long term falling off of truly original findings, as opposed to endless citations of others’ findings} _{News

January 11, 2023

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Peer Review, Philosophy, Science}

Science writer Tibi Puiu reports on new findings that reflect what many today, have begun to suspect: Over the past few decades, the number of science and technology research papers published has soared, rising at a rate of nearly 10% each year. In the biomedical field alone, there are more than a million papers pouring into the PubMed database each year, or around two studies per minute… The new study revealed that the “disruptiveness” of contemporary science has decreased, rendering ever diminishing returns. In this particular context, authors define disruptiveness as the degree to which a study departs from previous literature and renders it obsolete. In other words, a highly disruptive study is one that completely changes the way we Read More ›

Sick asian senior woman fainted unconscious at the table, fall face down,elderly female patient stop breathing due to heart failure, cardiac arrest,severe arrhythmia, sudden unexpected death syndrome.

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Author
News
Date
January 9, 2023

Categorized
Medicine and Health, Neuroscience

Tagged
Alzheimer's disease, Andrew Knox, Dementia, Featured, Juvenile Huntington's disease, Memory formation, Memory loss, Robert J. Marks, Strokes, Syncope}

How Do Strokes, Dementia Offer Insight Into How the Brain Works?

_{Neurologist Andrew Knox thinks the brain may store memories is an associative scheme, where previous memories are used to build up new ones} _{News

January 9, 2023

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Medicine and Health, Neuroscience}

In the podcast released last Thursday, Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks interviewed pediatric neurologist Dr. Andrew Knox from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health on “Ways the brain can break” (#220, January 5, 2023). What follows is from Part 3 of the discussion. Here’s Part 1: How our brains are — and aren’t — like computers and Part 2: What is happening when children have strokes or dementia signs? https://mindmatters.ai/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Mind-Matters-220-Andrew-Knox-Episode-1.mp3 This portion begins at roughly 18:25 min. A partial transcript and notes, and Additional Resources follow. The discussion began with the question, “How does the brain store memories?” Andrew Knox: There are different schemes for storing memories, but patients with Alzheimer’s seem to have Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
January 9, 2023

Categorized
Censorship, Social Media

Tagged
Bari Weiss, Bias in media, Featured, Jack Dorsey, Karl D. Stephan, Twitter, Wilfred Reilly}

What? Twitter is “neutral”? A thoughtful engineer responds

_{Despite appearances, Twitter is not a conventional public square, but a private corporation} _{News

January 9, 2023

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Censorship, Social Media}

This column by Texas State University engineering prof Karl Stephan is republished with thanks from Engineering Ethics (January 2, 2023) Back when I started this blog in 2006, the phrase “social media” was hardly used by anybody, according to Google Trends. It began to climb above 1% of its current frequency of use around 2008, possibly in connection with the elections of that year, and has been climbing ever since. Twitter, the social-media format that has become the default medium of choice for announcements by Presidents on down, was also founded in 2006. From an obscure techie-speak term, it has turned into a routine and near-universal medium of expression that its leadership has claimed is as neutral as they can make it. But Read More ›

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Author
Richard W. Stevens
Date
January 9, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Law

Tagged
Artificial intelligence in law, Do Not Pay (corporation), Featured, Josh Browder, Litigation}

You’ve Got a Robot Lawyer in Your Pocket (Really?)

_{The DoNotPay AI lawyer program might be useful for fighting parking tickets but it is unsuited to serious litigation where much more complex issues are at stake} _{Richard W. Stevens

January 9, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Law}

The Gutfeld! program on Fox News on January 6, 2023, recently had fun discussing robots replacing lawyers to practice law. In faux serious rhyme, Greg Gutfeld intoned: “Can a computer that’s self aware, keep you from the electric chair?” Sparking the conversation was the report that an artificial intelligence (AI) smartphone app was slated to assist a defendant fighting a parking ticket in a currently-undisclosed courtroom: Gigabytes of text could stream forth addressing the near infinite number of questions raised about robot lawyers. For now, let’s just explore the “robot lawyer” app built by DoNotPay. The company’s website declares: “The DoNotPay app is the home of the world’s first robot lawyer. Fight corporations, beat bureaucracy and sue anyone at the Read More ›