The breakthroughs have come from human creativity. Computers have served as powerful tools for implementing innovations, but they did not invent them.
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To solve Micro Softie 85, ask yourself, when would a slightly smaller caliber bullet than the enemy uses be a definite advantage?
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Why would a military force decide to use a slightly different caliber of bullets from the one used by the enemy force?
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The people who do not trust science today would probably like to be able to. And the people who do trust it may simply be unaware of the problems.
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To solve last week’s puzzle, we should picture what must happen when every bug wants to place itself between two other bugs.
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Neurologist Brian Edlow hopes that brain–computer interface technology like Neuralink will help researchers communicate with covertly conscious people.
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Shermer’s coverage of issues like the design inference and irreducible complexity is embarrassingly shallow.
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The inventions that changed our lives for the better were usually accompanied by speculation bubbles and busts. LLM firms will likely attract the same fate.
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To solve last week’s puzzle, keep in mind that every termite is doing the same thing.
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The calling is to be involved, to be on the site, with your hands in the work, and building with theological clarity and human dignity at the center.
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Swarm intelligence enables the colony to converge on the shortest and most efficient path to food without any individual being especially smart.
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One unusual feature is that driver attention is monitored and inattentive drivers can have the self-driving mode suspended.
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AI displays very impressive horizontal integration (integrating existing concepts) but not vertical integration (entirely new inventions).
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Unfortunately, some of them spend a lot of time trying to discredit people who are willing to look at these questions.
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The simpler explanation, he says, is that percepts, perceptions travel through axons. Conceptions don’t travel through axons because they’re not material.
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A misguided article in Popular Mechanics gave neurosurgeon Michael Egnor a chance to shed light on a unique fact about people with split brains here.
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If organoid computing succeeds, the next generation of computers may need both software updates and daily feedings.
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Here are a dozen tips for detecting fake and misleading articles about artificial intelligence.
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Some of the theories of animal mind are interesting but no one really has any idea how consciousness originated.
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Automated writing leads to a decline in intellectual skills for the same reasons as automated walking would lead to a decline in motor skills.
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