All these intellectual worthies choose to miss the point: No life form other than humans writes books, reviews books, or contemplates any of the issues raised.
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There seems less interest today in maintaining a “subhuman” status for our Neanderthal ancestors. It’s good if that sort of thing makes people uncomfortable.
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I personally favor modernizing the civil laws against libel and defamation to take into account the type of injuries that chatbots can inflict.
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Last week’s puzzle is easy to solve if we recall how many parents a child needs and of what type…
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Alpha School students are said to advance an average of 2.6× faster than peers on nationally normed MAP (Measures of Academic Progress) tests and frequently score in the 99th percentile.
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Despite a swamp of scandals, the focus of discussion seems to be getting the public to trust again, not reform of the system.
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New technologies enable ideas and abilities that are latent in human beings to take form. Thus claims about the evolution of consciousness are problematic.
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Bigger data centers are not going to change the harsh reality that LLMs are prone to generating unreliable blather.
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Claims that an LLM is intelligent don’t square with the fact that it may answer a question one way and, a few seconds later, simply contradict itself.
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The authors really believe in AI doom. Soares has stopped contributing to a retirement plan. I show that the serious problem is NOT superintelligence.
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Carole Hooven discovered that, where the sex binary nature of humans is concerned, the new elite at Harvard and The Lancet thrive on nonsense. But she can’t.
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The conventional belief that a sound investment portfolio should be 60% stocks and 40% bonds does not stand up to careful scrutiny.
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One effect of the presumption of atheism in science is that all kinds of speculation can be grandfathered as reasonable scientific thinking.
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If intelligence essentially involves agency, artificial general intelligence (AGI) in the human sense is not attainable by computation alone.
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NDEs do change lives but, according to a recent study, NDErs often require counseling and not many counselors are equipped to support them.
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Something has changed if the magic word “Evolution!” cannot be used to paper over vast improbabilities and silence dissenters in the way that it has for over a century.
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Social media addictions clearly cause harm among minors but the tech giants who profit by them won’t regulate themselves in any meaningful way.
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Suggesting a trend, a new book which aims to dethrone materialism in science, has been selling well in Europe and coming out shortly in English.
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The episode is part of a much broader picture: When private truth beats public truth, ideology quickly overrules science.
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The Chinese Room thought experiment helped us see the nature of computation, as opposed to human thinking.
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