Ted Gioia writes, books “offer an escape from the degraded digital domains, where duplicity is now dictated by the largest platforms with the richest owners.”
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The transgender movement, like the teacher-driven war on math, has embraced the Skeptics’ own approach to reality and now uses it for ITS purposes.
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At present, it doesn’t sound as though consciousness studies can take us beyond our natural folk understanding of consciousness.
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It’s curious that so few notice a much more serious threat to science than current politics is: the calls that are coming from inside the house.
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Hamed Rajabi hopes that “mechanical intelligence,” modeled on evolution, not on software design, will break new ground.
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Hal Philipp’s inventions underpin automatic faucets, door sensors, and the capacitive touchscreens that made the smartphone era possible. In this podcast, he offers a candid field guide to turning ideas into impact. The discussion ranges from startup structure and venture capital to patent warfare, corporate brinkmanship, and the social aftershocks of the iPhone. Philipp is interviewed by Robert J. Marks and Bradley Norris. Engineering education Marks opens with a challenge to engineering education. Universities excel at training graduates for Boeing or Motorola, but seldom spotlight entrepreneurship as a viable path. Philipp agrees and then complicates the picture. If he could rewind, he says, he would “get a little more assistance,” likely allying with a larger organization to gain leverage. In Read More ›
In an era where politicians, celebrities, and businesses can get away with blatant untruths with little or no consequence, will the same be true of LLMs?
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Science, as both Darwinian Jerry Coyne and his non-materialist opponents know it, is one forlorn casualty of late-stage materialism, the world of private truth.
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When we swipe a phone or tap a touchscreen, few of us realize how much engineering — and legal grit — underlies that simple gesture. In an interview with Mind Matters podcasting, inventor Hal Philipp traces the path from lone tinkerer to successful founder, and finally to weary veteran of patent warfare. Philipp, a key inventor behind modern capacitive sensing and touchscreens, delivers a sober message for innovators: invention is only half the battle; defending your invention can define your company’s fate. From Single-Point Touch to a Full Touchscreen Philipp’s early work focused on single-channel capacitive sensors — one-button touch or proximity detection. The breakthrough came when he generalized the idea into linear touch sliders and then into a circular Read More ›
Life would be so much easier for thinkmags if the mind were simply what the brain does. But wait. No one would produce thinkmags either.
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We remain confronted by the same old mystery: who, or what, imagines the birdhouse in the first place?
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But here’s the punchline: I was wrong on an important point and Copilot let me stay wrong!
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His business grew — not from grand design — but from a series of smart, well-timed responses to opportunity.
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Researcher Yair Pinto summed it up: In split-brain, patients, perception is split, but consciousness is unified.
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LLMs excel at simple coding tasks but are still too unreliable to use without extensive human supervision on complex tasks where mistakes are expensive.
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Micro Softy 37 is easier to guess if you think about what the two teams have in common that might change the opening ceremonies somewhat…
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Dr. Avian was sure that he had found a formula for intelligence without anything like a human mind, and his program appeared to be working.
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The conventional assumption today is that consciousness has a material source. Yet no one has found a place where it lives in the brain.
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Humans are terrible at crunching data but remarkably good at seeing clues. That’s why we still outmatch our machines in domains where meaning matters.
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Users, whose output is used to train the AI systems, will pay higher electricity costs on account of them while experts eventually earn top salaries.
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