So far, AI is dragging down economic growth by diverting so much human talent and natural resources away from more productive uses.
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From a secular humanist perspective, he says roughly what Aristotle (384– 322 BC) and Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) would say about our unique human nature.
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The danger is not that computers are smarter than us but that we think they are and thus trust them to make decisions they should not be trusted to make.
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Someone blinded by confirmation bias might believe that robots and Go victories are evidence that ChatGPT would be a reliable lawyer.
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Readers have brought to my attention a review article on the effect of split-brain surgery on consciousness. “Split-Brain: What We Know Now and Why This is Important for Understanding Consciousness” (2020) by Yair Pinto and his colleagues is an interesting open-access article, well worth reading for anyone interested in the topic. From the abstract: [Split-brain surgery] leads to a broad breakdown of functional integration ranging from perception to attention. However, the breakdown is not absolute as several processes, such as action control, seem to remain unified. Disagreement exists about the responsible mechanisms for this remaining unity. The main issue concerns the first-person perspective of a split-brain patient. Does a split-brain harbor a split consciousness or is consciousness unified? The current Read More ›
I offer four reasons that we can know that free will is real, drawn from human behavior, law, ethics, and physics.
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According to Ewert, Ray Kurzweil’s famed Singularity is not possible because AI cannot create an intelligence greater than itself.
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Fr. Hilbert shows that we have not found anything that justifies a Darwinian approach to life as somehow more compatible with science than a Christian one.
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It’s no wonder that techno-futurists trumpet a coming machine intelligence with such ease — they’ve lowered the standards so much to begin with.
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In the short run this system is being propped up by the big tech players but for a stable future, it needs to be self-sustaining.
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The recent ruling is an important step in the right direction although much litigation will ensue.
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As Scambray observes, in the end, Darwin did not really need to provide clinching evidence. Intellectuals already *believed in* evolution and that was enough.
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“The world is intelligible,” Ross Douthat said to Jonah Goldberg on “The Remnant” podcast. Douthat, an opinion columnist at The New York Times, has a new book coming out on religion and why “everyone should be more religious,” and he joined Goldberg to discuss the book along with our current political landscape. Douthat, a Catholic, referenced fine tuning and the profound evidence of intentional design in nature as one of the motivations for his own faith. He told Goldberg that it’s remarkable that we have minds that are able to accurately comprehend the world around us, let alone the chemical makeup of the universe. Our questioning natures, bent on discovering the truth of things, demonstrate that we live in something Read More ›
Here’s the problem with the use case for LLMs: If you know the answer, you don’t need to ask an LLM; if you don’t know the answer, you can’t trust one.
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The new reality is one where efficiency, not just brute computing power, will dictate the future of artificial intelligence.
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Alberto Chierici realized that a machine can analyze information about a sunrise but can never experience it as a moment of “quiet awe.”
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In one test, for example — not understanding the situation — Open AI launched an extremely verbose and confused description of the situation.
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The data that China-based companies collect may be sold on the black market by employees who make much less than average tech wages elsewhere.
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Was a journal that tries to explain the origin of the unique human mind without any reference to the Mind that created the universe bound to end up here?
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