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Robert J. Marks
Date
June 30, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Google, IBM, internet, Microsoft, mind matters, Robert J. Marks}

Revisiting the Mission of Mind Matters

_{Robert J. Marks on why Mind Matters (still) matters} _{Robert J. Marks
June 30, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Originally posted in 2018. Mind Matters is a podcast and a news and commentary site where “artificial and natural intelligence meet head-on.” That’s a great slogan, but what does it mean? As your host for the podcast part of the site, I thought I’d take advantage of my role to talk you about some of our exciting plans for both the podcast and the online journal (the latter to be edited by science journalist Denyse O’Leary). Here’s a quick run-down: Topics Mind Matters will track the latest developments in applied AI and technology. How will AI continue to augment human performance and abilities? What are the latest innovations of AI? And how does AI affect you? How is AI applied in pricing Read More ›

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News
Date
June 30, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence

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AI, ChatGPT, critical thinking, Google, OpenAI, Satire, Technology, Writing}

AI Can Do It All So You Don’t Have To

_{Sometimes satire says it best} _{News
June 30, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Satire is often best at uncovering uncomfortable truths. Much of the talk around AI progress celebrates its ability to make certain tasks way easier, such as writing essays, programming computer code, or firing your employees. While that is certainly true, the concern remains that if we depend on AI like this for long enough we might just forget how to put two and two together and write a sentence over ten words long. That’s probably cynical, but the principle is there – depending on technology to perform mental tasks will lessen the ability to independently perform those same mental tasks. The popular satire site The Onion published a paragraph about a hypothetical man who is delighted about AI because it Read More ›

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Peter Biles
Date
June 29, 2023

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Economics

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Acton Institute, AI, banks, capitalism, Centralization, COVID-19, Creativity, economics, George Gilder, Human exceptionalism, Innovation, Life After Capitalism (book), Samuel Gregg, Technology}

New Review of “Life After Capitalism” Amplifies Book’s Core Themes

_{Returning to the "mind-centered economy" where knowledge is wealth} _{Peter Biles
June 29, 2023

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Economics}

A new review of George Gilder’s latest book Life After Capitalism from Samuel Gregg highlights the need for the return of the “mind-centered economy,” in which governmental bureaucracies no longer hamper human creativity and imagination. When capitalistic, democratic societies fall for materialistic presuppositions of the world, they end up resembling socialist contexts in which the state is everything and individual men and women are squelched. Gregg writes at the Acton power blog, [Gilder]takes this notion of the free human mind as the decisive factor in driving economic growth and applies it across the board to economic theory, technology, and our understanding of money. Looking at the question of incentives, for example, Gilder points out that they would yield nothing in Read More ›

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News
Date
June 29, 2023

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Technology

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AI, COSM 2022, Innovation, Nanocosm, Technology}

The New Nanocosm

_{What are the emerging technologies that hold great promise for human prosperity?} _{News
June 29, 2023

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Technology}

We’ve been highlighting several videos from the 2022 COSM Conference, which took place in Bellevue, Washington last November and featured a number of highly prominent leaders and innovators in technology and science. Today’s video features a panel representing companies on the leading edge of technology applications. They discuss emerging technologies that hold great promise for human prosperity — from the conversion of waste to clean energy; to the production of graphene for a multitude of uses including building materials, lubricants, composites and coatings, sensors, and energy harvesting and storage; to revolutionary nanorobotic machines that can target and kill individual cancer cells. Visit the Center for Intelligence’s YouTube page for many more lectures, panels, and interviews from COSM 2022 and past Read More ›

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News
Date
June 28, 2023

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Technology

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, COVID-19, Pandemic, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Walter Meyers III}

The End of Silicon Valley?

_{What will remote work do to Silicon Valley in the longterm?} _{News
June 28, 2023

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Technology}

The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new era of hybrid work, and allowed many workers to operate remotely. What does this mean for major tech centers like Silicon Valley and Seattle? And what are the advantages for competitors like Austin and Miami? In this lecture, hear a panel discuss these issues and related concerns at the 2021 COSM conference. We’ve been sharing a number of lectures from past COSM conferences. This video is just one of many you can find at the Bradley Center’s YouTube page. There you’ll find several lectures, interviews, and panels dealing with issues that range from economics, Big Tech, and artificial intelligence. Notable speakers include 2022 Kyoto Prize winner Carver Mead, venture capitalist Peter Thiel, and George Gilder, co-founder of Discovery Read More ›

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News
Date
June 26, 2023

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Science

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AI, Andrew Wiles, Anna Karenina, calculus, computer, David Berlinksi, DNA, Einstein, Evolution News, Mathematics, Oppenheimer, Science After Babel (book)}

Iterations of Immortality

_{If it is beauty that governs the mathematician’s soul, it is truth and certainty that remind him of his duty} _{News
June 26, 2023

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Science}

by David Berlinski Editor’s note: We are delighted to welcome Science After Babel, the latest book from mathematician and philosopher David Berlinski. This article is adapted from Chapter 7. The calculus and the rich body of mathematical analysis to which it gave rise made modern science possible, but it was the algorithm that made possible the modern world. They are utterly different, these ideas. The calculus serves the imperial vision of mathematical physics. It is a vision in which the real elements of the world are revealed to be its elementary constituents: particles, forces, fields, or even a strange fused combination of space and time. Written in the language of mathematics, a single set of fearfully compressed laws describes their secret Read More ›

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Gary Varner
Date
June 24, 2023

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Arts & Culture

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AI, Arts and Culture, Consciousness, Gary Varner, HBO, Max, Movies and TV, Robert J. Marks, Robots, Science fiction, Westworld}

Westworld: Episode 2 Review

_{The whole point of the show is to explore a theory of consciousness} _{Gary Varner
June 24, 2023

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Arts & Culture}

In episode one, several robots break down. It appears they are accessing memories thanks to an unexpected update, which causes the robots to glitch and seize up, unable to communicate. The updated robots are recalled and the worst of them are decommissioned. In episode two, Dolores wakes up, hearing Bernard’s voice in the middle of the night. She goes outside, and it’s later revealed that she finds a gun buried in the dirt. After we’ve seen Dolores rise from her bed thanks to Bernard’s call, we meet William. He and his future brother-in-law are visiting the park. This is William’s first time in Westworld, and he isn’t excited to be there. He’s humoring his future relative. Episode two continues in Read More ›

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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
June 23, 2023

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Environment

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AI, Andrew McDiarmid, ChatGPT, Inventions, Nature, social media, Technology}

John Muir and the Pleasures of Nature

_{The inventor-turned-naturalist can teach us the benefits of loving the natural world} _{Andrew McDiarmid
June 23, 2023

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Environment}

April 21 is John Muir’s birthday. Muir is typically remembered as one of America’s foremost naturalists, father of our national parks and a tireless defender of the wilderness. But he might very well have been none of those things. As a young man, Muir was gifted at building machines, and he was set to pursue a career in technology until everything went dark. Literally. Revisiting this little-known chapter of Muir’s life can inspire us to better navigate our own relationship to technology and give us a fresh reason to celebrate his work. In 1849, Muir left his homeland of Scotland and moved with his family to the backwoods of Wisconsin. Farm work, chores, and family Bible studies kept him busy Read More ›

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News
Date
June 22, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

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AI, AI Arms Race, Artificial Intelligence, chatbots, Facebook, Futurism, Google, Maggie Harrison, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta}

Meta’s Weird New Speech AI

_{Scammers have already capitalized on this kind of technology. Is it a mistake for Meta to push for it?} _{News
June 22, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Meta has announced a new AI system called Voicebox, a text to audio translator that can mimic the voice of loved ones. All you need is a mere two seconds of authentic audio and the bot will extrapolate whole sentences in that person’s voice. Meta noted the technology will be helpful for those who are visually impaired and who want to hear messages or texts read to them in a voice they know. A blog on the Meta site reads, Like generative systems for images and text, Voicebox creates outputs in a vast variety of styles, and it can create outputs from scratch as well as modify a sample it’s given. But instead of creating a picture or a passage Read More ›

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News
Date
June 22, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, Discovery Institute, Dystopian, George Gilder, Jay Richards, Machines, Robert J. Marks, Science fiction}

The One Thing Only Humans Can Do

_{What makes human beings unique? Will artificial intelligence take over our jobs?} _{News
June 22, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

What makes human beings unique? Will artificial intelligence take over our jobs? The Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, which publishes Mind Matters, was launched largely to respond to questions like these. In a panel discussion at the Dallas launch of the Bradley Center, Baylor Professor of Computer Engineering Robert J. Marks offered some thoughts on the evening’s topic, “Will ‘Smart’ Machines Take Over Our Jobs?” This is a great video to watch if you’re new to Mind Matters or are interested in learning more about the unique perspective of the Bradley Center. Marks doesn’t offer doomsday approximations of the future of AI, but neither does he disregard the challenges it poses. According to him, though, there’s one Read More ›

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Richard W. Stevens and Robert J. Marks
Date
June 22, 2023

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AI, AI in the courtroom, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Intellectual Property, Legal, Richard Stevens, Robert J. Marks}

Can Lawyer Robots Solve Complex Legal Cases?

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June 22, 2023

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A lawyer recently used ChatGPT in a court case, but it generated false citations. Can AI be trusted at all in the courtroom? Lawyer Richard Stevens explains how in legal cases, meaning, context, and nuance are essential, and can’t be “computed” by artificial intelligence. Additional Resources

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Eric Holloway
Date
June 21, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence

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AI, AI and creativity, Big Tech, ChatGPT, Eric Holloway, Human creativity, Human exceptionalism, Information Theory, Shannon entropy, Silicon Valley}

Can AI Create its Own Information?

_{The simple answer is "no," but why? Eric Holloway explains} _{Eric Holloway
June 21, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

AI is amazing. It is all the rage these days. Companies everywhere are jumping on the AI bandwagon. No one wants to be left behind when true believers are raptured to the mainframe in the sky. What makes the AI work? The AI works because of information it gained from a human generated dataset. Let’s label the dataset D. We can measure the information in the dataset with Shannon entropy. Represent the information with H(D). When we train an AI with this data, we are applying a mathematical function to the dataset. This function is the training algorithm. Labelling the training algorithm T, then we represent training as T(D). The outcome of training is a new AI model. The model generates new data. We Read More ›

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News
Date
June 19, 2023

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Transhumanism

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AI, Consciousness, Culture, machine, Mary Harrington, Paul Kingsnorth, religion, The West, transhumanism, UnHerd, YouTube}

Two Writers on Transhumanist Trends

_{Paul Kingsnorth and Mary Harrington discuss the modern urge to throw off all natural limits} _{News
June 19, 2023

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Transhumanism}

This is a conversation from a year ago but nevertheless remains radically pertinent today. Paul Kingsnorth and Mary Harrington, both who have written on various modern trends to try and transcend bodily limits, sat down on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube channel to have a chat. Both have written for the online magazine UnHerd, but up until this point, had never interacted with each other. Kingsnorth is a former environmentalist who became disillusioned with the movement and eventually converted to Orthodox Christianity. He is also a novelist and currently lives a simple life in Ireland. Harrington is a contributing editor of UnHerd and writes on feminism, politics, and other pressing cultural issues. Both believe that the urge to throw off human Read More ›

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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
June 19, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence

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AI, Andrew McDiarmid, Artificial Intelligence, Computers, Gaming AI (book), George Gilder, Pixar, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence (book), thinking, WALL-E (film)}

AI Could Take Us Over, But Not In the Way You Might Expect

_{Revisiting last year's article from tech critic Andrew McDiarmid} _{Andrew McDiarmid
June 19, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

As I reported last year, there’s been a lot of talk about a singularity in the last decade. That’s the point when machine intelligence (AI) exceeds human intelligence and begins to rule humanity and eventually the entire universe. It’s a scary proposition to be sure, but we can rest easy on that front, because it’s not going to happen. The futurists assume there’s a bridge between narrow applications of AI and the general intelligence humans possess. But no such bridge exists. As Erik J. Larson explains in his book The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, we’re not even on the right road to such a bridge. You can also take George Gilder’s word for it. One of the most influential thinkers on technology and economics Read More ›

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Peter Biles
Date
June 17, 2023

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Arts & Culture, Transhumanism

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AI, C.S. Lewis, ChatGPT, Creativity, Dystopian, internet, J.R.R. Tolkien, mind matters, Oxford, Paul Kingsnorth, Science fiction, Technology, That Hideous Strength}

That Hideous Strength, A.K.A. Transhumanism

_{C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction tale is about the temptation to reject being human} _{Peter Biles
June 17, 2023

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Arts & Culture, Transhumanism}

C.S. Lewis’s 1946 science fiction novel That Hideous Strength is almost eighty years old now. Written during the throes of World War II, the novel is the culmination of Lewis’s cosmic trilogy, preluded by Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra. There are hosts of other articles attending to the prescience of Lewis’s terrifying novel, and for good reason; That Hideous Strength is a warning against using technology to dehumanize people and ultimately cripple the world into submission. It’s a great book as a novel, but it seems especially appropriate to revisit in lieu of the growing interest in transhumanism and the rapid acceleration of AI development. It feels like much of the talk on AI in recent months involves Read More ›

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News
Date
June 16, 2023

Categorized
Technology

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Bradley Center, COSM, COSM 2021, Discovery Institute, George Gilder, Innovation, Technology}

A Cloud of Converging Technologies

_{We are entering the roaring 2020s, technologically speaking} _{News
June 16, 2023

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Technology}

We are on the cusp of a Roaring 2020s. Mark Mills, author of The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s, proposes that the convergence of revolutions in three technology spheres is unleashing the next great economic boom: the means for accessing and propagating information, the machines that represent the means of production, and the materials domain from which we fabricate everything that exists. Watch him explain and defend his ideas in this informative lecture from the 2022 COSM Conference. We’ve been sharing a number of lectures from past COSM conferences. This video is just one of many you can find at the Bradley Center’s YouTube page. There you’ll find Read More ›

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Richard W. Stevens
Date
June 16, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence

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AI, Bradley Center, Legal decisions and artificial intelligence (case study), Newsmax, Robert J. Marks, Warhol v. Goldsmith}

Making Sense of the Warhol v. Goldsmith Supreme Court Case

_{Lawyer Richard W. Stevens sheds light on a recent groundbreaking court case that has implications for generative AI and copyright issues} _{Richard W. Stevens
June 16, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Here is an excerpt of the transcript from a recent Mind Matters podcast episode, which you can listen to in full here. Lawyer and Walter Bradley Center Fellow Richard W. Stevens sat down with Robert J. Marks to discuss a Supreme Court Case regarding AI and copyright issues. Stevens helps us understand more of what the case is about and what’s at stake. For more on this, read about the court case’s conclusion here, as well as Marks’s commentary from Newsmax. Richard Stevens: So to boil this down, the situation was this. A woman by the name of Lynn Goldsmith, a professional photographer, took a photo of the musician named Prince. Later, Andy Warhol was paid to produce an orange Read More ›

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Richard W. Stevens and Robert J. Marks
Date
June 15, 2023

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Richard W. Stevens, Robert J. Marks}

AI Libel and Responsibility

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June 15, 2023

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What happens when ChatGPT doesn’t just generate false information but also slanderous and potentially harmful responses? And in legal matters, who is responsible for AI? Robert J. Marks and legal expert Richard W. Stevens discuss these topics and more in this week’s podcast episode. Additional Resources

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Jeffrey Funk
Date
June 14, 2023

Categorized
Technology

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Conspiracy theories, COVID-19 and trust in science, data, Disinformation, Gary Smith, Google, Hillary Clinton, internet, Jeffrey Funk, LinkedIn, Mainstream Media, Moon landing, Oxford University Press, Pizzagate, Russia}

Review of Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science

_{Tech expert Jeffrey Funk reviews Gary Smith's enlightening new book on data, disinformation, and the "assault on science"} _{Jeffrey Funk
June 14, 2023

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Technology}

The pandemic proved a lot of things, one of them being that science is under assault. In this enlightening and entertaining new book, Professor Gary Smith shows us how much of the assault has its roots in what scientists do. The easiest impact to understand is the Internet, which was originally created by scientists in the 1970s to exchange scientific information. Now it has become a great way to spread disinformation on almost every subject. A former chief historian of NASA noted that: “The reality is, the internet has made it possible for people to say whatever the hell they like to a broader number of people than ever before.” Smith recounts endless examples of this disinformation, much of which Read More ›

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Peter Biles
Date
June 14, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

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AI, AI Church, Associated Press, ChatGPT, Church, Climate change, Fox News, OpenAI, Ukraine}

AI Plays the Reverend

_{An AI chatbot gave a sermon at a church in Germany, allegedly telling congregants "not to fear death."} _{Peter Biles
June 14, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

An AI chatbot gave a sermon at a church in Germany, allegedly telling congregants “not to fear death.” University of Vienna theologian and philosopher Jonas Simmerlein was responsible for the service and for giving the ChatGPT bot its prompts. Talk about eerie. Even churches are starting to incorporate AI into their homilies. Simmerlein noted that overall the chatbot gave “a pretty solid service,” and included psalms, prayers, and also mentions of climate change and Ukraine. Not all the congregants got the same impression. Per the report from Fox News, in conjunction with the Associated Press, some church attendants felt put off by the chatbot’s mechanical and impersonal delivery. One woman expressed, “There was no heart and no soul,” Heiderose Schmidt, Read More ›