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AI Got Booed Off the Stage 

Graduating seniors don't all approve of the technology's growing presence in society 

Many graduating students may just want a simpler life where they can work, afford to live, and enter life-giving relationships.

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A Long Night’s Journey into the Dark Side of AI

Like AI, the subconscious mind can process a vast amount of information.

Science Fiction writers have over the past 100-plus years been warning us about the horrors of a dystopian future, but now we are reaching the point where such Sci-Fi stories are now becoming ‘Faction’.

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AI Artificial Intelligence Part 10: Mocking Descartes

The philosopher was trying to establish how a man can know whether or not he exists

Whenever David talks about Monica loving him, he’s always bringing up the things she’ll do for him, not what he can do for her.

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“Please Say Your Phone License Number and Look Into the Camera”

Serious FCC proposal would require licenses to buy phones; AI talk-control is next.

The new law would require telephone service providers to “at a minimum, obtain and retain the name, physical address, government issued identification number, and an alternate telephone number of any new and renewing customer before granting access to its services.” 

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AI: Artificial intelligence Review Part 9

David’s hijacking of the aircraft provides him with a distraction, and he escapes.

David mentions that the first thing he remembered seeing was a bird with outstretched feathers, but it turns out that this initial visual was not a bird at all but a man with feather-like symbols beneath his feet.

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AI Startups are Measuring their Revenues in Likely Fraudulent Ways

These companies are creating higher valuations out of thin air!

Companies charge their customers enough money for them to pay their suppliers, and for those suppliers to pay their suppliers but this isn’t happening in AI.

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Why I Will Not Use Gen AI For Software Development

It’s too risky, and today’s apparent short-term boost may lead to long-term regret.

Our brain’s dopamine system is exploited by the non-deterministic output of GenAI, just as with social media and slot machines.

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AI: Artificial Intelligence Review Part 8

There is no definition for real here because there is no God to define what is “real”.

Spielberg, and presumably Kubrick, are going to use this botched retelling of a fairy tale to give you an ironclad case for atheism.

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AI: Artificial Intelligence Review Part 7

The powers that be have created a robot that can trick people.

These writers sometimes present the opposing points of view through unlikable avatars in an attempt to peer pressure their audience.

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AI Artificial intelligence Review Part 6: Kubrick Doesn’t Know Pinocchio?

Classic fairy tales, in general, are supposed to be at the forefront of the audience’s mind.

The robot shouldn’t have the ability to lie unless programmed to do so under certain circumstances, but even if the robot were capable of lying in the event of a murder, the robot keeps records of its whereabouts.

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AI: Artificial Intelligence Review Part 5

“Nobody knows what ‘real’ really means.”

Spielberg needs to depict David in this obsessive way because, otherwise, he might find himself having to justify why the father doesn’t try to save David or why Martin doesn’t grow attached to him over time.

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Longform Nonfiction in Decline?

We still need to read long books about complicated topics

Perhaps it isn’t coincidental that this kind of longform writing is having trouble at the same time that the online news cycle gets ever more ephemeral.

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AI Artificial Intelligence Review Part 3: Out of the Pool and Into the Woods

What kind of robotic programmers give an android consciousness but then forget to stress the importance of air?

He’s going to pull on your heartstrings to obfuscate from that all-important question: what is the definition of “real,” or to put it more directly, is endowed value real?

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Why Logic and Cognition Set Us Apart from Machines

Is consciousness the exclusive domain of human beings? Proponents of a view known as integrative information theory argue that AI will eventually achieve that same level of consciousness as systems build up and integrate more knowledge in the future. On this archive episode of Mind Matters News, guest host Pat Flynn welcomes Dr. Selmer Bringsjord to discuss some of the flaws in this theory as well as a possible alternative.

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Reflections on the ‘Brave New World’ of Farming

Unfortunately, we’ve come a long way from those Halcyon laidback hazy days of the sitcom TV classic, Green Acres

When it comes to farming, the Dutch government has decided nitrogen is the devil that plagues the Netherlands, but the UK government is fighting a war against its own Beelzebub which takes shape in the form of methane.

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Will AI End Deep Thinking?

AI usage can prevent older people from developing critical thinking skills.

They say Amazon is rolling out AI use in a haphazard way while also tracking their AI use, and they’re worried the company is essentially using them to train their eventual bot replacements.

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AI: Artificial Intelligence Review Part 1

Both the film and the short story question the definition of “real,” not reality

When the scientist proposes creating a robot child who can love, the audience is bound to be asking the obvious question: Is that possible?

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Why AI Can’t Create Like We Can

Human beings are endowed with a unique creative force, so why let AI have all the fun?

AI belongs to this world of necessity and it is bound by the inputs we give it: code, training data, prompts. It has no imagination.

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Beyond Imitation: Testing for True Artificial General Intelligence

On this episode of the Mind Matters News podcast, join host Robert J. Marks as he sits down with Dr. Giorgios Mappouras for a deep dive into the philosophical and technical boundaries that define the gap between human minds and silicon machines. The pair look at why the classic Turing Test is no longer a sufficient measure of machine intelligence in the age of large language models. They explore Giorgio’s proposal for a more rigorous framework that can better evaluate AI’s abilities.

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Ginny Weasley Teaches Us About the Danger of AI Chatbots for Children

She challenges us to do the hard work of educating other parents on the risks of unfettered access to these tools.

The Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation examined the unique risks of chatbots harming children. In many ways, this study confirms the obvious. 

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