Concern Rises Over AI’s Hacking Incidents
Can AI really go off and "do its own thing"?How to respond: Vigilance and caution? Sure. Terror and passively giving in? Human exceptionalism says “no” to that.
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Is writing really not important any more?
A New York Times op-ed claims writing isn't as essential as we might assumeFor those who want to grow and develop as thinkers and communicators, writing is still a time-tested option.
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Do People Who Believe AI is Sentient Not Know They Are Panpsychists?
A medic said to me that he would use the word ‘please’, as the AI might be sentientAnyone who thinks AI can be sentient have to believe in panpsychism, as the chips for computers are made of silicon, derived from sand and some other minerals.
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Artificial General Intelligence? No, We’re Not There Yet
A few days ago, I retested GPT5.6 Luna with three prompts it had struggled with in the pastThe intelligence, understanding, and logical reasoning of ChatGPT and other LLMs continue to be limited by their inability to connect words to the real world.
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Are Fictionbots Triumphing Over Writers?
At The Spectator, Geoff Bagwell tells us that AI is destined to destroy the creative writing industry as bots take writers’ jobsReading for entertainment alone will become increasingly rare. I expect we will return to a culture where people who read are mainly looking for new ideas.
Read More ›New Study Finds Many Pastors Use AI in Various Ways
It's not just schools. AI is in the churches, tooThe way AI is creeping into our cultural and religious institutions is worth keeping an eye on, especially since so many of us look to these places to understand what it means to be human in the first place.
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Mind Over Models: An Economist’s Take on AI Speculation
In this bingecast installment of the Mind Matters News podcast, host Robert J. Marks welcomes economics professor and author Gary Smith to discuss the hype around artificial intelligence and its impact on the market. Smith is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Ponoma College and a frequent contributor to Mind Matters News. Smith argues that generative AI, embodied in services like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, exhibits many characteristics of past market bubbles, including excessive hype, lack of profitability, and unrealistic expectations. Smith holds that generative AI models have limited practical economic value. They may be good at finding statistical patterns but struggle to distinguish meaningful, useful correlations from coincidental ones. Smith describes the fundamental challenge of teaching machines true understanding that goes beyond mere pattern recognition. A number of examples and stories are shared throughout.
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Meta Retreats from the Metaverse
While Meta is scaling back on the metaverse, it is reportedly switching focus to artificial intelligence.The ambitious project never paid its expected dividends. Consumers simply weren’t as interested in these VR headsets as Zuckerberg thought they would be.
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Of Logic and Lawyers: AI’s Fragile Competence
The case against near‑term legal automation—and the AI blind spots that still matter.First, we must remind ourselves that “data is not the plural of anecdote.”
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Are Young People Getting Tired of AI?
A new article suggests teens are not universally excited about the blossoming technologyJulie Jargon wrote an interesting piece for The Wall Street Journal about teen attitudes towards AI and found that their view of it isn’t so optimistic as many might assume.
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In 2026, Real Artistry Will Help Brands and Businesses
2025 was AI's big year. Will 2026 follow suit, or will the scales start to balance?Enter Porsche, the car company, and it’s advertisement, contrasting with Coca-Cola, shows the time-tested beauties of hand-drawn and CGI animation.
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AI Data Centers Are Using Water, and Lots of It
Will studies like this spark a new kind of pushback in the coming year?The study has arrived on the heels of Time Magazine’s decision to elect a number of AI company CEOs as its annual “Person of the Year.”
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Why I Respectfully Disagree With Bill Dembski on AI in Education
Are GenAI chatbots really the bridge over the gulf of our education crisis?Dr. Dembski wants us to use technology with wisdom. I share his broader goal, but not the use of generative AI chatbots to get there.
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The Chatbots’ Most Dangerous Correlations
To give these machines blind trust really is the case of the blind leading the blind, and that is not likely to end wellWhen you prompt an LLM, the entire conversation acts as a prompt driving the reply. Thus your prompt can push the LLM in unforeseen, unintended directions.
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AI Developers Named Time’s “Person of the Year”
The decision drew a lot of criticism.On the cover of the magazine issue, tech giants including Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg are pictured sitting on a construction beam.
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New ChatGPT Ads Assume People Can’t Think for Themselves
ChatGPT wants to do it all for you.This sort of thinking assumes that modern people are no longer intelligent enough to do the things that former generations easily managed.
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How to Ruin a Generation: Give Everyone Smartphones
What is all of this digital content doing to the souls of kids? To everyone?For those familiar with the novel Brave New World, this distracted, dopamine-addled brand of a society was all but predicted almost a century ago.
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AI Psychosis and the Need for Human Exceptionalism
I pronounce you husband and chatbot?AI is a tool with certain potentials and limits across various fields, but basic anthropological confusion can do a lot of damage. What happens when AI programs cease to be seen as mere tools, meant to used in limited ways and used wisely, and are considered “persons?” It sounds silly to pose the question, but that’s where we are. Futurism writer Frank Landymore reports on an Ohio legislative measure to ban human-AI marital unions. The bill must be intended to be preventative, since AI bots and programs aren’t recognized as legal persons (yet), but it speaks to a cultural trend that, if undealt with, could blow out of proportion. Landymore writes, Popular chatbots are capable of being eerily lifelike, effortlessly Read More ›
Turing Test 2.0: A Better Way to Test Machine Intelligence?
On this episode of Mind Matters News, host Robert J. Marks speaks with Dr. Georgios Mappouras about his proposal for a more rigorous test for measuring artificial intelligence. Mappouras argues that the original Turing Test is not enough to determine true intelligence in AI systems, as it focuses too much on simulating human-like conversation rather than demonstrating genuine understanding and problem-solving Read More ›
GPT 5.0 Doesn’t Understand But Is Eager to Please
Over a number of tries, it couldn’t get the labels on an illustration right because it does not understand what the words mean and how they relate to the imageThe test also shows GPT 5.0’s inclination to praise a user’s acuity, whether the user’s comment is correct or incorrect, intelligent of dumb.
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