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Who Expected Richard Dawkins To Blow Up Darwinism?

To the astonishment and dismay of a computer pro who once admired him, Dawkins, who has a materialist view of human consciousness, has convinced himself that a chatbot is conscious

If this is what happens when people think that human consciousness has a purely material evolutionary origin, it is a strong argument for the opposite view.

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Can AI Legally Be Trained Using All the Books in the World?

Judge rules in support of chatbot Claude — except when training materials are pirated

The pirated digital book copies sank Anthropic on a fundamental point. It was not “fair use.”

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