Tag: Discovery Institute

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News
Date
April 16, 2024

Categorized
Technology

Tagged
AI, Bob Metcalfe, Discovery Institute, Ethernet, internet, Jay Richards, Tech}

Bob Metcalfe on Our Connected World

_{Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards interviews Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet} _{News
April 16, 2024

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Technology}

The Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence is pleased to be able to share the videos from the 2023 COSM conference, now available on YouTube. This annual conference explores the status and the future of our era-defining technologies, from artificial intelligence to electric vehicles to new developments in biotech. Today’s video features a conversation with Bob Metcalfe, a pioneer in the field of computer science and the inventor of Ethernet. Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards interviews Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet and recipient of the prestigious Turing Award, about the predicted pathologies of the internet and the reversals associated with the rise of connectivity.

A meteor streaks across the Milky Way during the Perseid meteor shower of 2016.

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Angus J. Menuge
Date
December 15, 2023

Categorized
Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Angus Menuge, Consciousness, Discovery Institute, Dualism, Materialism, Mental states, mind, Minding the Brain, Physicalism, science, substance dualism}

Science Needs a Mind to Work

_{The use of science to discredit the existence of mental subjects is fatally flawed.} _{Angus J. Menuge
December 15, 2023

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Philosophy of Mind}

The idea that science has somehow shown the irrelevance of the mind to explaining behavior is seriously confused. Read More ›

Hurricane Katrina heading towards New Orleans, Louisiana in 2005 - Elements of this image furnished by NASA

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News
Date
September 17, 2023

Categorized
Events

Tagged
COSM, Covid, Discovery Institute, Jay Richards, Niall Ferguson}

Niall Ferguson on the “Politics of Catastrophe”

_{How can we better respond when disaster strikes?} _{News
September 17, 2023

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Events}

In today’s featured video, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards interviews Niall Ferguson, Senior Fellow of Hoover Institution and author of “Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe,” about the history of disasters and how we should think about them. (REGISTER NOW FOR COSM 2023) COSM is an exclusive national summit on the technologies remaking the world as we know it. The mission of the conference is to stimulate debate and deliberation amongst industry leaders, illuminating the synergy between Seattle and the world and providing a scene of civilized conversation and exchange. (REGISTER NOW FOR COSM 2023) 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. Read More ›

Medical Development Laboratory: Caucasian Female Scientist Looking Under Microscope, Analyzes Petri Dish Sample. Specialists Working on Medicine, Biotechnology Research in Advanced Pharma Lab

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News
Date
September 10, 2023

Categorized
Technology

Tagged
Biotech, COSM, Discovery Institute, Freedom, Jay Richards, Medicine}

Killing Diseases and Living Longer

_{Can innovations in biotechnology enhance and lengthen human life?} _{News
September 10, 2023

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Technology}

Can innovations in biotechnology enhance and lengthen human life? This is question typical to the COSM Conference, where today’s leading voices in tech and science converge to discuss the potentials of the present and the vision of the future. Here, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards interviews Matt Scholz, CEO Of OISON Biotechnologies, on new approaches to killing disease and living longer. (REGISTER NOW FOR COSM 2023) COSM is an exclusive national summit on the converging technologies remaking the world as we know it. From artificial intelligence to 5G and WiFi6, from tokenized time to blockchain, from cloud computing to the quantum revolution, and from biotech to the nanotech revolution, COSM brings together some of the greatest minds of our Read More ›

Capture the essence of blockchain technology

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News
Date
August 17, 2023

Categorized
Cryptocurrency

Tagged
Blockchain, COSM, cryptocurrency, Discovery Institute, George Gilder}

Blockchain and the New COSM Architecture

_{Investigating the past, present, and future of the Internet} _{News
August 17, 2023

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Cryptocurrency}

In today’s featured COSM video, telecom expert Dan Berninger facilitates a discussion examining the past, present, and future of the Internet. Together they outline a compelling picture of a next generation internet that is less cumbersome, more efficient, and more secure. Panelists include Gurdeep Pall, Corporate VP of Microsoft, Dr. Bob Metcalfe, internet pioneer, entrepreneur, and Professor of Innovation at the University of Texas at Austin, and Dan Mapes, Founder of Verses Technologies. COSM is an exclusive national summit on the technologies remaking the world as we know it. The mission of the conference is to stimulate debate and deliberation amongst industry leaders, illuminating the synergy between Seattle and the world and providing a scene of civilized conversation and exchange. Read More ›

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News
Date
August 11, 2023

Categorized
Technology

Tagged
COSM, Discovery Institute, internet, Jay Richards, Tech}

What is the Future of the Internet?

_{Jay Richards interviews University of Texas Professor of Innovation Bob Metcalfe regarding the future of the internet} _{News
August 11, 2023

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Technology}

In today’s featured video from a past COSM conference, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards interviews University of Texas Professor of Innovation Bob Metcalfe regarding the future of the internet. Be sure to register now for the COSM 2023 conference, which will be held in November in Bellevue, Washington. COSM is an exclusive national summit on the technologies remaking the world as we know it. The mission of the conference is to stimulate debate and deliberation amongst industry leaders, illuminating the synergy between Seattle and the world and providing a scene of civilized conversation and exchange. 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 Read More ›

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News
Date
July 31, 2023

Categorized
China, Technology

Tagged
Big Tech, Bob Kelly, Carver Mead, China, COSM, Discovery Institute, George Gilder, Jay Richards, Kyoto Prize, Peter Thiel, Technology, United States}

Big Tech and China

_{Evaluating the technological competition between the two superpowers} _{News
July 31, 2023

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China, Technology}

How should the United States deal with China? Jay Richards interviews Dr. Bob Kelly, Managing Partner of Ignition Partners, on a panel he was included in. The panel explored the technological competition between the U.S. and China, what it means for the future, and presented differing schools of thought on how the United States should approach China moving forward. 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 ›

Prison. Prison wall with barbed wire. Law and justice

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Peter Biles
Date
July 22, 2023

Categorized
Economics

Tagged
Acton Institute, Creativity, Determinism, Discovery Institute, free will, George Gilder, Life After Capitalism (book), Materialism, religion, Samuel Gregg}

Martin Luther King Jr. on the Failures of Communism

_{The great advocate for justice saw, as George Gilder does, why materialism fails us} _{Peter Biles
July 22, 2023

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Economics}

The materialistic ideology of a totalitarian state, established at the expense of human freedom and dignity, took hold in multiple countries worldwide following WW II. Read More ›

Launching Space Rocket From Laptop Screen. Generative AI

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News
Date
July 18, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, Creativity, Discovery Institute, Robert J. Marks}

Creative Computers? Marks and Medved on The Rise of Artificial Intelligence

_{What can a computer do now and what will it be able to do in the future?} _{News
July 18, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

What can a computer do now and what will it be able to do in the future? A remarkable amount of confusion surrounds these questions. On a classic episode of “Great Minds” with Michael Medved, Dr. Robert Marks of Discovery Institute’s Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence casts some very helpful light on the limits of AI. Also consider purchasing Dr. Marks’s book Non-Computable You: What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will. We’ve been sharing a number of lectures from past COSM conferences and other videos related to artificial intelligence and technology. 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 Read More ›

Planet earth from space, zoom in to the middle east, Saudi Arabia, world skyline, globe

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News
Date
July 17, 2023

Categorized
Economics

Tagged
AI, Cato Institute, ChatGPT, COSM, Discovery Institute, Gale Pooley, Mainstream Media, Peter Thiel, Technology}

Why So Blue? Look at the Progress We’ve Made

_{Even though there are reasons to celebrate, the mainstream narrative hides them} _{News
July 17, 2023

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Economics}

We’ve cited the groundbreaking book Superabundance several times here at Mind Matters, mainly in connection to its co-author, Gale Pooley, a Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty, and a speaker at the 2021 COSM conference, the yearly technology summit that has attracted speakers like Carver Mead, Peter Thiel, and others. Pooley’s co-author, Marian Tupy, who lectured at COSM 2022 on the book, does work on human progress at the Cato Institute, and published a post showing the many ways humanity has benefitted over the last century. He stands opposed to the mainstream approximations of doom that declare our world’s swift-approaching expiration date, writing, The chance of a person dying in a natural catastrophe — earthquake, Read More ›

Robotic hand study for object manipulation strategy.

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News
Date
July 16, 2023

Categorized
Transhumanism

Tagged
Acton Institute, AI, ChatGPT, Discovery Institute, Jay Richards, mind matters, Philosophy, transhumanism}

Jay Richards Talks Transhumanism and AI

_{The underlying philosophy of transhumanism should be rejected} _{News
July 16, 2023

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Transhumanism}

Dr. Jay Richards, a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute and a friend of the Walter Bradley Center, which publishes Mind Matters, spoke recently at the Acton University conference, discussing both transhumanism and AI. Transhumanists, Richards notes, look at the scope of “cosmic evolution,” see a kind of increasing complexity among the human race, and speculate the next dramatic step: achieving immortality through a mixture of genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence. Richards described the transhumanist ideology as “anti-human,” but cautioned against having a reactionary response to all new technologies that seem to be involved in transhumanism’s vision, noting that some of them, when analyzed specifically, could have benefits (such as AI). The underlying philosophy of transhumanism, however, should be rejected. Read More ›

Business brainstorm, online video meeting, virtual conference with multiracial colleagues. African American man communicate with business partners by video call uses laptop and app, work from home

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News
Date
June 25, 2023

Categorized
Technology

Tagged
COSM, COSM 2022, COVID-19, Discovery Institute, George Gilder, Microsoft, Remote work, Technology}

Digital and Physical Spaces for Work and Play

_{What is the future of work?} _{News
June 25, 2023

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Technology}

A panel featuring top execs at Microsoft, Plus, OTOY, and Rec Room discusses the future of work and play in both physical and digital spaces. Where will they occur and what will they look like? And what are the implications for productivity, privacy, security, and human fulfillment? 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 Institute and author of Life After Capitalism: Read More ›

Builders in work clothes install new roofing tools, roofing tools, electric drill and use them on new wooden roofs with metal sheets

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News
Date
June 22, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
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 ›

View from space of orbiting mother earth; view of China, South East Asia, India

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Peter Biles
Date
June 18, 2023

Categorized
Economics

Tagged
Cato Institute, Climate change, Creativity, Discovery Institute, Human exceptionalism, New York Times, Population growth, superabundance, Wired}

You Can’t Have Infinite Growth on a Finite Planet…or Can You?

_{Busting the myths of population growth and economic scarcity} _{Peter Biles
June 18, 2023

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Economics}

Wired recently came out with an interview with economics data analyst Gaya Herrington proclaiming the doom of humanity if we don’t “shift the paradigm” NOW. Herrington said, Very succinctly, we are at a now-or-never moment. What we do in the next five to 10 years will determine the welfare levels of humanity for the rest of the century. There are so many tipping points approaching, in terms of climate, in terms of biodiversity. So—change our current paradigm, or our welfare must decline. The Planet Can’t Sustain Rapid Growth Much Longer | WIRED Population alarmism is not a new chipmunk at the park. It’s been burrowing its nose into the popular imagination for decades now. But is the hype merited? Are we really Read More ›

Beautiful Single white cloud isolated over black background

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News
Date
June 16, 2023

Categorized
Technology

Tagged
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 ›

Face of female robot, Artificial intelligence concept. Generative AI

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News
Date
June 15, 2023

Categorized
Technology

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, Discovery Institute, economics, Jay Richards, Jobs, Michael Medved, Smart machines, Technology}

Dystopia, Utopia, or Somewhere in Between?

_{Two great minds on the future of "smart machines"} _{News
June 15, 2023

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Technology}

We’ve been featuring several videos from last year’s jam-packed COSM conference, which featured celebrated speakers like Kyoto Prize winner Carver Mead, venture capitalist Peter Thiel, and a number of other highly influential voices in technology and science. Today, however, we’re sharing a video from the archives of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture on the future of “smart machines,” including the dawn of sex robots. The video features a conversation between Discovery Institute’s Jay Richards and Michael Medved, who is a Senior Fellow with Discovery Insitute’s Center for Wealth & Poverty and a renowned radio broadcaster. Their discussion is remarkably pertinent to both the benefits and challenges raised by artificial intelligence and the future of “smart technology.” You can Read More ›

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News
Date
June 6, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Algorithms, Blake Lemoine at COSM 2022, COSM 2022, Discovery Institute, Jay Richards, Robert J. Marks, Sentience and AI, Understanding}

AI’s Lack of Understanding

_{How are we to view AI in an era where it increasingly seems to mimic human intelligence so well?} _{News
June 6, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

We’ve been highlighting a number of interviews from last year’s COSM conference, which attracted many of the most celebrated and respected engineers, scholars, and scientists from around the country. In today’s featured clip, George Montañez, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College, shares his perspective on COSM 2022’s panel on artificial intelligence—areas of agreement and disagreement about the nature and future of artificial intelligence. Montañez, like Robert J. Marks, with whom he shared the panel, thinks AI is impressive and that we’ve made incredible strides in the field of computation, but maintains that these systems lack understanding and sentience. Blake Lemoine, the other panelist in the conversation, thinks AI is capable of a bit more than mere algorithmic Read More ›

electric car parked in front of home modern low energy suburban house 3d rendering

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News
Date
June 2, 2023

Categorized
Technology

Tagged
Batteries (electric cars), Climate change, COSM 2022, Discovery Institute, Lithium}

Electric Cars: Fantasy or Salvation?

_{Many are extolling the benefits of electric cars, especially to reduce emissions} _{News
June 2, 2023

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Technology}

Many are extolling the benefits of electric cars, especially to reduce emissions. Some jurisdictions are even banning the sale of gas-burning cars in the near future. The panel discusses the future of electric vehicles, their benefits as well as the challenges of their widespread adoption (including manufacturing issues and power supply limitations), and some of the practical issues associated with owning and operating an electric vehicle. Read here for further analysis on the panel and the participants’ various views on electric cars. There, Peter Biles writes, Despite their disagreements, the panelists shared various insights on the development of electric vehicles. As their conversation indicates, global economic issues are in the mix when we talk about electric cars. -Peter Biles, Are Read More ›

Gold bitcoin cryptocurrency coins on yellow backgound

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News
Date
May 30, 2023

Categorized
Cryptocurrency

Tagged
COSM, COSM 2022, cryptocurrency, Discovery Institute, George Gilder, Jay Richards, money, YouTube}

John Tamny and the Future of Money

_{Forbes editor John Tamny discusses his views on crypto and traditional forms of money at COSM 2022} _{News
May 30, 2023

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Cryptocurrency}

The 2022 COSM conference saw a number of remarkable speakers, including winner of last year’s prestigious Kyoto Prize, Carver Mead, and Forbes editor John Tamny, who is featured in today’s highlighted video from the conference. Tamny sat down with philosopher Jay Richards to share his thoughts on the conference and his views on the future of money, especially regarding cryptocurrencies versus traditional forms. You can watch the conversation here, and can also access many other great talks and interviews on the Center’s main YouTube page.

Car Factory 3D Concept: Automated Robot Arm Assembly Line Manufacturing High-Tech Green Energy Electric Vehicles. Construction, Building, Welding Industrial Production Conveyor. Elevated Wide Shot

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News
Date
May 15, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, ChatGPT, Consciousness, Discovery Institute, economics, George Gilder, Google, OpenAI, Robots, Wealth and Poverty}

Gilder: More Tech Equals More Productivity, Not Less

_{How will artificial intelligence change the economy? George Gilder responds} _{News
May 15, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

How will artificial intelligence change the economy? Will it wipe out traditionally human occupations? Or will it end up creating more jobs for people in the long run? George Gilder, co-founder of Discovery Institute and author of the new book Gaming AI: Why AI Can’t Think but Can Transform Jobs, thinks that AI has the potential to drastically enhance human life. His optimistic view on AI focuses more on job creation over the long term, while he firmly recognizes that AI will never become so humanlike that it will replace us. He particularly thinks AI will be able to perform the jobs that most people would prefer to avoid. Vish Gain wrote a piece on Gilder’s views in the Silicon Read More ›