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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 9, 2024

Categories
Computational Sciences
Science Reporting
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, deception, deep fakes, deep learning, democracy, historical figures, hype, images, Neural Networks, post-trust, public opinion, robot, robotics, security, skepticism, trade-offs, trust, video}

Deep Fakes and Propaganda for Artificial General Intelligence

_{William A. Dembski
February 9, 2024

Computational Sciences, Science Reporting

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The video shows a supposed table tennis match between a robot and a top human player. Yet the video is not of an actual match. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 7, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science Education
Technology
Tagged
, algorithms, An Idol for Destruction (series), Aristotle, artificial general intelligence, chess, children, computers, Dante Alighieri, education, farming, happiness, humans, humility, idols, Inferno, iPhones, machines, peace, Silicon Valley, social media, The Politics of Revelation and Reason}

Artificial General Intelligence: Destroying the Idol

_{William A. Dembski
February 7, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science Education, Technology

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Even those doing the most to build and publicize the AGI idol do not wish it on their children. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 6, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alan Turing, Albert Einstein, An Idol for Destruction (series), Aristotle, artificial general intelligence, Calliope, ChatGPT, computer science, creativity, Henri Poincaré, humanism, humans, information, large language models, music, organisms, quantum indeterminacy, radio, Unmoved Mover, worldview}

Artificial General Intelligence: The Oracle Problem

_{William A. Dembski
February 6, 2024

Bioethics, Intelligent Design

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Our most advanced artificial intelligence systems, which I’m writing about in this series, require input of external information to keep them from collapsing. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 2, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, An Idol for Destruction (series), Are We Spiritual Machines?, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, brain, ChatGPT, Chinese, Chinese Room argument, computers, consciousness, COSM, George Gilder, Gottfried Leibniz, Jay Richards, John Searle, jumbo jet, machines, Marvin Minsky, Michael Denton, Moore’s law, organisms, Ray Kurzweil, Stanford University, Telecosm, The Age of Spiritual Machines, Thomas Ray, Turing Machine, Venice}

Artificial General Intelligence: Machines vs. Organisms

_{William A. Dembski
February 2, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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It may seem that I’m picking too much on Ray Kurzweil. But he and I have been crossing paths for a long time. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 1, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alan Turing, An Idol for Destruction (series), artificial general intelligence, Bertrand Russell, California, Christianity, computational power, David Hilbert, elementary particles, eternity, Gregory of Nyssa, humans, Marvin Minsky, Nick Bostrom, oscillating universe, Ray Kurzweil, The Design Inference, theology}

Artificial General Intelligence: Digital vs. Traditional Immortality

_{William A. Dembski
February 1, 2024

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Gregory of Nyssa taught that eternity for humanity is an unending progression in the knowledge of God. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 31, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, An Idol for Destruction (series), artificial intelligence, Bertrand Russell, chess, Elon Musk, environments, Los Angeles, machines, Robert J. Marks II, self-driving cars, software, Tesla, West Virginia}

Artificial General Intelligence: AI’s Temptation to Theft Over Honest Toil

_{William A. Dembski
January 31, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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The worry is — and it’s a legitimate worry — that our environments will increasingly be altered to accommodate AI. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 30, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, aboutness, An Idol for Destruction (series), artificial general intelligence, autism, B. F. Skinner, ChatGPT, chess, DeepMind, Elon Musk, Erik Larson, G.K. Chesterton, Go (game), human bodies, idolatry, large language models, Luddites, machines, Noam Chomsky, rabbits, René Descartes, self-driving cars, Tesla, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, Willard Quine, Word and Object, words}

Artificial General Intelligence: The Poverty of the Stimulus

_{William A. Dembski
January 30, 2024

Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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It doesn’t even matter if the child is blind, deaf, or both. Barring developmental disorders (such as some forms of autism), the child can learn language. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 28, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, 2001: A Space Odyssey, An Idol for Destruction (series), Arthur C. Clarke, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, Back to the Future, Blaise Pascal, Book of Job, Cambridge University, Darwinian evolution, Dune, Erika DeBenedictis, Ezekiel, Frank Herbert, Garden of Eden, gravity, H.G. Wells, Isaac Barrow, Isaac Newton, Isaiah, large language models, Lucifer, Old Testament, Reformation, Satan, science fiction, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Time Machine, wormholes, Yuval Harari}

Artificial General Intelligence: The Creation Exceeding the Creator

_{William A. Dembski
January 28, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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Is artificial intelligence at a tipping point, with AGI ready to appear in real time? Or is AGI more like many other themes of science fiction? Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 25, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, 2001: A Space Odyssey, An Idol for Destruction (series), artificial general intelligence, ChatGPT, cyborgs, Elon Musk, Genesis, Greek, HAL 9000, Heaven, Hebrew, humans, idols, Isaiah, Leslie Zeigler, Neuralink, New Testament, Old Testament, OpenAI, Ray Kurzweil, Sam Altman, Skynet, Ten Commandments, The Matrix, The Singularity is Near, The Singularity is Nearer, Tower of Babel, zealotry}

Artificial General Intelligence: An Idol for Destruction

_{William A. Dembski
January 25, 2024

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Idols are always frauds because they substitute a lesser for a greater, demanding reverence for the lesser at the expense of the greater. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
December 27, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, atheism, Being as Communion, belief, brain, ChatGPT4, consciousness, decision-making, determinism, free choice, free will, illusion, irony, judgment, mind, neuroscience, persuasion, reality, Sam Harris, The Design Inference, Winston Ewert, YouTube videos}

No. 6 Story of 2023: On Free Will, ChatGPT4 Blows Away Atheist Sam Harris

_{William A. Dembski
December 27, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Yes, the irony here is palpable, and I’ve long been critical of Harris’s view of free will as an illusion. Read More ›