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Photo: Chinese Han characters, by Michael Coghlan, via Flickr (cropped).

Passing the Turing Test Is No Guarantee of True AI

A person who speaks no Chinese whatsoever inhabits a room full of file cabinets full of questions and answers — all written in Chinese. Read More ›
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Ray Kurzweil Predicts: The “Singularity” by 2045

Under Kurzweil’s transhumanist vision of the future, AI promises us superhuman capabilities complete with heaven on earth and eternal life. Read More ›
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Chatting with ChatGPT about Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life

This study raises the interesting question of the interplay between trained biases in ChatGPT and the ability to coax this AI to transcend those biases. Read More ›
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Inferring the Best Explanation via Artificial Intelligence

The analogy with chess is apt — computers play chess but in ways different from us by being able to brute force their way through millions more positions. Read More ›
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Uncovering the Hidden Mathematical Structure of the Universe

Genuine human rationality would not exist if a naturalistic account of the human mind were correct. Read More ›
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ChatGPT Is Becoming Increasingly Impressive

Yet I continue to maintain that human intelligence is qualitatively different from artificial intelligence. Read More ›
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Oliver Anthony and Human Exceptionalism

If you’ve been online at all for the last few weeks, chances are you’ve come across headlines about the folk/country singer Oliver Anthony. Read More ›
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Can Everything Be Reduced to Data?

"Dataism is at odds with human flourishing. It’s difficult to find a Renaissance moment in this ruinous reductionism." Read More ›
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Human Exceptionalism — Why Artificial Intelligence Will Never Tell a Story

The personal, communicative nature of storytelling rules out AI as a legitimate author. It can’t intend meaning. Read More ›
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Photo: Trinity detonation, by United States Department of Energy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

For Science and Free Speech, Lessons from Oppenheimer

Like all great art, the movie evokes reactions in the viewer beyond what the filmmaker might have intended. Read More ›

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