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Putting AI to the “Tolkien Test”: Could It Pass?

Could ChatGPT ever hope to get close to the creative depth found in Tolkien’s Middle-earth? Read More ›
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Image credit: Jo Koster, 1917, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

An Artist Talks with Dembski about Intelligent Design

Karen Wong began thinking about the “specified qualities that show up in art” and how “those qualities also show up everywhere else in the universe.” Read More ›
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Introduction to the Scientific Theory of Intelligent Design

Darwin’s implausible explanation for evolution has become more and more implausible with every new biological and biochemical discovery. Read More ›
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Can Evolution and Intelligent Design Work Together in Harmony?

Or is that wishful thinking? Casey Luskin concludes his conversation with philosopher Stephen Dilley about a recent proposal. Read More ›
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Image credit: William Dembski.

Artificial General Intelligence: The Oracle Problem

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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Photo: Natural backdrop for this year's Summer Seminar, by Emily Sandico.

The Rocks Cry Out — Looking Back on My Year

We enjoyed our staff Christmas lunch yesterday at Ivar’s in downtown Seattle and a number of colleagues spoke movingly. Read More ›
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Dembski and Tour: Why Chance Doesn’t Have a Chance

Proponents of an evolutionary explanation for life and the universe credit natural processes with a seemingly unlimited amount of time and boundless creativity. Read More ›
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Photo: Robert J. Marks and Walter Myers at COSM conference, by Nathan Jacobson.

Must AI Inevitably Degenerate into Nonsense, through “Model Collapse”?

AI works because humans are real creative beings, and AIs are built using gigantic amounts of diverse and creative datasets made by humans. Read More ›
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Right Brain Vs. Left Brain? It’s Murky

Vertebrates generally have brains divided into two lobes, an arrangement that may go back half a billion years. Read More ›
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Physics, Information Loss, and Intelligent Design

Imagine a system where heat flows from a hot region to a cold region under the constraint of the traditional second law of thermodynamics. Read More ›

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