Tag: Erik Larson

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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
September 14, 2023

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Bayesian reasoning, ChatGPT, ChatGPT4, chess, Erik Larson, Google Bard, gun, inference to the best explanation, musicians, Noam Chomsky, piano, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence}

Inferring the Best Explanation via Artificial Intelligence

_{William A. Dembski
September 14, 2023

Neuroscience & Mind

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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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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 13, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, ChatGPT4, Chronicle of Higher Education, classical music, Erik Larson, Harvard University Press, hospital, human intelligence, humor, inference to the best explanation, intelligence, jokes, large language models, Ludwig van Beethoven, mouse, operating room, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, whale, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}

ChatGPT Is Becoming Increasingly Impressive

_{William A. Dembski
September 13, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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Yet I continue to maintain that human intelligence is qualitatively different from artificial intelligence. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 30, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, abduction, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, CIA, computers, digits, Erik Larson, Fibonacci sequence, Harvard University Press, numbers, patterns, pi, spaces, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, Wolfgang Pauli}

Breaking ChatGPT: Its Inability to Find Patterns in Numerical Sequences

_{William A. Dembski
May 30, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Pattern completion tasks like this have been part of aptitude testing for a long time. The NSA and CIA, for instance, have used them to help in hiring analysts. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 29, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon, Books & Culture, Brian Miller, Cambridge University Press, Darwinists, Erik Larson, Eugenie Scott, evolution, Evolution News, First Things, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, Kenneth Miller, Mark Steiner, Richard John Neuhaus, Rosenhouse’s Whoppers (series), The Myth of Artificial Intelligence}

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: More Guidance on Reading Jason Rosenhouse

_{William A. Dembski
August 29, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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So much in Rosenhouse’s book is careless, giving no indication that he has carefully studied and adequately comprehended my work or that of my colleagues. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 16, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Science Reporting
Tagged
, algebra, ambiguity, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, computer science, computers, COSM 2021, Discovery Institute, Erik Larson, grocery store, Harvard University Press, humans, Jeopardy, superintelligence, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence}

Harvard U Press Computer Science Author Gives AI a Reality Check

_{Casey Luskin
November 16, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Science Reporting

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The key missing ingredient in machine intelligence is the ability to appreciate context, do analysis, and make appropriate inferences. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 25, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Brookings Institution, ELIZA program, Erik Larson, Joseph Weizenbaum, philosophers, programmers, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence}

Terrific Video Interview with Erik Larson

_{William A. Dembski
April 25, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

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It was done before his book was released and gives a succinct summary of the book. It’s short. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 24, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abduction, babies, Brookings Institution, computers, Erik Larson, Go (game), Harvard University, humans, inference to the best explanation, Noam Chomsky, philosophers, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, Willard Quine, Word and Object}

Why Computers Will Likely Never Perform Abductive Inferences

_{William A. Dembski
April 24, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

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If you are going to get a computer to achieve anything like understanding in some subject area, it needs a lot of knowledge. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 23, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Are We Spiritual Machines?, baseball, conferences, Erik Larson, First Things, George Gilder, Jay Richards, Ray Kurzweil, Telecosm, The Age of Spiritual Machines, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence}

“Are We Spiritual Machines?”

_{William A. Dembski
April 23, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

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The event at which I moderated the discussion about Ray Kurzweil’s book was the 1998 George Gilder Telecosm conference. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 22, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, computer science, deep learning, elephant, Erik Larson, human intelligence, Neural Networks, philosophers, programmers, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, understanding, Wikipedia}

The Myth of “Deep Learning”

_{William A. Dembski
April 22, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

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This is pathetic, and this is what is supposed to lay waste and supersede human intelligence? Read More ›