dark-robot Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date July 13, 2025 CategoriesComputational SciencesEvolutionNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , anti-Semitism, artificial intelligence, Gary Smith, Grok, hallucination, Henry Kissinger, Jeffrey Epstein, Jews, large language models, Mind Matters, Skynet, X (platform) Grok as Hitler 2.0 Reveals Hard Limits to AI Denyse O’Leary July 13, 2025 Computational Sciences, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind 5 We mustn’t attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, incompetence, corruption, or blind ambition. Read More ›
Sigmund_Freud,_by_Max_Halberstadt_(cropped) 2 Type post Date February 25, 2025 CategoriesMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , American Council for Science and Health, artificial intelligence, Belgium, bias, chatbot, climate change, Gary Smith, hallucination, medicine, neuroscience, privacy, psychiatry, safety, Stanford University, suicide Replace Psychiatrists with AI? Science & Culture February 25, 2025 Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 3 "A Belgian man, after weeks of dialogues with his chatbot 'confidante,' committed suicide after it encouraged him to sacrifice himself for climate change." Read More ›
March_for_Science_604 Type post Date July 17, 2024 CategoriesBioethicsEvolutionScientific Trustworthiness Tagged , “consensus science”, chatbots, Gary Smith, junk science, large language models, Massimo Pigliucci, p-hacking, pseudoscience, science, settled science Three Genuine Tells of Junk Science Science & Culture July 17, 2024 Bioethics, Evolution, Scientific Trustworthiness 4 This comes to us hard on the heels of philosopher Massimo Pigliucci’s effort to identify “pseudoscience.” Read More ›
pero-kalimero-9BJRGlqoIUk-unsplash Type post Date February 24, 2024 CategoriesBioethicsPhysical Sciences Tagged , data, economics, Elsevier, Gary Smith, Netherlands, New Zealand, Retraction Watch, science journals, United Kingdom, United States, University of Copenhagen, Zoom Data Can Appear in Science Journals — Out of Thin Air Science & Culture February 24, 2024 Bioethics, Physical Sciences 5 While many researchers decried the results, University of Copenhagen econometrician Søren Johansen said something worth pondering. Read More ›
handshake Type post Author Peter Biles Date March 11, 2023 CategoriesHuman ExceptionalismIntelligent DesignNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, computers, copyright, critical thinking, Gary Smith, images, intelligence, novels, writing For AI, Human Hands Are Exceptional…For Now Peter Biles March 11, 2023 Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind 5 In many artificially contrived images, the hands come up gnarled, disfigured, or otherwise anatomically incorrect. Read More ›
laughter 2 Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date June 17, 2019 CategoriesNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __k-review, algorithms, ambiguity, artificial intelligence, bison, computers, elephant, Gary Smith, humans, humor, laughter, npr, Robert J. Marks II, Twitter, Walter Bradley Center Robert J. Marks: Humor, Ambiguity, and AI David Klinghoffer June 17, 2019 Neuroscience & Mind 3 Dr. Marks thinks it’s possible that AI may improve in its ability to resolve ambiguous language. Right now it’s not looking so good. Read More ›