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George Montañez

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Searching Large Spaces: The Mathematical Details

Think of replicational resources as arrows in your quiver and specificational resources as targets so that hitting any of them counts as a success. Read More ›
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Evolutionary Computing: An Audit of Smuggled Information

The most significant stop for me in Denmark was a lecture that Jakob Wolf arranged for me to give at the Niels Bohr Institute. Read More ›
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Fossil Explosions Persist, and Other Confirmations of Intelligent Design

From 2016 until his tragic death in 2025, Bechly made many important contributions to ID literature on the topic of fossil explosions in the history of life. Read More ›
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New Peer-Reviewed Paper Provides a How-To Manual for Using ID to Guide Research

The paper explains what the theory of intelligent design is and how it can be used to generate testable scientific predictions, or “expectations.” Read More ›
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The Story, and the Meaning, of Everything

The “nerve of the thing” — telling this story based on scientific evidence — would have barely raised an eyebrow among the founders of science. Read More ›
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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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Experts Debate: Was a Chatbot Sentient?

Lemoine was famously fired from Google earlier this year after he leaked a transcript of his conversation with Google’s advanced LaMDA chatbot program. Read More ›
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The Information Enigma: Going Deeper

To provide a deeper understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of information-based arguments, I will delve into the underlying mathematics. Read More ›
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New Bradley Center Launches; Will Consider Promise and Threat of Artificial Intelligence

The theme of the evening was framed by a question: “Will the Machines Take Over? Human Uniqueness in the Age of Smart Machines.” Read More ›
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Artificial Intelligence Is a Pandora’s Box. What’s in There? Find Out Tomorrow!

Get a glimpse at 7:30 pm as we live-stream Discovery Institute's launch of the new Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. Read More ›

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