Tag: large language models

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 31, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, Amazon, Anthropic, artificial inteligence, Ben Mann, Big Tech, books, booksellers, chatbots, ChatGPT, Claude, copyright, ISBNdb, Kindle, knowledge, large language models, licensing, LLMs, Peter Biles, Project Panama, technicians, techno-utopianism, technological view, technology, wisdom}

It’s Time to Buy Old Books Before AI Destroys Them

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 31, 2026

Computational Sciences, Technology

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This scheme is the brain child of technicians, people who lead tech companies and tech labs who are wholly committed to a technological view of the world. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
July 31, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Linguistics
Tagged
, 404 Media, AI slop, Anthropic, artificial intelligence, books, bots, creativity, Frank Landymore, Futurism, ISBNdb, language, large language models, lawsuits, literature, pirating, rare books, technology, Ted Gioia, writing}

Gutting Old Books to Feed AI: What Could Go Wrong?

_{Peter Biles
July 31, 2026

Computational Sciences, Linguistics

2}

The question is: Who wins? Maybe we should start buying up all the old books before the bots get to them. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 16, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, censorship, encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, Google, Harvard University, hoax, information, Jimmy Wales, Jordan Boyd, large language models, Larry Sanger, misinformation, Research, search engines, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia}

Sanger Banned by Wikipedia: Diagnosing a Disease

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 16, 2026

Computational Sciences, Scientific Freedom

3}

Sanger became a Christian, which probably got him crossed off a lot of people’s Santa list. But how did he get banned? Read More ›

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Author
George Montañez

Date
July 15, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artifacts, Buddy the Elf, C. S. Lewis, cells, Claude, Claude Delusion, Donald Knuth, evolution, femme bot, intelligence, intelligent causes, intelligent design, large language models, Lego blocks, materialism, Nik Prassas, Richard Dawkins, symbolic artifacts, thinking, tokens, Transformer blocks, Turing test, unintelligent causes}

Why Dawkins’s Argument for AI Is an Argument for God

_{George Montañez
July 15, 2026

Computational Sciences, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

5}

If step-by-step mechanical explanations do not rule out creation by intelligent agents, then I’m not sure we can dismiss the evidence for design in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 10, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artificial inteligence, atheists, biology, chatbots, ChatGPT, Claude, computing, consciousness, intelligence, intelligent design, large language models, living systems, personal identity, philosophy, plagiarists, Richard Dawkins, technology, UnHerd}

On Minds and Machines, Richard Dawkins’s Curious Inconsistency

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 10, 2026

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design

5}

If we encounter far more advanced informational technology in living organisms, isn’t the same intuition at least worth considering? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 30, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, atheists, Bible, born-again Christians, causation, correlation, critics, human intelligence, inference to the best explanation, intelligent design, large language models, mind, model collapse, philosophers, quantum cosmology, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, TechSpective, The Story of Everything, Tony Bradley}

Atheist on The Story of Everything: “I’m Not Sold. But I Can’t Just Wave It Off Either.”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 30, 2026

Computational Sciences, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

3}

"I came away with a much clearer picture of the actual argument....That’s enough of a reason to watch." Read More ›

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Author
George Montañez

Date
February 25, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, animals, arithmetic, artificial inteligence, attention, bigram model, Claude, Claude Shannon, coherence, comprehension, computer code, conversations, Data Processing Inequality, disinformation, embedding, English, fish, food, functional capability, games, generative AI systems, GPT-5, humans, incompleteness theorem, information theory, Kurt Gödel, large language models, mathematical reasoning, model collapse, music, numbers, pixels, poetry, processing, prompts, reasoning, René Magritte, semantics, statistical patterns, syntax, The Treachery of Images, tokens, vectors, video, William Shakespeare, word approximation, words}

Why AI Can’t Replace Us Functionally

_{George Montañez
February 25, 2026

Computational Sciences, Human Exceptionalism

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The map is not the territory. The symbol is not the thing. And the model is not the mind. Read More ›

Livestock, sustainable and herd of cattle on a farm in the countryside for eco friendly environment. Agriculture, animals and cows for meat, dairy or beef trade production industry in a grass field.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 22, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Computational Sciences
Ethics
Tagged
, animal rights, animal suffering, animals, cats, cattle, Dogs, ethical issues, immorality, large language models, LLMs, meal planning, misanthropy, moral philosophers, Peter Singer, Princeton University, propaganda, robots, smart refrigerators, speciesism, steak}

“Moral Philosopher” Decries AI “Speciesism”

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 22, 2026

Bioethics, Computational Sciences, Ethics

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Speciesism is the misanthropic argument that treating an animal like an animal is an evil akin to racism. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 20, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, AI Overview, archaeology, art, Bas van Fraassen, biology, ChatGPT, complex specified information, computation, computer science, Conservation of Information, control, cryptography, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, Ernest Nagel, experiment, fecundity, Forensics, function, gnana yoga, Grok, Hinduism, ID 3.0 Research Program, Imre Lakatos, information, intelligent design, James Tour, James Woodward, Karl Popper, large language models, Larry Laudan, law, Lex Fridman, living things, materialism, mathematics, mechanism, methodological naturalism, Michael Levin, Nancy Cartwright, naturalism, ontology, origin of life, patterns, Paul Feyerabend, philosophy, Pierre Duhem, Plato, Platonic space, pseudoscience, Richard Dawkins, Sandra Mitchell, scientific theory, SETI, steganography, Stephen Meyer, testability, testing, thermostats, Thomas Kuhn, Tufts University, Willard Van Orman Quine}

Michael Levin and the Philosophy of Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
January 20, 2026

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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Levin is not a reflexive Darwinian materialist. Moreover, he touches on many themes that intelligent design theorists touch on. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 8, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Science Education
Technology
Tagged
, [Un]Intentional, 1 Thessalonians, absolutism, Aristotle, artificial intelligence, Bible, Carl Rogers, ChatGPT, Christians, dopamine, Doug Smith, education, Edward Thorndike, Eighteenth Amendment, ELIZA program, Frederick Buechner, geography, history, Jacques Ellul, Jaime Escalante, Joseph Weizenbaum, Judeo-Christian tradition, large language models, Laurent Siklossy, liquor, Marshall McLuhan, math, mathematicians, Neil Postman, Open AI, Phillips Exeter Academy, programmed learning, Prohibition, Rogerian therapists, Sam Altman, software, St. Paul, Substack, technology, Turing test, William Jennings Bryan}

Against Anti-LLM and Anti-AI Absolutism

_{William A. Dembski
January 8, 2026

Computational Sciences, Science Education, Technology

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Doug Smith has been a software developer for three decades. He writes extensively about the impact of technology on culture. Read More ›