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All We Need to Do to Give a Robot a Soul Is… (Error 404)

In reality, programmers don’t leave souls out of robots because they don’t find them useful; they simply and obviously have no idea how to insert them. Read More ›
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Cellulose Doesn’t Just Happen

The most abundant biopolymer on Earth requires a host of machines, genes, proteins, and accessories.  Read More ›
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Film Festival 2023 — “Artificial Intelligence: Will Machines Take Over?”

From May 9-30, the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute is running a film festival on YouTube to highlight some of its top videos. Read More ›
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Long Story Short: The Origin of Replication and the Information Sequence Problem

As an undergraduate at UC San Diego, I attended a seminar taught by Stanley Miller, the famous chemist who put origin-of-life research on the map. Read More ›
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John Lennox: Dante, Glaucus, and Transhumanism

Meanwhile, the will to become gods — transhumanism in a nutshell — still beckons with its ancient glamour. Read More ›
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Jay Richards: Myths, Metaphysics, and Artificial Intelligence

It isn’t a superior grasp of the technology involved that drives some to warn that AI will achieve superiority over human beings. Read More ›
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The Difference Between Humans and Machines

Why do news headlines continually suggest that AI is practically human already, and soon will become fully human? Read More ›
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Marks: Non-Computable You Won’t Achieve Immortality Through an AI Machine

Dreams of achieving immortality by having your consciousness uploaded, merging man and computer in the predicted 2045 “Singularity,” are just that — dreams. Read More ›
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Can Artificial Intelligence Be Creative?

Lady Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, was the first computer programmer. Read More ›
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More on Self-Replicating Machines

We know how to build a simple Ford Model T car. Now let’s build a factory inside this car, so that it can produce Model T cars automatically. Read More ›

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