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Artificial General Intelligence: AI’s Temptation to Theft Over Honest Toil

The worry is — and it’s a legitimate worry — that our environments will increasingly be altered to accommodate AI. Read More ›
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Peer Review May Be Beyond Reform

Harvard is going to have quite a job convincing the world that it is still serious about reality-based thinking, never mind peer review. Read More ›
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Dembski Won the Argument with His Critics; New Edition of The Design Inference Shows How

The expanded edition represents the culmination of decades of thought. Esteemed Princeton University mathematician Sergiu Klainerman has welcomed the book. 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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A Paradigm Crisis for Physicalism

This crisis has converged with two other currents of change with the surprising result that alternatives to physicalism are now taken seriously. Read More ›
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Latest from Discovery Institute Press, Minding the Brain Is an Amazon #1 New Release

Congratulations to the editors, Angus Menuge, Brian Krouse, and Robert J. Marks! Read More ›
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New Book: Mind Is More than the Brain

Says Gregory Chaitin, algorithmic information theory pioneer: "The mind-body problem lives! A stimulating collection of contemporary perspectives." Read More ›
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Human Exceptionalism — Why Artificial Intelligence Will Never Tell a Story

The personal, communicative nature of storytelling rules out AI as a legitimate author. It can’t intend meaning. Read More ›
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Gregory Chaitin on Gödel, Computer Science, and the Blessing of Children

Robert J. Marks talks with the trailblazing mathematician about Kurt Gödel’s ontological proof for the existence of God, and more. 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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