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AI Consciousness Hype “Conflates Simulation with Instantiation”

Robert Lawrence Kuhn interviewed a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist, Àlex Gómez-Marín, on whether AI can become conscious. Read More ›
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Jay Richards: AI, Robots, and Moravec’s Paradox

Dr. Richards punctures the illusions of AI hype. One is that AI is something really new. Read More ›
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Control Systems in Vertebrate Limbs Further Demonstrate that They Were Designed

Even if one limb suddenly transformed into another, the new limb would prove useless until its control system was entirely reengineered. Read More ›
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Watch: “The Most Technologically Advanced Place on Planet Earth”

Join renowned biochemist Michael Behe as he explores the mystery of how cells repair themselves. Read More ›
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Why AI Won’t Destroy the World, or Save It

Will robots or other computers ever become so fast and powerful that they become conscious, creative, and free? 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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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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Pre-Order Immortality Now! (It’s Only 8 Years Away, Apparently)

Would living forever in a utopian technological society really be as great as the transhumanists insist?  Read More ›
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Robot Evolution? How the Trick Is Done

Some evolutionists still don’t get it. You can’t design something for a purpose and call it Darwinism. Read More ›
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Hyping Artificial Intelligence with Seductive Optics and the Frankenstein Complex

Some of the panicky AI-will-take-over-the-world talk grows out of seductive optics — that is, the AI packaging. Read More ›

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