10Jul 2023 by Post

Blind Ambition — Revisiting Searle’s Chinese Room

analytic philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, Chinese, Chinese characters, Chinese Room, Clearasil, computers, English, intelligence, Intelligent Design, intentionality, Irish Sweepstakes, John Searle, judo, MacArthur Fellowship, Neuroscience & Mind, observer, Pepsi, psychology, Roger Schank, script, Sophia Loren, The Cognitive Computer, Yale University
For the most part, computer scientists have tended to ignore Searle’s argument and the point of view that it represents. Source
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08May 2023 by Post

Peter Singer Compares Abortion to Turning Off a Computer

abortion, Artificial Intelligence, babies, bioethics, ChatGPT, chimpanzees, computer, Culture & Ethics, dementia, human life, humans, infanticide, infants, Medicine, moral collapse, persons, Peter Singer, philosophy, pregnancy, Princeton University, self-awareness, sentience, sentient beings, unborn baby, unconsciousness, Yahoo News
Singer first claims that should an AI ever become “sentient,” turning it off would be akin to killing a being with the highest moral value. Source
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11Mar 2023 by Post

For AI, Human Hands Are Exceptional…For Now

Artificial Intelligence, Becca Rothfeld, ChatGPT, computers, copyright, critical thinking, DALL-E, digital art, Gary Smith, human exceptionalism, human form, human hands, images, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Jean Paul, job infringement, Kyle Chayka, Midjourney, Neuroscience & Mind, novels, The Point, visual arts, writing
In many artificially contrived images, the hands come up gnarled, disfigured, or otherwise anatomically incorrect. Source
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22Dec 2022 by Post

The Year in Review: Intelligent Design Grows in Influence and Depth

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Our researchers will continue to support and communicate what represents the earliest stages in the next great scientific revolution. Source
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23Sep 2022 by Post

New from Science Uprising — Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, and the Human Difference

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Creativity, not mere copying or following commands, entails thinking “outside the box.” That’s how it can surprise us with genuine novelty. Source
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12Jul 2022 by Post

Hyping Artificial Intelligence with Seductive Optics and the Frankenstein Complex

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Some of the panicky AI-will-take-over-the-world talk grows out of seductive optics — that is, the AI packaging. Source
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26Jun 2022 by Post

Five Reasons Why AI Programs Are Not “Human”

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A Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, mistakenly designated one AI program "sentient." Source
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