Showing posts with label AI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AI. Show all posts
Sunday, September 15, 2024

A caustic review of Yuval Harari's "Nexus"

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I pass on the very cogent opinions of Dominic Green, fellow of the Royal Historical Society, that appeared in the Sept. 13 issue of the Wall...

The Fear of Diverse Intelligences Like AI

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I want to suggest that you read the article by Michael Levin in the Sept. 3 issue of Noema Magazine on how our fear of AI’s potential is em...
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Friday, August 30, 2024

The delusions of transhumanists and life span extenders

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One futurist story line is that we all will be seamlessly integrated with AI and the cloud, and bioengineered to live forever. This simplist...
Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Human distinctiveness and Artificial Intelligence

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I pass on some random thoughts occasioned by the previous post. What is distinctive about humans? -There are millions of humans, there can...
Wednesday, July 10, 2024

From nematodes to humans a common brain network motif intertwines hierarchy and modularity.

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Pathak et al. (abstract below) suggest the evolved pattern they describe may apply to information processing networks in general, in partic...
Friday, July 05, 2024

ChatGPT as a "lab rat" for understanding how our brains process language.

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I've now read twice through a fascinating PNAS piece by Mitchell Waldrop (Open source, with useful references), and urge MindBlog reade...
Friday, June 28, 2024

How AI will transform the physical world.

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I pass on the text of wild-eyed speculations by futurist Ray Kurzweil recently sent to The Economist , who since 1990 has been writing on ho...
Friday, June 21, 2024

The other shoe is about to drop in 2024 - important closure moments in the state of the world.

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I want to pass on a clip (to which I have added some definitions in parentheses) from Venkatest Rao’s most recent Ribbonfarm Studio installm...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Managing the human herd

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 This post is a dyspeptic random walk through thoughts triggered by the front page photograph of the Wall Street journal of June 17, 202...
Monday, June 17, 2024

Empty innovation: What are we even doing?

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I came across an interesting commentary by "Tante" on innovation, invention, and progress (or the lack thereof) in the constant ...
Monday, June 10, 2024

Protecting scientific integrity in an age of generative AI

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I want to pass on the full text of an editorial by Blau et al in PNAS , the link points to the more complete open source online version cont...
Friday, May 24, 2024

Think AI Can Perceive Emotion? Think Again.

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Numerous MindBlog posts have presented the work and writing of Elizabeth Feldman Barrett (enter Barrett in the search box in the right colum...
Monday, May 06, 2024

Are we the cows of the future?

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One of the questions posed by Yuval Harari in his writing on our possible futures is "What are we to do with all these humans who are...
Monday, April 29, 2024

An expanded view of human minds and their reality.

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I want to pass on this recent essay by Venkatesh Rao in its entirety, because it has changed my mind on agreeing with Daniel Dennett that t...