3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (617+ words) First, getting past the drama: Data centers have a huge energy footprint. But so do cars and planes, if we look at the total environment bill for each. And there is no serious move to abolish either of them on…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (217+ words) We’ve been writing about AI companies buying rare books and destroying them in order to keep feeding more information to the AI chatbots. We learned a new word for it too, destructive scanning. At the The Guardian, last month, Kathryn…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (727+ words) Recognizing that AI is a bubble requires one to apply the right test to the right companies and that requires one to understand the fundamental nature of the bubble in question. Generally speaking, bubbles exist when share prices and valuations…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (848+ words) In 2010, Stephen Hawking opened his co-written book, The Grand Design, Hawking, Stephen, Mlodinow, Leonard – Amazon.com, with a sentence that is self-refuting: “Philosophy is dead.” Hawking argued that the biggest questions about the universe was for physicists to answer or…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (694+ words) Prominent Allen Institute neuroscientist Christof Koch hit the news again recently, suggesting that the brain does not create consciousness. That is very much at odds with the current neuroscience perspective, set out in a journal article by J. L. Saver and J. Rabin…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (615+ words) Our director, computer engineering prof Robert J. Marks, was a guest last Monday on the Humanize Today podcast, hosted by Wesley J. Smith, talking about the benefits and perils of AI. As Smith notes, he has worked on artificial intelligence for more…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (677+ words) Dwarfing climate change, it seems. At the Spectator (US edition), Robert Bryce puts some numbers to the hostility: I’ve been a reporter for four decades. And over the past 16 years, I have been closely tracking the global backlash against Big…...