Bill Dembski

Only the educated are free — Epictetus

Artificial Intelligence

Conversations with ChatGPT

Off the cuff, I’ll sometimes ask ChatGPT questions that come to mind. There need be no rhyme or reason to the questions I pose. But sometimes ChatGPT provides responses that I find interesting and worth sharing. I’ll keep adding to…

Bill Dembski
December 9, 2023

Science and Technology

Woke Ideology as Scientific Materialism’s Legitimate Offspring

On December 4, 2023, I received the following email from the NAS (National Association of Scholars): Join the National Association of Scholars on Friday, December 8, at 3 pm ET for “Restoring the Sciences: Science Under Attack.” Free inquiry, open debate, and skeptical…

Bill Dembski
December 8, 2023

Intelligent Design

Interview about second edition of The Design Inference with Subboor Ahmad

Subboor Ahmad out of the UK interviewed me today (12/2/23) about the second edition of The Design Inference. The interview is available here: Subboor also interviewed me about intelligent design in 2021 here: I’ve very much enjoyed my conversations with…

Bill Dembski
December 2, 2023

Artificial Intelligence

Using ChatGPT to Refute Atheists

Several months back, someone emailed me the following: I nominate Sam Harris for YouTube’s prize for “Person with the Best One-Liner Joke except for the fact that he was being serious,” for his remark in a 2012 speech: “Tonight, I…

Bill Dembski
November 18, 2023

Society

FAQs for Kennedy24 Campaign: Short Statements of RFK Jr Positions

The Ukraine War SHORT: RFK Jr wants a negotiated peace for Ukraine. He opposes US efforts to use Ukraine in a proxy war to unseat Russia. He believes funds spent on this war should instead support domestic needs, building infrastructure,…

Bill Dembski
October 6, 2023

Artificial Intelligence

COSM.tech: Upcoming AI conference November 1-3, 2023

An important tech conference on artificial intelligence is coming up in Bellevue outside Seattle, November 1-3, 2023. I’ll be speaking at it. I encourage my readers to attend it:

Bill Dembski
September 30, 2023

Interview

Bill Dembski Interview

This interview, originally given back in 2012 and then revised in 2016, appeared on an educational website. Bill’s good friend and colleague James Barham conducted the interview. The interview, updated again in September 2023, appears here at BillDembski.com. Bill’s work…

Bill Dembski
September 20, 2023

Science and Technology

ChatGPT on Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life

The other day I received an email keying off my blog post about ChatGPT and inference to the best explanation (or IBE). The author mused about the future of ChatGPT4’s knowledge base as it continually grows subject to human-assisted corrections.…

Bill Dembski
September 19, 2023

Intelligent Design

UTD Lecture 9.14.2023: “A Case for Intelligent Design”

I spoke yesterday at UTD — the University of Texas at Dallas — which has an attractive campus in Richardson, just north of Dallas. Allen Hainline, on behalf of a local Reasons to Believe chapter, invited me. Thanks go to…

Bill Dembski
September 15, 2023

Artificial Intelligence

Inferring the Best Explanation via Artificial Intelligence

Even with the rise of large language models such as ChatGPT in the last year, I was still convinced that a mode of reasoning known as inference to the best explanation (abbreviated IBE) was not within the competence of artificial…

Bill Dembski
September 12, 2023