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
Freedom, Technology, Education
Bill Dembski
Freedom, Technology, Education
Only the educated are free — Epictetus
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…
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.…
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…
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…
ChatGPT Is Becoming Increasingly Impressive in Real Time
A few months back I published on this blog two pieces (see here and here) where I was able to break ChatGPT4 (hereafter just ChatGPT). Tonight I revisited some of the types of challenges I posed to it in the…
Kennedy for Truth — Why I’m Voting for RFK Jr
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr announced his candidacy for president on April 19, 2023. Why am I voting for RFK Jr and why should you seriously consider voting for him? On this page, I lay out my reasons for voting for…
Is a DIY Mint Possible: Money Creation in a Purely Informational World
This proposal for a radically decentralized informational cryptocurrency was first presented at the COSM Conference () in Bellevue, Washington on October 23, 2019. Back when money was gold coin, an economically sound DIY mint was possible. By a DIY mint,…
Julian Huxley and Magnus Carlsen on the Meaning of Life
The other night, I was watching Lex Fridman interview the world’s strongest chess player, Magnus Carlsen. That same night a friend emailed me a statement by Julian Huxley on Darwinian evolution, in which Huxley treated Darwinism as a sealed deal.…
Loving 70s Music Without Guilt
A few years ago I provided on this blog a complete listing of all the songs and episodes of Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 Countdown. I had listened to this program during high school, and to this day it elicits…