Bill Dembski

Articles: 92

Artificial Intelligence

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…

Bill Dembski
September 11, 2023

Society

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…

Bill Dembski
September 7, 2023

Economics and Finance

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,…

Bill Dembski
August 30, 2023

Culture, Intelligent Design

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.…

Bill Dembski
August 9, 2023

Culture, Nostalgia

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…

Bill Dembski
August 3, 2023

Culture, Economics and Finance, Society

Replacing Dirty with Clean Water

“Don’t throw out the dirty water until you have the clean water” was my paternal grandfather’s favorite expression. As an immigrant from Poland, he may have picked it up as a proverb from the old country. Clearly, it is a…

Bill Dembski
July 28, 2023

Culture, Society

RFK Jr’s Letter to Liberals — Book Review

A friend of mine wrote this review for a website whose livelihood depends on SEO-generated traffic. He was therefore unable to post it for fear of offending the search engines and thereby getting the site penalized. I have no such…

Bill Dembski
July 18, 2023

Intelligent Design

Intelligence Metrics: Measuring the Degree of Intelligence in Design

A terrific conference just took place in Denton, Texas (June 1-3, 2023): Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, or CELS. Its aim was to inspire cross-disciplinary research between biology and engineering by bringing together biologist, engineers, and some fellow travelers…

Bill Dembski
June 4, 2023

Artificial Intelligence

Breaking ChatGPT: Its Inability to Find Patterns in Numerical Sequences

Here’s a sequence of numbers: 2,4,6,8,10,12,… What’s the next number in the sequence? Obviously 14. That one was simple. But what if we make finding the pattern more difficult? It turns out ChatGPT has serious difficulties with numerical patterns. The…

Bill Dembski
May 27, 2023

Intelligent Design

James Tour Debates David Farina (aka “Professor Dave”)

Yesterday (May 19, 2023), Rice University professor James Tour “debated” (I use that word advisedly) YouTube personality and influencer David Farina (known as “Professor Dave”). The question up for discussion was “Are we clueless about the origin of life?” Tour…

Bill Dembski
May 20, 2023