Category Science and Technology

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

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

Science and Technology

Review of Erik Larson’s THE MYTH OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Last week I reviewed at Amazon the terrific new book by Erik Larson titled The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do (published by Harvard/Belknap). It is the best available critique of why human intelligence…

Bill Dembski
April 17, 2021

Science and Technology

Conversation about the Primacy of Information for Science

Last Thursday, February 27, 2020, my good friend Fred Skiff, chair of the physics department at the University of Iowa, and I discussed themes in my book BEING AS COMMUNION as they relate to the primacy of information for science.…

Bill Dembski
March 3, 2020

Science and Technology

Virtual Railroads and West Virginia Back Roads: AI’s Temptation to Theft Over Honest Toil

AI (artificial intelligence) poses a challenge to human work, threatening to usurp many human jobs in coming years. But a related question that’s too often ignored and needs to be addressed is whether this challenge will come from AI in…

Bill Dembski
July 25, 2018

Culture, Science and Technology

Launch of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence

The Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence was launched in Seattle the evening of July 11, 2018. The launch was streamed live, and here is the YouTube record of it: The new center has two websites: Center for…

Bill Dembski
July 12, 2018

Science and Technology

Artificial Intelligence’s Homunculus Problem: Why AI Is Unlikely Ever to Match Human Intelligence

The other day, almost simultaneously, two colleagues emailed me with the same request, though worded differently — namely, to ask for a good argument to show that AI is no match, and indeed can be no match (however far it…

Bill Dembski
May 30, 2018

Science and Technology

The Future of Meaningful Work

Here’s a reprint of an article I published at TheBestSchools.org in April 2017 on the challenge of artificial intelligence to meaningful human work: —————- In the last days of the Obama administration, on December 20, 2016, the White House published…

Bill Dembski
May 8, 2018