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Joe McDonald: How AI Can Complement Human Capabilities
Despite its limitations, AI excels in areas where humans struggle, such as analyzing large datasets, identifying patterns, and automating repetitive tasks
Did China’s DeepSeek Violate OpenAI’s Legal Rights?
“Distillation” technology may have allowed DeepSeek to piggy-back on ChatGPT to capture market share
Will We Starve Dementia Patients in Slow Motion?
There is a proposal on the table to barely feed — i.e., malnourish — dementia patients who have previously signed a directive
AI Generated Content May Now Be Copyrighted
AI-generated work can be copyrighted if it involves “meaningful human authorship.”
Anthony Fauci and Trust in Public Health: An Inside View
Ex-CDC director Robert Redfield explores the issue of trust in public health — and its loss — with Wesley J. Smith
Monday Micro Softy 12: Can You Connect the Dots?
You may use no more than four perfectly straight lines and the lines must be connected.
Why We Must Not Use AI In Ministry: Response to Jay Owen
An open letter to Jay Owen, a popular proponent of AI in ministry
Proof of Darwinism Lies in a Book That Was Never Written…
Terry Scambray looks at Robert Shedinger’s Darwin’s Bluff, which tells the tale of the proof that Darwin was always “going to” provide
The Human Body From an Engineer’s Perspective
My late father was a naval engineer. There are fundamental ways an engineer must think about any designed system. Let’s apply them to the body
New Zealand Mountain Named a Person with Rights, Responsibilities
And what responsibilities can the mountain possibly assume? Can it be sued for an avalanche?
Terminator Salvation Part 3: A Return to Roots
This movie remembers what the second Terminator film forgot: the true nature of the machines
Douthat: Our Minds Are Tied to Reality
The New York Times columnist thinks everyone should be more religious
Sports Gambling: The New Addiction Storming America
Making money off your favorite team just got wildly popular. But is it healthy?
Beyond the Physical: Exploring the Nature of the Mind
A recent podcast panel challenged the prevailing materialist assumptions about the mind and explored better accounts of the richness of human consciousness
Some Lessons From DeepSeek, Compared With Other Chatbots
I tested OpenAI o1, Copilot, and Gemini Flash, along with DeepSeek, on a question about Tic-Tac-Toe
Gender-Dysphoric Children Protected from “Gender-Affirming Care”
The American medical establishment is increasingly the fringe advocate on this issue
Former CDC Director Discusses the Covid Years: What Worked, Didn’t
Robert Redfield’s surprising interview with Wesley Smith shows that there was significant opposition within the agency to the vaccine mandates
DeepSeek’s AI Model Shakes the Market
A wake-up call for U.S. tech
The Subtle Ways That Science Writing Erases Human Exceptionalism
Stone tool use among animals versus the Stone Age provides a useful illustration of the tendency
COVID: It’s Becoming Safe To Openly Admit the Facts
The days of “fact-checking,” aimed at getting everyone vaxxed, appear to be over. Just look at the significant recent admissions…
Briefs
The FBI has its own UFO tracking bureau…
Now welcoming you to the Big Universe, Goldilocks Planet section…
Million-dollar prize offered to decode elusive ancient script
Scientific American: Trading scientific rigor for Woke agitprop?
Hand axes from as long at 1.5 million years ago found in Iraq
Turns out many news media are on the U.S. government payroll
Google will now develop AI for weapons and surveillance
U.S.: bias reporting systems spread from campus to neighborhoods
Babies learn much language in the first six months post-birth
Robert J. Marks to speak at the University of North Texas Feb 10
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