23 Oct Science & Health What will AI really mean for science? 23/10/2024 By Ehsan Nabavi 0 comments Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken centre stage in basic science. The five winners of the 2024 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Phy... Continue reading
11 Jul Science & Health Will AI help or hinder trust in science? 13/07/2024 By Jon Whittle 0 comments In the past year, generative artificial intelligence tools — such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and OpenAI’s video generation tool ... Continue reading
30 Sep Science & Health Does AI have a right to free speech? 30/09/2023 By Simon McCarthy-Jones 0 comments The world has witnessed breathtaking advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI), with ChatGPT being one of the best known exam... Continue reading
13 Sep Letters to the Editor The limits of liberty 05/02/2024 By Rationale Magazine 0 comments Editor’s note: If you would like to submit a letter for possible publication, please email it to editor@rationalist.com.au. See our ... Continue reading
09 Aug Philosophy & Psychology What 17th-century philosophy can tell us about artificial intelligence 11/07/2024 By Jack Dikian 0 comments René Descartes' interests extended to diverse subjects, and one of the most striking subjects he studied was machine thinking. That he ... Continue reading
05 Jun Science & Health AI and the problems of personification 05/06/2023 By David James 0 comments In literary criticism, a commonly used term is ‘personification’, which describes when a writer invests natural phenomena with human qu... Continue reading
25 May Science & Health The impact and implications of large language models 25/05/2023 By James Fodor 0 comments Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Google Bard have attracted a great deal of publicity in recent months due to their imp... Continue reading
22 May Science & Health We need to stop treating AI like humans 23/05/2023 By Neil Saunders 3 comments The artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer Geoffrey Hinton recently resigned from Google, warning of the dangers of the technology... Continue reading
24 Mar Philosophy & Psychology Gods in the machine: Artificial intelligence and new religions 24/03/2023 By Neil McArthur 0 comments We are about to witness the birth of a new kind of religion. In the next few years, or perhaps even months, we will see the emergence o... Continue reading
03 Mar Science & Health The future role of human judgement 06/03/2023 By Jack Dikian 0 comments There is an old Chinese curse, “May you live in an interesting age.” It continues: “They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they ... Continue reading