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Tag Archives: Artificial intelligence

10 Mar
Philosophy & Psychology

Are our thoughts ‘real’?

  • 10/03/2025
  • By author-avatar Sam Baron
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You can doubt just about anything. But there’s one thing you can know for sure: you are having thoughts right now. This idea came to...

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03 Feb
Philosophy & Psychology

How psychologists kick-started AI by studying the human mind

  • 05/02/2025
  • By author-avatar Armita Zarnegar
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Many people think of psychology as being primarily about mental health, but its story goes far beyond that. As the science of the mind,...

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23 Oct
Science & Health

What will AI really mean for science?

  • 23/10/2024
  • By author-avatar Ehsan Nabavi
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken centre stage in basic science. The five winners of the 2024 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Phy...

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11 Jul
Science & Health

Will AI help or hinder trust in science?

  • 13/07/2024
  • By author-avatar Jon Whittle
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In the past year, generative artificial intelligence tools — such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and OpenAI’s video generation tool ...

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30 Sep
Science & Health

Does AI have a right to free speech?

  • 30/09/2023
  • By author-avatar Simon McCarthy-Jones
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The world has witnessed breathtaking advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI), with ChatGPT being one of the best known exam...

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13 Sep
Letters to the Editor

The limits of liberty 

  • 05/02/2024
  • By author-avatar Rationale Magazine
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Editor’s note: If you would like to submit a letter for possible publication, please email it to editor@rationalist.com.au. See our ...

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09 Aug
Philosophy & Psychology

What 17th-century philosophy can tell us about artificial intelligence

  • 11/07/2024
  • By author-avatar Jack Dikian
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René Descartes' interests extended to diverse subjects, and one of the most striking subjects he studied was machine thinking. That he ...

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05 Jun
Science & Health

AI and the problems of personification

  • 05/06/2023
  • By author-avatar David James
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In literary criticism, a commonly used term is ‘personification’, which describes when a writer invests natural phenomena with human qu...

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25 May
Science & Health

The impact and implications of large language models

  • 25/05/2023
  • By author-avatar James Fodor
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Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Google Bard have attracted a great deal of publicity in recent months due to their imp...

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22 May
Science & Health

We need to stop treating AI like humans

  • 23/05/2023
  • By author-avatar Neil Saunders
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The artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer Geoffrey Hinton recently resigned from Google, warning of the dangers of the technology...

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24 Mar
Philosophy & Psychology

Gods in the machine: Artificial intelligence and new religions

  • 24/03/2023
  • By author-avatar Neil McArthur
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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...

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03 Mar
Science & Health

The future role of human judgement

  • 06/03/2023
  • By author-avatar 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 ...

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