Category: Neuroscience & Mind
Scientists Probe Stupidity; What Would We Do Without Scientists?
In their own scientific research, psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger have offered the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Marks on the AI Church: “The Singularity Is Far”
New religions, including one centered on Artificial Intelligence, follow a stereotyped pattern.
Congratulations! Coyne Promotes Egnor to “Archenemy”
Archenemy sounds a little…obsessive.
Great Minds: Marks, Medved on Human Exceptionalism’s Two Frontiers
There are fundamental, unbridgeable chasms on either side, animal and machine. The capacity for creativity, for one thing, stands permanently outside the reach of algorithms.
Talking Animals and Human Exceptionalism
Whether in Warner Bros. cartoons, old jokes, or on Twitter, a good deal of humor has been derived from supposing that animals could talk.
