Category: A Curiosity
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ChatGPT & its ilk seem almost conscious, but are they?
Here’s my short-n-sweet take on where we stand today. “Consciousness”, “Singularity”, “Artificial General Intelligence” (AGI), “sentience” — whatever you want to call it. Is AI there yet? Can it become conscious? Current AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc. have no understanding of what is real. They just scrape documents from the web, do pattern…
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Looking Too Closely at Light Blew Newtonian Physics out of the Water
Newtonian physics works pretty darned well. It’s our common-sense experience of the world translated into the jargon of math and science. As I write in Why Stuff Falls Down: Newton’s groundbreaking ideas, developed using the principles of the Scientific Revolution, proved to be so trustworthy that they soon became accepted as full-blown Laws of Nature.…
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Force That Takes No Energy
There are forces that we see every day that take no energy. How can you have a force that takes no energy? It all began with me musing as to how a magnet sticks to my refrigerator. A conversation with some physics folks on Discord helped me sort out my thoughts. I realized that most…