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A couple of years ago, I posted a frustrated screed about the potential for AI-generated slop to supplant actual creativity.  My anger at t...

I've spent a lot of time here at Skeptophilia  in the last five years warning about the (many) dangers of artificial intelligence. At th...

If you needed further evidence that the aliens who are running the simulation we're all trapped in have gotten drunk and/or stoned, and ...

Remember how in old college math textbooks, they'd present some theorem or another, and then say, "Proving this is left as an exerc...

In its seven-year run, Star Trek: The Next Generation  had some awe-inspiring and brilliantly creative moments.  "The Inner Light,...

In case you needed something else to facepalm about, today I stumbled on an article in Vice  about people who are blending AI with religion....

A recent study found that regardless how thoroughly AI-powered chatbots are trained with real, sensible text, they still have a hard time r...

Just in the last couple of weeks, I've been getting "sponsored posts" on Instagram suggesting what I really need is an "A...

The word creativity  is strangely hard to define. What makes a work "creative?"  The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy  states t...