18+ hour, 18+ min ago   (31+ words) mindmatters.ai AI can solve a problem without understanding the proofs so the question arises, was anything learned that can be passed on?...

18+ hour, 23+ min ago   (188+ words) AI has drawn a great deal of attention for reportedly solving difficult mathematical problems. Some critics argue that the recent AI solution of the Navier-Stokes problem may have drawn heavily on solutions posted by human mathematicians. But there is a…...

22+ hour, 6+ min ago   (889+ words) Suppose you’re in a laundromat, or at a mid-desert highway rest stop vending machine. You need just one more quarter to get the machine to work. You see another patron with change and offer to give her a dollar bill…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (191+ words) In August, Cambridge’s youngest, widely celebrated black professor apparently committed suicide shortly after resigning amid plagiarism allegations — three days after his eagerly awaited book had dropped. Plenty of blame has been assigned. At Right Times, David Keighley looks at the…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (545+ words) This review by Bethel McGrew is republished from Science and Culture Today. The End of Oak Street, out digitally on September 15, should have been a box office hit on paper. Just look at the trailer. It’s an ’80s throwback movie! It…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1413+ words) How Philosophies can affect Genre Expectations In the previous review, I referred to Maz Kanata as the Anti-Yoda. This was somewhat hyperbolic, but I didn’t just make the comparison because she is clearly a knock-off of Yoda. The reason I…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (658+ words) A quarter century ago, in mid-September in Toronto, I was tidying plants on the retaining wall of the front yard. My mother was sipping coffee on the porch. A neighbor came out and called over, “Thought you might want to…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (740+ words) This republished article first appeared in New English Review Whatever happened to beautiful architecture, paintings or all things artistic? Many years ago, an art teacher called Robert Florczak, gave his graduate students a test. Unbeknownst to his class, he showed…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (646+ words) At Fast Company, we learn that “Bill Gates has a dire warning about AI,” publicized at the Telluride Film Festival. He prophesied “mass unemployment and major social, political, and economic upheaval across the globe.” His solution? In a 6000-word essay,…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (556+ words) Panpsychism has often appeared to be a strategy for rescuing materialism: We have minds, but so what? So do electrons! What about it? While Calvo now runs the Minimal Intelligence Lab at the University of Murcia in Spain, he started…...