Is AI taking off!
I notice that North American Intelligent Design guru William Dembski has been recently writing about Artificial Intelligence on his blog - see these links:
ChatGPT Is Becoming Increasingly Impressive in Real Time – Bill Dembski
Inferring the Best Explanation via Artificial Intelligence – Bill Dembski
ChatGPT on Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life – Bill Dembski
One of these articles also appeared on the NAID website "Evolution News"; see here. From a quick perusal of his articles, it seems that Dembski is impressed by ChatGPT and now has a high view of AI possibilities. Like myself he would probably maintain that AI is only a simulation and has no consciousness*, but I'd be interested to know if like myself he would be prepared to accept that human intelligence can be simulated algorithmically. If so that would set him apart from NAID guru Eric Hedin who appears to poo poo any thought that AI can be anything other than a glorified "printer" that churns out and at best rearranges information that has been generated by the "real" intelligence of human beings.
I think I'll be having a closer look at Dembski's posts.
* To generate consciousness we would have to use matter in the way the biological brain uses matter - see here for my guesses on this subject