# \#Artificial-Intelligence **URL:** https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/tag/artificial-intelligence/27.md [Latest](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/tags.md) --- ## [When Will We Have to Decide Who Counts as a Person?](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/when-will-we-have-to-decide-who-counts-as-a-person/17997)
**Author:** [@Roman](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/Roman)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2026, 12:36am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/when-will-we-have-to-decide-who-counts-as-a-person/17997 "2026-09-17T00:36:34Z")
In an earlier thread — Could Adam and Eve Have Been the First Embodied Persons Within an Existing Homo sapiens Population? — the discussion gradually moved well beyond the original question. We ended up talking about an… --- ## [How Grok Learned to be a Nazi](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/how-grok-learned-to-be-a-nazi/17306)
**Author:** [@Faizal\_Ali](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/Faizal_Ali)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [July 12, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/how-grok-learned-to-be-a-nazi/17306 "2025-07-12T13:54:55Z")
Given how frequently Grok is cited as a source by some members here, this current story seems relevant: On July 4, Elon Musk announced that his company had “improved @Grok significantly.” Users should “notice a differe… --- ## [Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/simulating-500-million-years-of-evolution-with-a-language-model/17007)
**Author:** [@sfmatheson](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/sfmatheson)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 26, 2025, 1:36pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/simulating-500-million-years-of-evolution-with-a-language-model/17007 "2025-01-26T13:36:05Z")
Two things I note about this new paper: First, the tool (a LLM called ESM3) looks fun and interesting. The authors describe it thus: ESM3 achieves a scalable generative model of the three fundamental properties of pro… --- ## [Generative AI Is Still Just a Prediction Machine](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/generative-ai-is-still-just-a-prediction-machine/16894)
**Author:** [@Tim](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/Tim)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2024, 1:02am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/generative-ai-is-still-just-a-prediction-machine/16894 "2024-11-21T01:02:42Z")
Archive version containing full text This seems to me to be an important aspect of Generative AI that often gets obscured – Gen AI only predicts (e.g. the next words, computer code, etc), it does not analyse, or ‘thin… --- ## [Cartoon Friday #8](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/cartoon-friday-8/16881)
**Author:** [@AllenWitmerMiller](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/AllenWitmerMiller)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2024, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/cartoon-friday-8/16881 "2024-11-15T13:54:34Z")
Recent events are such a gold mine for political wit that every comedy writer out there—especially those working for the late night talk shows—is coming up with similar material. I saw at least two versions of this same… --- ## [A.I. explains "inside jokes"](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/a-i-explains-inside-jokes/16810)
**Author:** [@AllenWitmerMiller](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/AllenWitmerMiller)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 7, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/a-i-explains-inside-jokes/16810 "2024-10-07T20:49:21Z")
CONTEXT: I am involved in consulting and marketing for a petroleum industry invention \[with applications in many other industries and laboratories\] and created the following cartoon for brochures, webpages, advertiseme… --- ## [Origin of Life and Information Theory](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/origin-of-life-and-information-theory/16768)
**Author:** [@AndyWalsh](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/AndyWalsh)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2024, 11:26pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/origin-of-life-and-information-theory/16768 "2024-08-26T23:26:26Z")
I finally had the chance to read the preprint mentioned in this thread: And wouldn’t you know it, they introduce a metric they call “high-order entropy” which is the difference of Shannon entropy and Kolmogorov compl… --- ## [How AI is being used to accelerate clinical trials](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/how-ai-is-being-used-to-accelerate-clinical-trials/16563)
**Author:** [@Dan\_Eastwood](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/Dan_Eastwood)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 4:07pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/how-ai-is-being-used-to-accelerate-clinical-trials/16563 "2024-03-18T16:07:14Z")
How AI is being used to accelerate clinical trials From study design to patient recruitment, researchers are investigating ways that technology could speed up the process. I can where AI will be helpful in writing pr… --- ## [ChatGPT knows who I am](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/chatgpt-knows-who-i-am/15818)
**Author:** [@swamidass](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/swamidass)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2023, 5:50pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/chatgpt-knows-who-i-am/15818 "2023-02-13T17:50:04Z")
This is a little spooky. Keep in mind that ChatGPT does not have access to the internet. Who is Joshua Swamidass? Dr. Joshua Swamidass is an American computational biologist and Associate Professor of Pathology and … --- ## [Language Models Generate Functional Proteins With Completely Novel Sequences](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/language-models-generate-functional-proteins-with-completely-novel-sequences/15788)
**Author:** [@RonSewell](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/RonSewell)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2023, 3:30am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/language-models-generate-functional-proteins-with-completely-novel-sequences/15788 "2023-01-31T03:30:30Z")
A recurring theme in creationism and especially ID, is that proteins are brittle, that the coding sequence must be very exact to function, and the odds of randomly generating the required order is one in a million gazill… --- ## [How Did Consciousness Evolve? An Illustrated Guide](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/how-did-consciousness-evolve-an-illustrated-guide/15196)
**Author:** [@swamidass](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/swamidass)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 26, 2022, 2:42pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/how-did-consciousness-evolve-an-illustrated-guide/15196 "2022-06-26T14:42:24Z")
--- ## [Neuron Bursts Can Mimic Famous AI Learning Strategy](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/neuron-bursts-can-mimic-famous-ai-learning-strategy/14435)
**Author:** [@swamidass](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/swamidass)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2021, 5:57am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/neuron-bursts-can-mimic-famous-ai-learning-strategy/14435 "2021-10-20T05:57:14Z")
AI engineers solved the credit assignment problem for machines with a powerful algorithm called backpropagation, popularized in 1986 with the work of Geoffrey Hinton, David Rumelhart and Ronald Williams. It’s now the … --- ## [Strong evidence that a search algorithm can find high functionality in an astronomically large search space](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/strong-evidence-that-a-search-algorithm-can-find-high-functionality-in-an-astronomically-large-search-space/14248)
**Author:** [@Chris\_Falter](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/Chris_Falter)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2021, 9:41pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/strong-evidence-that-a-search-algorithm-can-find-high-functionality-in-an-astronomically-large-search-space/14248 "2021-09-22T21:41:09Z")
A common argument by Intelligent Design theoreticians (Dembski, Meyer, Behe) and forum participants (you know who you are! :slight\_smile: ) is that the astronomically large DNA search space makes the probability of findi… --- ## [Could Medical Ethics Guide Us to Good AI?](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/could-medical-ethics-guide-us-to-good-ai/13220)
**Author:** [@swamidass](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/swamidass)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 18, 2021, 6:03pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/could-medical-ethics-guide-us-to-good-ai/13220 "2021-02-18T18:03:10Z")
Could Medical Ethics Guide Us to Good AI? As the Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution continues to transform the world, more and more ethical questions are rising. Could our experience in medicine help … --- ## [Who Should Stop Unethical A.I.?](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/who-should-stop-unethical-a-i/13218)
**Author:** [@swamidass](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/swamidass)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2021, 12:04am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/who-should-stop-unethical-a-i/13218 "2021-02-17T00:04:36Z")
--- ## [AI finally provides augmented intelligence to liver surgeons](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/ai-finally-provides-augmented-intelligence-to-liver-surgeons/12468)
**Author:** [@swamidass](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/swamidass)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2020, 6:23am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/ai-finally-provides-augmented-intelligence-to-liver-surgeons/12468 "2020-11-18T06:23:52Z")
AI finally provides augmented intelligence to liver surgeons This study answers to a real need as every liver surgeon knows that MS is a major predictor of early graft dysfunction and that macroscopic evaluation poorl… --- ## [How Your Heart Influences What You Perceive and Fear](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/how-your-heart-influences-what-you-perceive-and-fear/11192)
**Author:** [@swamidass](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/swamidass)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/how-your-heart-influences-what-you-perceive-and-fear/11192 "2020-07-21T13:54:40Z")
--- ## [IBM Pulls Racially-Biased Facial Recognition Technology](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/ibm-pulls-racially-biased-facial-recognition-technology/10914)
**Author:** [@swamidass](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/swamidass)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2020, 9:01pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/ibm-pulls-racially-biased-facial-recognition-technology/10914 "2020-06-12T21:01:44Z")
Facial recognition is skewed to fail on black faces. All companies perform better on lighter subjects as a whole than on darker subjects as a whole with an 11.8% - 19.2% difference in error rates. IBM had the larges…