Artificial Intelligence

Why We Need ‘Verification Bots’: Carnap’s Plan to End Fake AI Facts

Rudolf Carnap, Artificial Intelligence, Contemporary, Thinkers

In October 2024, the Australian government discovered something alarming in a $440,000 report from Deloitte: fabricated quotes, non-existent academic sources, and a citation from a federal court judgment that never existed. The culprit wasn’t a lazy consultant but an AI system that had “hallucinated” its references. This wasn’t an isolated incident. Across courtrooms, hospitals, universities, […]

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Why the AI Revolution Was Predicted in 1637, Netherlands

René Descartes, Artificial Intelligence, Enlightenment, Philosophy, Thinkers

In a modest room in the Netherlands, a French philosopher sat by his stove and contemplated the nature of thought itself. The year was 1637, and René Descartes was about to publish a work that would inadvertently lay the conceptual groundwork for the artificial intelligence revolution (AI) that would unfold nearly four centuries later. While

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Can Machines Really Think? Let’s Ask the Man Who Defined Formal Thought: Gottlob Frege (Artificial Intelligence)

Artificial Intelligence, Contemporary, Editors Pick, Gottlob Frege, Must Read, Philosophy, Thinkers

The question if machines can truly think has haunted us since the first computers began solving mathematical problems at speeds that put human calculators to shame. Today, as artificial intelligence systems write poetry, diagnose diseases, and engage in conversations that can fool us into thinking we’re talking to another person, the question feels more urgent

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Hume’s Intellectual Legacy: The 18th-Century Shock That Still Echoes

Editors Pick, Artificial Intelligence, David Hume, Enlightenment, Must Read, Philosophy, Thinkers

When David Hume published A Treatise of Human Nature in 1739, he expected to revolutionize philosophy. Instead, the book, as he later lamented, “fell dead-born from the press.” Yet this initial failure masked what would become one of the most profound intellectual earthquakes in Western thought. Nearly three centuries later, Hume’s ideas continue to reverberate

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Plato and Artificial Intelligence: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Machines

Plato, Artificial Intelligence, Classical, Editors Pick, Philosophy, Thinkers

In the fourth century BCE, Plato asked a question that continues to perplex thinkers and, increasingly, computer scientists: what distinguishes genuine knowledge from mere belief or opinion? As artificial intelligence systems get advanced capabilities, we find ourselves revisiting this ancient idea that combines Plato and Artificial Intelligence. Can machines genuinely possess knowledge, or do they

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Why We Need ‘Verification Bots’: Carnap’s Plan to End Fake AI Facts

Why the AI Revolution Was Predicted in 1637, Netherlands

Can Machines Really Think? Let’s Ask the Man Who Defined Formal Thought: Gottlob Frege (Artificial Intelligence)

Hume’s Intellectual Legacy: The 18th-Century Shock That Still Echoes

Plato and Artificial Intelligence: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Machines

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