4+ day, 18+ hour ago  (160+ words) mindmatters. ai Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 1: 11: 09 | Recorded on June 19, 2026 In this bingecast installment of the Mind Matters News podcast, host Robert J. Marks welcomes economics professor and author Gary Smith to discuss the hype around artificial intelligence and…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago  (243+ words) This abridged version of my essay first appeared in New English Review What makes good dialogue in a film? For me, good dialogue is like great poetry where the real meaning can sometimes be hidden or disguised beneath the words....

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (881+ words) Last week's Micro Softy challenged our puzzlers ability to think abstractly. We explored how simple rules can lead to complex behavior when the rules are followed by unintelligent agents " in that case it was dumb bugs. We continue that theme…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (813+ words) I broke the argument down as follows: I've already dealt with premise A, and that by itself is enough to make the argument collapse, but there are additional issues with premises B and C. A gold watch is more valuable than…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (1108+ words) Open AI recently announced that one of its AI models autonomously tackled a prominent open problem in mathematics associated with Hungarian mathematician Paul Erd's's Problem #90. It concerns the unit distance problem in discrete geometry. Erd's's problem #90 asks for the maximum…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (1172+ words) Engineers, mathematicians, and computer scientists need to know some number theory, the branch of mathematics that studies the way numbers behave. Number theory is needed to understand modern data encryption, for example. This week's Micro Softy is about number theory…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (334+ words) Today's AI sucks up a lot of power that has raised significant environmental and societal impact concerns. Organoid intelligence (OA) " intelligence powered by living cells " might help us get around the environment and impact concerns. Grok-4 required about 310 gigawatt hours…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (1134+ words) I get irritated when somebody multiplies two numbers and gets the wrong answer, and then says, "I'm bad at math." "That's an overstatement that gives them undeserved status. They are bad at arithmetic, which is a very specialized area of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (40+ words) mindmatters. ai Science Fiction writers have over the past 100-plus years been warning us about the horrors of a dystopian future, but now we are reaching the point where such Sci-Fi stories are now becoming "Faction....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (848+ words) It turns out'Joe'saw David attempt to end his life from the helicopter. Apparently, this aircraft can also go underwater, so Joe and'Teddy'are able to rescue the robot. Joe helps David into the helicopter, and David tells him that he saw…...