What Are You Searching for, Dave?

<p>This week, Dan Hugger, Dan Churchwell, and Dylan Pahman discuss the question of artificial intelligence, particularly the software behind a series of AI chatbots that have become publicly available in the past year. What are the possible uses and abuses, especially when incorporated into search engines like Microsoft’s Bing? And what happens when they stop being polite and start acting as if they were alive?</p><br><p>Then the panel discusses a paper presented last week by Dylan Pahman at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s American Politics and Government Summit. The paper, titled “A Brief, Christian Prehistory of American Liberalism,” addresses an ongoing and often contentious debate within the American conservative movement on the place of the liberal tradition within conservatism.</p><br><p><a href="http://acton.org/audio" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Subscribe to our podcasts</a></p><p><a href="https://acton.swoogo.com/businessmatters" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Register Now for Business Matters 2023</a></p><p><a href="https://university.acton.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Apply Now for Acton University 2023 (Early Bird Pricing)</a></p><br><p><a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90853591/chatgpt-science-fiction-short-stories-clarkesworld-magazine-submissions" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A science fiction magazine closed submissions after being bombarded with stories written by ChatGPT | Fast Company</a></p><br><p><a href="http://neil-clarke.com/a-concerning-trend/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Concerning Trend | Neil Clarke</a></p><br><p><a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jtoPawEhLNXNxvgTT/bing-chat-is-blatantly-aggressively-misaligned" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bing Chat is blatantly, aggressively misaligned | Less Wrong</a> </p><br><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/technology-science-microsoft-corp-business-software-fb49e5d625bf37be0527e5173116bef3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot | AP News</a></p><br><p><a href="https://isi.org/events/american-politics-and-government-summit/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">American Politics And Government Summit | ISI</a></p><br><p>Photo Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

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