Category: Artificial Intelligence
There will be cyborgs on Mars! says well-known astronomer
| November 15, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Science |
From Sir Martin Rees at NBC: AI apocalypse is certainly in the air. Elon Musk, Henry Kissinger, and the late Stephen Hawking have all predicted an AI doomsday. Industry professionals’ doubt and disparagement don’t seem to register with the media in the same way. Rees, who is former president of the Royal Society, goes further, […]
Brendan Dixon: Even the skeptical Deep Learning researcher left out one AI myth
| November 15, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind |
Readers may remember Dixon from the time MIT tried building a universal moral machine. Here are some of his thoughts on one overlooked aspect of the “superintelligent AI” myth: [Google AI researcher] Francois Chollet is right to recognize that we, like all animals, come pre-wired. Young deer stand, leap, and run within hours of birth. […]
Life forms are not machines and neurons are not neural networks
| November 12, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Mind |
From Mind Matters: Much popular literature leaves the impression that living organisms are machines or even billions of them linked together. For example, at Medium, we learn, Brains receive input from the outside world, their neurons do something to that input, and create an output. That output may be a thought (I want curry for […]
Is the human mind best seen as a halting oracle?
| November 12, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Mind |
Eric Holloway explains Jonathan Bartlett’s account of the human mind as a halting oracle: In his paper, “Using Turing oracles in cognitive models of problem-solving” Jonathan Bartlett proposes to model the human mind as a halting oracle. A brief explanation: Computer science pioneer Alan Turing (1912–1954) imagined a universal machine that can copy any other […]
Software pioneer: The nature of intelligence forbids general artificial intelligence
| November 9, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design |
This post went viral yesterday at Mind Matters: The 2014 science fiction film Transcendence featured a scientist who uploaded his consciousness into an AI program. Many people talk as though things like that are just around the corner. But industry pros say it isn’t really possible. Why not? François Chollet, author of Keras, a framework […]
Once upon a time, MIT tried building a universal Moral Machine…
| November 3, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Ethics, Intelligent Design, Mind |
In an effort to program self-driving cars to make decisions in a crisis, MIT’s Moral Machine offered 2.3 million people worldwide a chance to crowdsource who to kill and who to spare in a road mishap… The project aimed at building righteous self-driving cars revealed stark differences in global values. People from China and Japan […]
Jonathan Bartlett: Self-driving vehicles are just around the corner, all right
| October 27, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Intelligent Design, Mind |
On the other side of a vast chasm… The code needed to detect and handle the flow between the situations increases polynomially with the number of driving situations we must address. That is, if we have 2 driving situations, there are 2 possible transitions to account for. If we have 3 driving situations, there are […]
Multiverse proponent Max Tegmark on how AI could run the world
| October 27, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind |
In his book, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, (2017), MIT physics prof Tegmark offers a science fiction scenario for how AI colossus Prometheus, produced by a group of idealistic programmers, the Omegas, could take over the world. And not only take over the world but make it a bureaucrat’s idea of a […]
Michael Egnor: Is free will a dangerous myth?
| October 6, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind |
The belief that there is no free will is a much more dangerous myth, he writes, at Mind Matters Today: There are four reasons to affirm the reality of free will against denial by materialist determinists. Two reasons are logical, and two are scientific. … 4. While scientific experiments do not entirely settle the matter, […]
Who Built AI? You did, mostly!
| October 5, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Mind |
At Mind Matters Today, he explains, Along with millions of others, you are providing free training data: All of the most successful AI projects tend to follow a similar pattern. One of AI’s biggest needs is lots of data, and one of the most important tasks is finding ways to get people to provide them with […]
Do cells use passwords?
| October 4, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Cell biology, Intelligent Design |
Sloan Kettering molecular biologist argues that this may not be semantics. What if that’s what they are actually doing, in effect? One wonders, how would it affect cancer treatment? Abstract: Living organisms must maintain proper regulation including defense and healing. Life-threatening problems may be caused by pathogens or an organism’s own cells’ deficiency or hyperactivity, in […]
Neurosurgeon: Neither books nor brains learn, only minds learn
| October 1, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience |
Recently, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor offered a parable about whether machines really learn. The tale features a book that “learned” to fall open at the right places. Computer scientist Jeffrey Shallit responded, claiming that machines really CAN learn!, and Dr. Egnor responded to him, pointing out that a baseball glove can “learn” the game if adjustment […]
Google is doomed because it doesn’t get information theory
| September 30, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Information, Intelligent Design, Mind |
That’s tech philosopher George Gilder’s view: Last month, World News Daily did a three-part interview with George Gilder on the publication of Life after Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy, which unpacks some of the book’s main ideas: Part One: “Reagan guru, predictor of iPhone foresees new web revolution” […]
Jeffrey Shallit takes on Mike Egnor: Machines really CAN learn!
| September 25, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind |
Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor tells us that computer engineer Jeffrey Shallit, known for attacking ID, has responded to his recent parable explaining why machines can’t learn. According to Shallit, a computer is not just a machine, but something quite special: Computer scientist Jeffrey Shallit takes issue with my parable (September 8, 2018) about “machine learning.” The […]
Computer engineer Eric Holloway: Artificial intelligence is impossible
| September 25, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Information, Intelligent Design |
Holloway distinguishes between meaningful information and artificial intelligence: What is meaningful information, and how does it relate to the artificial intelligence question? First, let’s start with Claude Shannon’s definition of information. Shannon (1916–2001), a mathematician and computer scientist, stated that an event’s information content is the negative logarithm* of its probability. So, if I flip […]
Why computer programs that mimic the human brain will continue to underperform
| September 17, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind |
Our physics color commentator Rob Sheldon offers a comment on whether simple probabilities can outweigh “deep learning” (as noted earlier here. ) When neural nets [computer programs that mimic the human brain] were all the rage in physics, some 25 years ago, I spoke with the author of a paper who was using neural nets […]
Researcher: A “chemical brain” will solve the hard problem of consciousness
| September 16, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Origin Of Life |
Because silicon can’t, says chemist: WHEN Lee Cronin was 9 he was given a Sinclair ZX81 computer and a chemistry set. Unlike most children, Cronin imagined how great it would be if the two things could be combined to make a programmable chemical computer. Now 45 and the Regius Chair of Chemistry at the University of […]
Making intelligent machines persons hits a few snags
| September 15, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind |
Earlier this year, over 150 experts in AI, robotics, ethics, and supporting disciplines signed an open letter denouncing the European Parliament’s proposal to make intelligent machines persons. According to Canadian futurist George Dvorsky, the Parliament’s purpose is to hold the machines liable for damages, as a corporation might be: “The EU is understandably worried that […]
