Category: Artificial Intelligence
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 […]
AI and pop music: Can simple probabilities outperform deep learning?
| September 14, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind, Probability |
Haebichan Jung tells us that he built an original pop music-making machine “that could rival deep learning but with simpler solutions.” Deep learning “is a subfield of machine learning concerned with algorithms inspired by the structure and function of the brain called artificial neural networks.” (Jason Brownlee, Machine Learning Mastery) Jung tells us that he […]
How do emotional robots “care”?
| September 11, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Mind |
Well, they don’t, exactly, but here’s the deal: From Sapiens, a journal of Anthropology/Everything Human: Pepper is a white, semi-humanoid robot, about the size of a 6-year-old, made by Tokyo-based SoftBank Robotics. You may have seen him working in a bank or a hotel, or being interviewed by Neil deGrasse Tyson. According to the […]
Can machines really learn? Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor offers a parable
| September 9, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Information, Intelligent Design, Mind |
At Mind Matters Today: “Machine learning” is a hot field, and tremendous strides are being made in programming machines to improve as they work. Such machines work toward a goal, in a way that appears autonomous and seems eerily like human learning. But can machines really learn? What happens during machine learning, and is it […]
Could AI understand the universe better than we do?
| September 5, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism |
Better than we ever could? Recently, we discussed well-known chemist and atheist proponent Peter Atkins’s claim that science, not philosophy, answers the Big Questions: One class consists of invented questions that are often based on unwarranted extrapolations of human experience. They typically include questions of purpose and worries about the annihilation of the self, such […]
Could HAL 9000 ever be built? Robert Marks thinks so
| August 31, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind |
But could the psychotic computer ever be conscious? That’s another story. Marks, an author of Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics, weighs in, on the 50th anniversary of 2001: A Space Odyssey. At one point on the trip from Earth to Jupiter, HAL becomes suspicious that the crew might be sabotaging the mission. HAL then purposely tries […]
Daniel Dennett thinks a game can show that computers could really think
| August 29, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind |
Fr. Robert Verrill, OP, takes different view: In his paper “Real Patterns,” Tufts University philosopher Daniel Dennett writes the following: In my opinion, every philosophy student should be held responsible for an intimate acquaintance with the Game of Life. It should be considered an essential tool in every thought-experimenter’s kit, a prodigiously versatile generator of […]
Why it’s hard to model robots on human behavior
| August 23, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Mind |
As robotics engineer Ken Goldberg explains, What has working with robots taught you about being human? It has taught me to have a huge appreciation for the nuances of human behavior and the inconsistencies of humans. There are so many aspects of human unpredictability that we don’t have a model for. When you watch a […]
Finance prof: Artificial intelligence does not threaten complex jobs
| August 18, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind |
Not any time soon, according to an analyst at Bloomberg: It’s important to note that machine learning hasn’t yet made its mark on the economy — to paraphrase economist Robert Solow, you can see the machine learning age everywhere but in the economic statistics. Employment levels have returned to healthy levels, and there’s no evidence […]
Tech sector guru (and ID sympathizer) says life after Google will be okay
| August 16, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Intelligent Design, Mind |
People will take ownership of their own data, cutting out the giant “middle man.” George Gilder is an early sympathizer of intelligent design and taken his lumps for that. It wasn’t how the media wanted to perceive a tech sector guru. His most recent book, Life after Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise […]
Could one single machine invent everything?
| August 15, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Information, Intelligent Design, Mind |
The king was pleased with Schmedrik’s proposal. But just as he was about to hand over the requested amount, his wise advisor Previsio pulled him aside and whispered, “Dear king, before we pay Schmedrik his fee, do you not think it prudent to first determine if the Innovator works?”
Philosopher suggests another reason why machines can’t think as we do
| August 13, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Mind |
As philosopher Michael Polanyi has noted, much that we know is hard to codify or automate. From Denyse O’Leary at Mind Matters Today We have all encountered that problem. It’s common in healthcare and personal counseling. Some knowledge simply cannot be conveyed—or understood or accepted—in a propositional form. For example, a nurse counselor may see […]
Polanyi’s Paradox: Why machines can’t think as we do
| August 12, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Mind |
From Mind Matters today: Recently, we looked at Moravec’s Paradox, the fact that it is hard to teach machines to do things that are easy for most humans (walking, for example) but comparatively easy to teach them things that are challenging for most humans (chess comes to mind). Another paradox worth noting is Polanyi’s Paradox, […]
Coffee!! Is a Politically Correct chatbot as bad as Twitter? Worse?
| August 8, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind |
From Mind Matters Today: Many tweaks later, is Zo correct enough? Is everyone pleased? Well, maybe the digital teen is too Correct now. From Quartz, where Chloe Rose Stuart-Ulin has been checking in with Zo for over a year and finds her “sort of convincing,”speaking “fluent meme”: But there’s a catch. In typical sibling […]
AI That Can Read Minds? Deconstructing AI Hype
| August 5, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Mind |
From computer engineering prof Robert J. Marks at Mind Matters Today: Fake and misleading AI news is everywhere today. Here’s an example I ran across recently: A headline from a large-circulation daily’s web page screams: “No more secrets! New mind-reading machine can translate your thoughts and display them as text INSTANTLY!” Not just “instantly,” notice, but […]
Is Bitcoin Safe? Why the human side of security is critical
| August 3, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Mind |
From Jonathan Bartlett at Mind Matters Today: Bitcoin solves a lot of tough problems in very ingenious ways. Unfortunately, however, those benefits don’t tend to translate well for end users, who are not nearly as ingenious as the people developing the system. More. Readers will recognize Johnny Bartlett Jonathan Bartlett, Research and Education Director of […]
How to hack your unconscious mind
| August 2, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience |
Before we spend much time worrying about the AI apocalypse (evil robot minds destroy us, etc.), we should recall how little we know for sure about what a mind even is. Views differ dramatically.
