As Robert J. Marks put it, Non-algorithmic things (things that cannot be calculated), “cannot be uploaded.” Human consciousness, little as we understand it, appears to be one of those non-algorithmic things.
Artificial Intelligence
At Psychology Today: There are TWO hard problems of consciousness, not one
Psychology prof Gregg Henriques argues, consciousness “plays by a different set of rules than the language game of science.”
Eric Holloway’s latest short story: Mindtrap
Also, Adam Nieri’s review of Sprites – an AI replacement for actors?
Is Mathematics falling under the sway of a computerised, AI-driven celebrity-authority culture?
Two recent remarks in VICE (a telling label, BTW) raise some significant concerns. First, Kevin Buzzard — no, this is not Babylon Bee [itself a sign when it is harder and harder to tell reality from satire] — Sept 26th: Number Theorist Fears All Published Math Is Wrong “I think there is a non-zero chance […]
Talking to a computer? Marks and Montañez offer tips on how to tell
Robert J. Marks: It’s always easy to determine if you are talking to a computer or a human. You can just ask them to compute the square root of 30 or something because a human would take a while to get the square root of thirty …
Does the Turing test help establish ID theory’s legitimacy?
The Turing test for design in computers relies on the same principles as the detection of design in nature. The materialist can have, in principle, no intelligence in either computers or nature or possible intelligence in both. But he can’t pick and choose.
Before you turn it all over to AI: Why the Laws of Robotics fail
Jonathan Bartlett, Eric Holloway, and Brendan Dixon explain: Prolific science and science fiction writer Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) developed the Three Laws of Robotics, in the hope of guarding against potentially dangerous artificial intelligence. They first appeared in his 1942 short story Runaround: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a […]
Eric Holloway: Friendly AI would kill us all
Our friendly godbot, Alfalfa and Omega would feel constrained to take such an action by the superior logic of its programming.
Jonathan Bartlett: Can computers simply evolve greater intelligence, Avida-style?
The failure to do so is consistent with Bill Dembski’s notion of displacement. Put simply, to develop complex functional systems, you can shift design around but you can’t actually get rid of it.
Amazon’s Alexa is testing out crowdsourcing
How did that work out at Wikipedia?
What about claims that robots can become spiritual?
Merritt promptly converts the hypothetical question about salvatin for aliens—which depends, of course, on the assumption that Martians are beings much like ourselves—into: Are you there, God? It’s I, robot.
Ed Feser on the delusion that computers are intelligent
”As Smith observes, a computer can be programmed to detect instances of the word “betrayal” in scanned texts, but it lacks the concept of betrayal.”
Jonathan Bartlett: Does evolution mean computers will take over?
Elon Musk sees technology as taking over the human world and we’d best consider our options. Ma points out that humans build computers but no computer has ever built a human: For Musk, technology is not a tool to promote humanity. Rather, technology will take humanity’s place of leadership in the world. Humans will have […]
Intelligent design? Ray Kurzweil’s AI-driven Singularity would make the whole universe intelligent
If computers got that smart. Kurzweil’s critics believe that the superintelligent computers he needs can’t exist. If the critics are correct, we have misread the AI revolution.
Computers’ stupidity makes them dangerous
Statistician Gary Smith thinks the real danger today is not that computers are smarter than us, but that we think computers are smarter than us.