John Lennox : I spent most of my life contending with people that think that science replaces God. And I see that as a very foolish argument really. It’s like saying that if you understand how a Ford motor car works, you don’t need to believe in Henry Ford.
Artificial Intelligence
Is human biology too complicated for humans to understand?
Craig Mundie’s dream is to build an AI that rivals human intellect to tackle problems in health care. He hopes to be able to customize medicine for every person by building a virtual proxy for every person. It’s almost like he is asking for biology to play tricks on him…
Multiverse physicist Max Tegmark switches gears; seeks AI to combat “news bias”
Readers may recall him from the four levels of multiverse he advocated in Scientific American in 2003. But forget that. He now thinks there is too much bias in American media and he is working on an AI program to combat it
Could really powerful AI be considered a life form?
An AI theorist makes that case to a technical writer…
Why are infants smarter than computers?
Even infants learn to generalize without programming and do not get stuck in endless feedback loops.
Oxford mathematician: Computers will not out-think humans
Lennox: Our undoubted progress in technology in terms of speed and competence can easily mask the huge barrier that stands in the way of superior intelligent machines — consciousness.
At Mind Matters News: George Montañez on what’s wrong with the Turing Test
Marks: It’s very easy to determine if who you’re talking to is a computer. You 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 30.
A philosopher explains how you can know for sure that you are not a sim
As philosopher Richard Johns explains, sims do not understand simhood: How can Alice determine whether the strange little man in her apartment who claims to be her Programmer is telling the truth? Recently, philosopher Richard Johns (left), whose work was profiled here at Mind Matters News in “A philosopher explains why thinking matter is impossible,” Read More…
AI replacing humans is consistent with Dawkins’s naturalist philosophy
Which is where the wheels come off.
Will we turn science over to computers?
Some have prophesied better futures for science than does the futuristic guy at the Santa Fe Institute.
Selmer Bringsjord: Why our minds can’t really be uploaded to computers
The basic problem is that human minds aren’t “computable.” Peter and Jane are not bits and bytes
Eric Holloway: Why your computer will never talk to you
As a jokester recently demonstrated, even “shirts without stripes” is a fundamental, unsolvable problem for computers.
Selmer Bringsjord: Can human minds be reduced to computer programs?
In Silicon Valley that has long been a serious belief. But are we really anywhere close?
Has any “thinking machine” passed the Lovelace test?
Surprising results from computer programs do not equate to creativity, says computer scientist Selmer Bringsjord. Is there such a thing as machine creativity? The feats of machines like AlphaGo are due to superior computational power, not to creativity at originating new ideas. Computer scientist Selmer Bringsjord sees the ability to write, say, a novel of Read More…
How the Lovelace test raises the stakes for thinking machines
The Turing test has had a free ride in science media for far too long, says an AI expert: In the view of Rensselaer philosopher and computer scientist Selmer Bringsjord, the iconic Turing test for human-like intelligence in computers is inadequate and easily gamed. Merely sounding enough like a human to fool people does not Read More…