When you consider all the reasons why machines cannot be creative, one must ask, is the belief that we can build superintelligent machines rooted in naturalism (nature is all there is), often called “materialism,” or in evidence?
Artificial Intelligence
Will AI merge with evolution to shatter human exceptionalism?
The advantage of adding talk of evolution to transhumanism is that it turns a perennial tale of immortality just out of reach into a chronicle of inevitable ascent, like the fabled “Ascent of Man.”
Naturalists (materialists) can’t believe in love
They try but somehow the love story just won’t tell itself in a way that makes any sense: It may sound rational to conjecture that love is merely an emergent property of consciousness that has matured throughout the course of human evolution. But emergence is no less of a “god of the gaps” belief than […]
Would you know if a robot was writing the news about ID? How?
It’s not that robots are really thinking up new things so much as that so much of what passes for news coverage doesn’t require much thought.
If you need a benevolent god, look no further than Netflix
No sermons, no tithing, but there is a price to be paid.
Eric Holloway: Strong Artificial Intelligence Must Be Possible! Really…?
He argues that many arguments for strong artificial intelligence depend on an ideological commitment to explicit, unproven theories about the universe.
Detroit: Become Human – Adam Nieri on the twin pillars of the AI religion
Nieri looks at them as the narrative of the sci-fi game Detroit: Become Human develops them: A Closer Look at Detroit: Become Human, Part I Gaming culture provides a window into our culture’s assumptions about artificial intelligence (Adam Nieri) In the game, Detroit has transcended its current economic despair, emerging as the epicenter of the […]
Some reasons why machines won’t take over
Even if some people would like them to. In case the subject comes up over coffee. For example, ● Finally, physicist Alfredo Metere of the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) insists that AI must deal in specifics but humans live in an indefinitely blurry world that is always changing: AI is a bunch of mathematical […]
Gaming culture’s assumption about artificial and human intelligence
A gamer looks at Detroit: Becoming Human where, of course, you can choose what happens.
Eric Holloway: The Brain Exceeds the Most Powerful Computers in Efficiency
Human thinking takes vastly less computational effort to arrive at the same conclusions: For example, using a rough estimate for processing, let’s say the DeepMind AlphaGo Zero AI takes 16 quintillion CPU cycles of training, that is, (a thousand raised to the power of six (1018), to exceed a human level of play in Go. On the […]
Jay Richards: That Robot Is Not Self-Aware
The way the media cover AI, you’d swear they had invented being hopelessly naïve: Chances are, you’ve already seen this headline or one of many like it: “Robot that thinks for itself from scratch brings forward rise the self-aware machines” It’s from a story first published inThe Telegraph (UK), then by Yahoo News and MSN, […]
Silicon Valley invents a religion suited to the culture
The most important characteristic of an AI cult is that its gods (Godbots?) will be created by the AI developers and not the other way around
Philosopher of science Mike Keas: Artificial intelligence (AI) as an emergent religion
Many Singulatarians hold that their soon-to-be-realized technology will be indistinguishable by the rest of us from magic. Are they serious? Well, in 2005, Kurzweil said that the magical Harry Potter stories “are not unreasonable visions of our world as it will exist only a few decades from now.” when, due to AI, “the entire universe will […]
Winston Ewert: Will the Free Market Help or Hurt Us in an AI-Empowered World?
He argues that we may need new institutions, such as insurance against job obsolescence: I believe that humans are creative enough to come with the new institutions necessary to adapt to a changing world. What I fear is that we will not be allowed to do so. We do not live in an ideal free […]
Will AI art end the artist’s life?
Artists can instantiate their ideas more efficiently using better tools. Michelangelo could be more precise than the Stone Age cave artists. But artists can’t just use AI to automate creativity so that the machine writes masterpieces while they doze off. Information does not create and arrange itself via magic.