A recent news item suggests that AI may help bring fusion power to the table on the long used but challenging Tokamak toroidal reactor architecture. This would be a major positive use of AI technology, if it proves sufficiently reliable: Artificial intelligence (AI), a branch of computer science that is transforming scientific inquiry and industry, […]
Artificial Intelligence
Robert J. Marks: What do AI and evolution have in common?
Many biologists claimed to have written code to simulate evolution. But the popularization of the No Free Lunch theorems showed that the computer programmer must infuse guiding information into the evolutionary program to make it work. To explain the diversity of creativity, an evolution process must be directed.
Why it’s hard to come up with a test for AI intelligence
Holloway: Intelligence, like randomness, is mathematically undefinable.
Dawkins’s successor at Oxford claims true AI creativity is coming
He recognizes that present AI displays the creativity of its creators and not that of a machine-based intelligence but why let that get in the way of a promising theory?.
Jonathan Bartlett: Swamidass gets the Evangelical Statement on AI wrong
Bartlett: Rather than lacking insight into AI issues, this band of theologians is especially sagacious in applying theology to them.
45 experts tell us when AI will think like people – and they’re all over the map
It’s almost as if we’re missing something
How the human brain works is actually quite controversial
If the AI boosters really knew how the human brain functions, they’d be getting the Nobel for Medicine instead of some geek prize.
Intelligent computers? You may as well believe that Penn and Teller really do magic
A computer is not—in and of itself—smarter than a pile of tinkertoys, philosopher Ed Feser argues
AI meets Eek! Eek!
This summer, AI will be put through virtual mazes designed to test the intelligence of lab animals.
Jay Richards: New evangelical statement on AI avoids major pitfalls
Including irrelevance. “Although the Statement nowhere distinguishes between “weak” and “strong” AI, the signers are clearly (and rightly) skeptical that computers can become conscious moral agents.”
Robert J. Marks: Do robots make better decisions?
No. Algorithms—including the ones used by Netflix—can’t be creative.
Philosopher: A multiverse underlies the ultimate vision of technocrats
That’s what George Gilder says. And he thinks it won’t work.
Jay Richards: In an information economy, the human person will be at the very center
Just the sheer hype from the AI rules! proponents alone should warn us to listen to a different perspective.
Simpson’s Paradox: Numbers are stranger than we think
One outcome of Simpson’s Paradox is that machines cannot replace statisticians in analysing results. A great deal depends on interpretation, as Marks shows. “Clustering remains largely an art.”
Artificial intelligence is not dangerous. Only natural intelligence is dangerous
There is a huge media pundit industry anxious to persuade us that machines will come to think like people when the actual concern should be quite the opposite… people will come to think like machines and won’t see through their pretensions. See, for example, A Short Argument Against the Materialist Account of the Mind.