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Denyse O'Leary
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April 28, 2019
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Jay Richards: New evangelical statement on AI avoids major pitfalls

Denyse O'Leary
April 28, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind
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." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 16, 2019
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Simpson’s Paradox: Numbers are stranger than we think

Denyse O'Leary
April 16, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Mind
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.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 14, 2019
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Artificial intelligence is not dangerous. Only natural intelligence is dangerous

Denyse O'Leary
April 14, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind
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. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 10, 2019
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John Steinbeck: Two men never created anything

Denyse O'Leary
April 10, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design
Computer engineering prof Robert Marks has had to reflect on what human creativity means, discussing the goals of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, of which he is the director. He found his inspiration in Nobel Prize-winning American novelist John Steinbeck’s conviction: “The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.” Read More ›