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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 23, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence
Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Jonathan Bartlett: Can computers simply evolve greater intelligence, Avida-style?

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September 23, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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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. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 15, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design
Mind
Religion
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What about claims that robots can become spiritual?

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September 15, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind, Religion
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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. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 6, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence
Human evolution
Mind
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Jonathan Bartlett: Does evolution mean computers will take over?

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September 6, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Human evolution, Mind
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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 a choice to integrate with our technological masters or be left behind as a relic of evolutionary history, just one more living fossil roaming the landscape. It is interesting how the theory of evolution contributes to this idea of a technological singularity (an endpoint of human history as we know it). Ma, while impressed with technology, is more impressed with humans. He points out that Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 12, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design
Mind
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Artificial vs human intelligence: Sabine Hossenfelder offers us 10 differences

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August 12, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind
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As AI types like to say, the system is so easily fooled because it doesn’t “know” anything. We are slowly learning, in consequence, more about what it means for a human being to “know” something. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 5, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence
Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Science
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Astronomer Martin Rees on why science is approaching its limits

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August 5, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Science
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And how it can transcend them via “intelligent design.” Be warned. In the middle of the bridge to the post-human artificial intelligence future sits a fat troll called the Halting Problem, waiting for an unsuspecting computer idealist to wander by… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 31, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design
Mind
Naturalism
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Computers can’t think like people; they only do symbolic logic

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July 31, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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Engineering prof Karl D. Stephan: Symbolic logic says nothing about the truth or reality of what you give it. To understand what things really are, you have to get outside the pristine mathematical structure of symbolic logic and embrace what Prof. Kreeft calls Socratic logic. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 31, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence
Culture
Intelligent Design
Mind
Naturalism
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Bob Marks: Bias is inevitable in AI; time to admit it

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July 31, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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Marks’s point is that such biases are not a matter of villains taking over. It’s a normal feature of the way people think. And people program computers. Doubtless, it finds its way into evolution issues for which people say they ran a simulation on a computer. Read More ›