Brendan Dixon – Uncommon Descent

Artificial Intelligence Intelligent Design

Brendan Dixon: You are the ghost in the machine that powers AI

The machine can’t be smarter than you because you program it.

Artificial Intelligence Intelligent Design

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?.

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Biologic Institute’s Brendan Dixon asks, could AI Winter be looming?

Artificial intelligence crashes are historically common: First, what caused previous AI winters? There was one straightforward reason: The technology did not work. Expert systems weren’t experts. Language translators failed to translate. Even Watson, after winning Jeopardy, failed to provide useful answers in the real-world context of medicine. When technology fails, winters come. Nearly all of Read More…

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Brendan Dixon: Even the skeptical Deep Learning researcher left out one AI myth

Readers may remember Dixon from the time MIT tried building a universal moral machine. Here are some of his thoughts on one overlooked aspect of the “superintelligent AI” myth: [Google AI researcher] Francois Chollet is right to recognize that we, like all animals, come pre-wired. Young deer stand, leap, and run within hours of birth. Read More…

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Once upon a time, MIT tried building a universal Moral Machine…

In an effort to program self-driving cars to make decisions in a crisis, MIT’s Moral Machine offered 2.3 million people worldwide a chance to crowdsource who to kill and who to spare in a road mishap… The project aimed at building righteous self-driving cars revealed stark differences in global values. People from China and Japan Read More…

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martin_r chuck, Dawkins has a whole new book out on flight. How timely is that? you mean a biologist has a... – Of Dragonflies, Spitfires and Elliptical Wings
Querius JVL @345, Code as in what computer programmers do is not at all like what is seen in DNA. In... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
groovamos The issue is whether it should be legal for adults to undergo medical treatment to change their sex if that’s... – Give Dawkins credit for guts: He...
Querius Origenes @347, For the sake of rational coherence, can we all agree that a watch does not “appear” to be... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
chuckdarwin KF/18 Dragonflies are exhibiting classic Beheian devolution. Getting smaller and smaller. Pretty soon they will fit in a thimble. By... – Of Dragonflies, Spitfires and Elliptical Wings
Origenes CR @347 For example, the very same watch could appear to have wildly more or less of the appearance of... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
critical rationalist CR, you tried to suggest that a watch is an analogue instrument so bits are irrelevant. I simply pointed out... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
bornagain77 How life changes itself: the Read-Write (RW) genome. - 2013 Excerpt: Research dating back to the 1930s has shown that... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
JVL Kairosfocus: , typified by algorithmic code in string data structures in the cell. Code as in what computer programmers do... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
bornagain77 as to: Harvard’s Richard Lewontin summarized it, organisms ” … appear to have been carefully and artfully designed.” 4 He... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
vividbleau Sort of a funny story but instructive. I play Texas Holdem and the worst starting hand is seven deuce off... – Give Dawkins credit for guts: He...
vividbleau “The issue is whether it should be legal for adults to undergo medical treatment to change their sex if that’s... – Give Dawkins credit for guts: He...
Querius Kairosfocus @341, Complex design comes from competent, intelligently directed configuration, here, typified by algorithmic code in string data structures in... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
relatd Kf at 23, You speak without a comprehensive background. The German Jumo jet engine was axial as opposed to Whittle's... – Of Dragonflies, Spitfires and Elliptical Wings
relatd Querius, You're still missing the basic idea. Machines can never exist without people to make them. You seem to be... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
kairosfocus Related, you speak of 1942 not 1934, date of the elliptical wing. KF PS, it was want of materials that... – Of Dragonflies, Spitfires and Elliptical Wings
kairosfocus AF, after decades of attempting to deny recognition of design, now we see oh the issue is source. Complex design... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
Querius Relatd @332, You are completely missing the big picture. Before Computer Aided Design there was pencil and paper – still... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
kairosfocus Q, information is readily defined and measured, this is part of telecommunications theory, that is where bits comes from. Design... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
JVL Relatd: How did unguided evolution invent body plans? Via a process of inheritable variation and cumulative selection. As I have... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...