George Montanez – Uncommon Descent

At Mind Matters News: George Montañez on what’s wrong with the Turing Test

Marks: It’s very easy to determine if who you’re talking to is a computer. You just ask them to compute the square root of 30 or something, because a human would take a while to get the square root of 30.

Intelligent Design specified complexity

George Montañez: Specified complexity, design, and surprise

Digging further into George Montañez’s new paper at BIO-Complexity, a lay-friendly version: Specified complexity allows us to measure how surprising random outcomes are, in reference to some probabilistic model. But there are other ways of measuring surprise. In Shannon’s celebrated information theory (Shannon 1948), improbability alone can be used to measure the surprise of observing Read More…

Darwinism Intelligent Design specified complexity

George Montañez: Using specified complexity to rule out Darwinian explanations

A lay-friendly version of Montanez’s paper at B IO-Complexity translates from the math.

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