The GPT-3 program can get through grammatical issues on which others stumble, says Robert J. Marks. It is a simulation because the AI can perform the task but does not “understand” what the concepts mean: The classic test for AI common sense is resolution of Winograd schema. Winograd schema contain vague, ambiguous pronouns. Common sense Read More…
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At Mind Matters News: Can higher dimensions help us understand biblical miracles?
Some Biblical miracles are better understood if we assume four spatial dimensions. Robert J.Marks thinks that the short novel Flatland (1884) helps us understand.
Computer engineers look at design tradeoffs in the human body
Sam Haug: When designing a human being or any incredibly complex system, there are some design trade-offs. You can design a human being to be able to resist the effects of eating hemlock, for example, but the cost for doing that may be large.
At Mind Matters News: How even random numbers show evidence of design
Marks: In fact, I have a student right now who is looking at training a neural network to forecast random numbers. If these random numbers are being generated by a deterministic algorithm, then we should be able to discover what the deterministic algorithm is.
At Mind Matters News: Can wholly random processes produce information?
Marks: We showed that in all cases, that yes, [design] was required, and that there’s mathematics behind it. The mathematics is based on the No Free Lunch Theorem, which was popularized in the IEEE transactions on evolutionary computing in 1997. There, David Wolpert and W. G. Macready showed something which astonished the area of genetic programming and evolutionary programming.
At Mind Matters News: How do we know Lincoln contained more information than his bust?
Egnor: Life forms strive to be more of what they are. Grains of sand don’t. You need more information to strive than to just exist.
At Mind Matters News: Does Mt Rushmore contain no more information than Mt Fuji?
As Jeffrey Shallit claims? That is, does intelligent intervention increase information? Is that intervention detectable by science methods?
At Mind Matters News: Does creativity just mean Bigger Data? Or something else?
The problem with getting AI to understand causation, as opposed to mere correlation, has led to many spurious correlations in data driven papers.
At Mind Matters News: How information becomes everything, including life
Without the information that holds us together, we would just be dust floating around the room.
At Mind Matters News: Why just anything can’t happen given an infinite sum of universes
Marks: It can be shown mathematically that the infinite does not exist in reality, only in our minds. Thus an infinite number of universes cannot exist.
At Mind Matters News: If extraterrestrials didn’t fine tune Earth, maybe there is a God
In the face of a grab bag of ideas like creation by ETs or countless universes (some run by cats), why does the idea of a Creator seem far out?
At Mind Matters News: In an infinity of universes, countless ones are run by cats…
Robert J. Marks points out that, in reality, even 10 to the 1000th power of universes would only permit 3,322 different paths. Infinity is required but unprovable.
At Mind Matters News: Our Universe Survived a Firing Squad and It’s Just an Accident?
Ola Hössjer: According to the Weak Anthropic Principle, we should not be surprised to live in a universe that harbors life. But I should add that, in our paper, “Cosmological Tuning Fine or Coarse?,” we compute or give an upper bound for the probability of a randomly generated universe to have a certain constant of nature, ending up within its life-permitting interval. We take the Weak Anthropic Principle into account — and still we come up with small probabilities for certain constant of natures or certain ratios or constants of nature.
At Mind Matters News: Could advanced aliens have fine-tuned Earth for life?
As Robert Marks, Ola Hössjer, and Daniel Díaz discuss, some prominent atheists/agnostics have chosen to substitute advanced extraterrestrials for God.
At Mind Matters News: Is life from outer space a viable science hypothesis?
Currently, panspermia has been rated as “plausible but not convincing.” Marks, Hössjer, and Diaz discuss the issues.