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Robert J. Marks
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December 31, 2018
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1: IBM’s Watson Is NOT Our New Computer Overlord

AI help, not hype: It won at Jeopardy (with specially chosen “softball” questions) but is not the hoped-for aid to cancer specialists
Robert J. Marks
December 31, 2018
Artificial Intelligence
One problem that has dogged Watson has nothing to do with AI or medicine. The journalism around the introduction of projects like Watson is long on the Gee Whiz! An Electronic Brain! It Won at Jeopardy! And it is short on systematic inquiry as to outcomes versus goals. Read More ›
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Jed Macosko
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December 28, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence
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Can Big Data Beat the Humans Who Compile It?

A computer pioneer bets no: Human intelligence augmented by artificial intelligence will always beat artificial intelligence alone. Is he right?
Jed Macosko
December 28, 2018
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence
The bottom line is that Brooks’ Bet and his IA>AI inequality principle is a good reality check in the face of fears and hype about what AI will do in the future. Read More ›
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Robert J. Marks
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December 28, 2018
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4: Making AI Look More Human Makes It More Human-like!

AI help, not hype, with Robert J. Marks: Technicians can do a lot these days with automated lip-syncs and smiles but what’s behind them?
Robert J. Marks
December 28, 2018
Artificial Intelligence, Social Factors
This summer, some were simply agog over “Sophia, the First Robot Citizen” (“unsettling as it is awe-inspiring”) Read More ›
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Robert J. Marks
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December 26, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Social Factors
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5: AI Can Fight Hate Speech!

AI can carry out its programmers’ biases and that’s all
Robert J. Marks
December 26, 2018
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Social Factors
Putting these kinds of decisions in the hands of software programs is not likely to promote vigorous and healthy debate. Read More ›
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Robert J. Marks
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December 26, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
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6: AI Can Even Exploit Loopholes in the Code!

AI adopts a solution in an allowed set, maybe not the one you expected
Robert J. Marks
December 26, 2018
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
One example the programmers offered of this type of gaming the system was a walking digital robot that moved more quickly by somersaulting than by using a normal walking gait. Read More ›
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Robert J. Marks
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December 24, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
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7: Computers can develop creative solutions on their own!

AI help, not hype, with Robert J. Marks: Programmers may be surprised by which solution, from a range they built in, comes out on top
Robert J. Marks
December 24, 2018
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Sometimes the results are unexpected and even surprising. But they follow directly from the program doing exactly what the programmer programmed it to do. It’s all program, no creativity. Read More ›
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Robert J. Marks
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December 22, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence
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8: AI Just Needs a Bigger Truck!

AI help, not hype, with Robert J. Marks: Can we create superintelligent computers just by adding more computing power?
Robert J. Marks
December 22, 2018
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence
Some think computers could greatly exceed human intelligence if only we added more computing power. That reminds me of an old story… Read More ›
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December 18, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind
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The Human Mind from a Computer Science Perspective

The Blyth Institute’s new journal will offer a focus on artificial intelligence and philosophy as well as philosophical questions in mathematics and engineering
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December 18, 2018
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind
Communications is intended as a discussion forum for fresh ideas in a variety of areas, including philosophy of mind as seen from a computer science perspective. Read More ›
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December 4, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Technocracy
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Stephen Hawking and the AI Apocalypse

Can doomsday headlines, chasing fame, stand in for deep knowledge of a subject?
Mind Matters
December 4, 2018
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Technocracy
One thing a celebrity pundit can usually count on is an audience of media professionals who haven’t considered the problems carefully either and don’t want to. It is much easier and more profitable to market Doomsday than Levin’s Law. As always, the fact that laws governing the universe will eventually triumph is true but not news.   Read More ›
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Robert J. Marks on Great Minds with Michael Medved
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 29, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence
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Robert J. Marks Talks Computers with Michael Medved

Computers can magnify what we do, he says, and that's the real threat
Denyse O'Leary
November 29, 2018
Artificial Intelligence
Recently, Robert J. Marks, director of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, sat down with radio host and author Michael Medved to help sort through the confusion about what artificial intelligence can and can’t do, now and in the future. Read More ›
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Brendan Dixon
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November 29, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
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AI Winter Is Coming

Roughly every decade since the late 1960s has experienced a promising wave of AI that later crashed on real-world problems, leading to collapses in research funding.
Brendan Dixon
November 29, 2018
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Nearly all of AI’s recent gains have been realized due to massive increases in data and computing power that enable old algorithms to suddenly become useful. For example, researchers first conceived neural networks—the core idea powering much machine learning and AI’s notable advances—in the late 1950s. The worries of an impending winter arise because we’re approaching the limits of what massive data combined with hordes of computers can do. Read More ›
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Robert J. Marks
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November 27, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience
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Human Consciousness May Not Be Computable

One model of consciousness would mean that conscious computers are a physical impossibility
Robert J. Marks
November 27, 2018
Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience
As long as computers simply get faster and use more memory, there is no reason to worry about a self-aware Skynet. Read More ›
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November 27, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence
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Can the Air Force Create Thinking Planes?

Smart drones? They are working on general artificial intelligence (GAI)
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November 27, 2018
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence
Eric Holloway: The likely way this will turn out is they'll realize human-in-the-loop is unavoidable for any useful system, so it'll spin off into something like the existing field of human computation. Read More ›
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Mind Matters
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November 26, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Social Factors
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Too Big to Fail Safe?

If artificial intelligence makes disastrous decisions from very complex calculations, will we still understand what went wrong?
Mind Matters
November 26, 2018
Artificial Intelligence, Social Factors
A neuroscientist offers an example of the kind of thing that can go wrong, while the AI system is still small and focused enough to be easily understood: Read More ›
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November 26, 2018
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AI Social Media Could Totally Manipulate You

Deep learning specialist: And the scary thing is, the AI needed is not especially advanced
Mind Matters
November 26, 2018
Artificial Intelligence, Social Factors
Readers familiar with The Two Towers will recall that that’s precisely what Worm-Tongue did to Theoden King: The king heard nothing but what was conveyed to him from his would-be overlord by Worm-tongue, until someone separated him, rather forcibly, from his "social medium." Read More ›
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November 14, 2018
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If a Robot Read the News, Would You Notice a Difference?

The Chinese government thinks not. Is this the way of the future?
Mind Matters
November 14, 2018
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Social Factors
The robotic news readers of China serve a quite different purpose from the independent news outlets and commentators of the West; the robots help disseminate controlled information rather than finding and developing information. Read More ›
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Brendan Dixon
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November 12, 2018
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The “superintelligent AI myth”

The problem that even the skeptical Deep Learning researcher left out
Brendan Dixon
November 12, 2018
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Intelligence
I largely agree with what François Chollet said last year as to why there will be no explosion of general artificial intelligence. But when he challenged the fear of an AI-driven “intelligence explosion,” he, perhaps unwittingly, said more than he meant. Read More ›
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Mind Matters
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November 10, 2018
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Brains are not billions of little computers

Despite the hype. Also, life forms are not machines and neurons are not neural networks
Mind Matters
November 10, 2018
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind
Life forms exist in a dance with their environment (homeostasis) that requires constant adjustment, an adjustment generated by the inner drive to continue in existence. How does the drive come to be there? The analogy between life forms and machines like computers is not particularly convincing, on close examination. Read More ›
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Mind Matters
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November 8, 2018
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Software pioneer says general superhuman artificial intelligence is very unlikely

The concept, he argues, shows a lack of understanding of the nature of intelligence
Mind Matters
November 8, 2018
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence
François Chollet, author of Keras, for the Python deep learning language, cites the No Free Lunch theorem as one of the reasons. Read More ›
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November 7, 2018
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Machines just don’t do meaning

And that, says a computer science prof, is a key reason they won't compete with humans
Mind Matters
November 7, 2018
Artificial Intelligence
Human understanding is grounded, as Prof. Mitchell says, in common-sense knowledge about how the world works and why things matter. Researchers have not been able to transfer this understanding to AI but she worries that many teams are moving ahead with projects that require such ability for safety. Read More ›