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Brendan Dixon
Date
January 28, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Technocracy

Tagged
Deep Learning, Featured, intelligence, Machine Vision}

Artificial Intelligence Is Actually Superficial Intelligence

_{The confusing ways the word “intelligence” is used belie the differences between human intelligence and machine sophistication} _{Brendan Dixon
January 28, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Technocracy}

Words often have more meaning than we hear at first. Consider colors. We associate green with verdant, healthy life and red with prohibition and danger. But these inferences are not embedded in the basic meaning of “red” or “green.” They are cultural accretions we attach to words that enable the richness of language. That, by the way, is one reason why legal documents and technical papers are so difficult to read. The terms used are stripped clean of such baggage, requiring additional words to fill the gaps. The word “intelligent” is like that. Saying that a computer, or a program, is intelligent can lead us down a rabbit hole of extra meaning. An honest researcher merely means the computer has Read More ›

Mission Control Center (MCC), Houston, Texas, during the Gemini 5 flight.

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Robert J. Marks
Date
January 23, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Work

Tagged
employment, Engineering, Featured, Nerds, STEM fields, Technology, Work}

STEM EDUCATION 1. Pursuing Nerd Quality Over Nerd Quantity

_{Reducing math and science to practice is what engineers do. Scientists didn’t put a man on the moon. Engineers did.} _{Robert J. Marks
January 23, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Work}

Overall, computer applications will impact our society and culture as much as electricity did. And we’re living smack in the middle of the transformation.

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News
Date
January 8, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Consciousness, personhood, Salvo}

Consciousness Studies Is a “Bizarre” Field of Science

_{The question of whether machines can be conscious is bound up with attempts to study immaterial things while denying their existence} _{News
January 8, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

The person who is trying to build consciousness into a machine has only a human model so he is trying to build a little human into the machine. He cannot do so but he can try to make himself and others believe that he has done it.

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Eric Holloway
Date
January 4, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Technocracy

Tagged
AI Winter, Backpropagation, Brendan Dixon, Data processing inequality, Featured, Ray Kurzweil, Singularity, The Singularity}

Will artificial intelligence design artificial super-intelligence?

_{And then turn us all into super-geniuses, as some AI researchers hope? No, and here's why not} _{Eric Holloway
January 4, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Technocracy}

Because Moore’s law is an exponential law, the numbers multiply rapidly and we could hit the physical limit rather suddenly. Current indications are that Moore’s law’s speed has already slowed or even ceased to be a true description of the IT industry today.

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Robert J. Marks
Date
December 31, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
2018 AI Hype, AI Delusion (book), Big Data, Cancer, Chamath Palihapitiya, Gary Smith, Health Care, IBM, Jeopardy, Job Displacement, Medicine, Social Factors, Watson}

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

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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.

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Jed Macosko
Date
December 28, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence

Tagged
Big Data}

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

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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.

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Robert J. Marks
Date
December 28, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Social Factors

Tagged
2018 AI Hype, Artificial Intelligence, ethics, Machine Learning, Philosophy of Mind, robotics, Social Factors, Sophia}

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

6

Artificial Intelligence, Social Factors}

This summer, some were simply agog over “Sophia, the First Robot Citizen” (“unsettling as it is awe-inspiring”)

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Robert J. Marks
Date
December 26, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Social Factors

Tagged
2018 AI Hype, censorship, Hate speech, Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics (book), Paul the Apostle, Twitter}

5: AI Can Fight Hate Speech!

_{AI can carry out its programmers’ biases and that’s all} _{Robert J. Marks
December 26, 2018

6

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.

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Robert J. Marks
Date
December 26, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Machine Learning

Tagged
2018 AI Hype, Creativity, Lovelace test, Robot, Robots}

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

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, 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.

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Robert J. Marks
Date
December 24, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Tagged
2018 AI Hype, evolutionary computing, Lovelace test, Selmer Bringsjord, Swarm intelligence}

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

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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.

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Robert J. Marks
Date
December 22, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence

Tagged
2018 AI Hype, François Chollet}

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

4

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…

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Robert J. Marks
Date
December 20, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Technocracy

Tagged
2018 AI Hype, AlphaZero}

10. Is AI Really Becoming “Human-like”?

_{AI help, not hype: Here’s #10 of our Top Ten AI hypes, flops, and spins of 2018} _{Robert J. Marks
December 20, 2018

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Technocracy}

A headline from the UK Telegraph reads “DeepMind’s AlphaZero now showing human-like intuition in historical ‘turning point’ for AI” Don’t worry if you missed it.

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News
Date
December 18, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Eric Holloway, Jonathan Bartlett}

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} _{News
December 18, 2018

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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.

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Mind Matters
Date
December 4, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Technocracy

Tagged
Dystopian, Michael Brooks, Stephen Hawking}

Stephen Hawking and the AI Apocalypse

_{Can doomsday headlines, chasing fame, stand in for deep knowledge of a subject?} _{Mind Matters
December 4, 2018

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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.

Robert J. Marks on Great Minds with Michael Medved

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 29, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Creativity

Tagged
Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Computers, Creativity, Definitions, Featured, Michael Medved, Robert J. Marks}

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

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity}

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.

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Brendan Dixon
Date
November 29, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Tagged
AI Winter, Artificial Intelligence, Watson}

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

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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.

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Robert J. Marks
Date
November 27, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, Ray Kurzweil, Roger Penrose, Satya Nadella, Stuart Hameroff}

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

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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.

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News
Date
November 27, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence

Tagged
Air Force, Animal Minds, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Eric Holloway, intentionality, Teleology}

Can the Air Force Create Thinking Planes?

_{Smart drones? They are working on general artificial intelligence (GAI)} _{News
November 27, 2018

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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.