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Northern woodland scenery, viewed from above, with green pine forest and dark spruce trees on mountain hills.

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Robert J. Marks
Date
December 2, 2024

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Creativity}

Monday Micro Softy 3: The Wolverton Mountain Puzzle

_{Here’s the answer to Dead President’s Club as well — and smart STEM people often DON'T get that one right} _{Robert J. Marks
December 2, 2024

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Arts & Culture, Creativity}

Mind Matters News is pleased to offer a new series, “Monday Micro Softies,” from our director, Robert J. Marks, a series of puzzles that illustrate the ways of thinking needed in the computer industry today. – Eds. Here’s today’s puzzle, in honor of Claude King, followed by the solution to last Monday’s puzzle, The Dead Presidents Club. In 1962, King recorded the song Wolverton Mountain. It’s the story of Claude’s love of Clifton Clowers’ daughter — we’ll call her Chloe — who lives on the top of Wolverton Mountain. (Listen here.) It’s a catchy tune. Here’s a puzzle augmenting the song’s story: Claude starts climbing to the top of Wolverton Mountain at 6 AM. There is only one road, and Read More ›

Robot hand typing on the computer. The concept of artificial intelligence replacing a human in dealing with another human. Ai generative

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 21, 2024

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Creativity, Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
Bill Dembski and ChatGPT4o}

Bill Dembski: When a Chatbot Tried Improving on a Literary Genius

_{If what matters is computer engineering and a supermassive databank, the chatbot should improve on the masters, right?} _{Denyse O'Leary
October 21, 2024

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Arts & Culture, Creativity, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

Information theorist Dembski thinks that the statistical averages that bots depend on mean they will necessarily regress to the mean and result in mediocrity.

Scales of Justice in the dark Court Hall. Law concept of Judiciary, Jurisprudence and Justice. Copy space. Based on Generative AI

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Robert J. Marks
Date
October 9, 2024

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Creativity, Law

Tagged
Jason Allen, Midjourney and copyright, Théâtre D’opéra Spatial}

Jason Allen’s Battle With AI Copyright Law

_{There is no doubt that this commitment warrants a copyright. Allen used Midjourney as a tool and not as the source of his creativity.} _{Robert J. Marks
October 9, 2024

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Arts & Culture, Creativity, Law}

The only solution I can see to the AI copyright problem is to verify that numerous highly detailed prompts were used to create an image.

Smart robotic farmers concept, robot farmers, Agriculture technology, Farm automation.

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News
Date
October 5, 2024

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Philosophy of Mind, Robotics

Tagged
2001: A Space Odyssey, AI and creativity, David (Prometheus 2012), HAL 9000's limitations, Mark Davis, Non-Computable You (Discovery Institute Press 2022), Prometheus (2012), Robert J. Marks, Three Laws of Robotics, Zeroth Law of Robotics}

Computer Prof: Handing Off Risky Operations to AI Would Be Stupid

_{When everything went wrong in Space Odyssey 2001, the cause was faulty programming, not the computer deciding to take over, he says.} _{News
October 5, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Philosophy of Mind, Robotics}

When everything went wrong in Space Odyssey 2001, the cause was faulty programming, not the computer deciding to take over, he says.

Chatbot assistant, Ai Artificial Intelligence

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News
Date
September 26, 2024

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
Featured, Mark Davis, Noam Chomsky, Non-Computable You (Discovery Institute Press 2022), Robert J. Marks, Selmer Bringsjord}

Computer ‘Creativity’ Is Simply Digital Plagiarism

_{One outcome is many lawsuits against generative AI companies whose programs snatch and use copyrighted material} _{News
September 26, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

As radio host Mark Davis put it recently, “ultimately everything AI does is go in search of something that some human being said or wrote sometime.”

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News
Date
August 28, 2024

Categorized
Creativity, Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
Maggie Harrison Dupré, Model collapse}

AI Going MAD? The Model Collapse Problem Gets More Attention Now

_{The problem is that the AI can't generate anything new on its own and the old stuff, endlessly recycled at high speeds, begins to erode} _{News
August 28, 2024

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Creativity, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

If human involvement is minimized, this hard limit will probably come up time and again. Computation is not creativity.

Text written with a vintage typewriter - That's my story

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 11, 2024

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Business and Finance, Creativity

Tagged
Chatbots and copyright litigation, Open AI and copyright litigation, Thomas Edison}

How Do Writers Get Paid in an Age When Chatbots “Write” Things?

_{Are lawsuits against Big Tech really the answer? Much of the territory is uncharted} _{Denyse O'Leary
June 11, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Business and Finance, Creativity}

A few Big Tech players control the chatbot market. Could bargaining with them for something like Public Lending Right resolve the writers’ issues?

hacker cat working job profession illustration generative ai

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 3, 2024

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Business and Finance, Creativity

Tagged
Copyright and generative AI, copyright law, Jonathan Bartlett (on AI and copyright), Kate Crawford, Model collapse, Robert J. Marks, Robert J. Marks on AI and copyright, Stable Diffusion}

Generative AI Is Creating a Copyright Crisis for Artists

_{How does an artist assert copyright when her image was only one of many used to create a new image? How does she make a living if she can’t?} _{Denyse O'Leary
June 3, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Business and Finance, Creativity}

AI companies could be required to record images’ origin and compensate copyright holders. But as Robert J. Marks notes, end users might then have to pay.

Hand touching digital chatbot for provide access to information and data in online network, robot application and global connection, AI, Artificial intelligence, innovation and technology.

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Brendan Dixon
Date
May 4, 2024

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Creativity

Tagged
Large Language Models (creativity issue), Large Language Models (how they work)}

What Chatbots Have Achieved, and What They Haven’t — and Can’t

_{Chatbots (LLMs) succeeded where the older expert systems I used to work on failed but that does not mean that they are creative} _{Brendan Dixon
May 4, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity}

An LLM generating a connection new to us, is not acting creatively. It is throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what we let stick.

Robot hand displays blue digital interface, wearing blue suit and helmet.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 10, 2024

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Creativity and AI writing tools, Sabine Hossenfelder}

How Materialism Handicaps Us in Understanding AI’s Limits

_{Sabine Hossenfelder acknowledges AI’s limits, yet she is convinced that it will become conscious} _{Denyse O'Leary
March 10, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Philosophy of Mind}

Such a position is not something the materialist derives from the evidence; it is imposed by the ideology.

Lightbulb eureka moment with Impactful and inspiring artistic colourful explosion of paint energy

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News
Date
March 4, 2024

Categorized
Creativity, Information Theory

Tagged
Minding the Brain (Discovery Institute Press 2023)}

Programmers: Why Materialism Can’t Explain Human Creativity

_{Eric Holloway and Robert Marks explain why it’s unlikely that the mind that enables human creativity is merely the product of animal evolution} _{News
March 4, 2024

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Creativity, Information Theory}

The total space-time information capacity of the universe falls significantly short of the ability to generate meaningful text of only a few hundred letters.

cute artificial intelligence robot with notebook

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News
Date
December 14, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Psychology

Tagged
Eric Holloway, Robert J. Marks on AI and creativity}

Psychology Researchers: AI Showed Imitation, Not Innovation

_{Testing children and adults against chatbots, the researchers found that the chatbots could match things up but struggled to solve problems on their own} _{News
December 14, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Psychology}

As computer engineering prof Robert J. Marks puts it, AI is no more creative than a pencil. You can use it like a pencil — but the creativity comes from you.

An artificial intelligence robot writer creating generative AI writing

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News
Date
December 7, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity

Tagged
chatbots, Eric Holloway, Hollywood Writers' Strike 2023, Model collapse, Predictive text, Robert J. Marks}

Can AI Write Screenplays for Films You’d Want to See?

_{That issue was the heart of the Hollywood writers’ strike. How was it resolved? Or WAS it resolved?} _{News
December 7, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity}

AI can replace screenwriters only if you are content to see the same-old same-old every day forever. That’s true no matter who owns the technology.

Uroboros, snake coiled in a ring, biting its tail. Engraving sketch scratch board imitation sepia.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 3, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Creativity

Tagged
Bard, Common sense and AI, Darren Orf, Data poisoning, Model collapse, Victor Tangermann}

Model Collapse: AI Chatbots Are Eating Their Own Tails

_{The problem is fundamental to how they operate. Without new human input, their output starts to decay} _{Denyse O'Leary
November 3, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity}

Meanwhile, organizations that laid off writers and editors to save money are finding that they can’t just program creativity or common sense into machines.

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News
Date
January 6, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity

Tagged
chatbots, Corinne Purtill, humor, Jokes, Ken Francis, News, Wokeness}

Can a Chatbot Tell Jokes. Yes, If They Are Stale

_{As chatbots sort through the vast mass of online information for appropriate responses to questions, jokes were bound to come up} _{News
January 6, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity}

Corinne Purtill reported a year ago at Time Magazine on Jon the Robot, a chatbot that was programmed to learn to tell stand-up comedy jokes: An experiment billed as a comedy act, Jon is the brainchild of Naomi Fitter, an assistant professor in the School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University. The tiny android performs when a handler (who must also hold the mic) presses a button, then tells the same jokes in the same order, like a grizzled veteran comic at a down-market Vegas casino. Corinne Purtill, “Artificial Intelligence Can Now Craft Original Jokes—And That’s No Laughing Matter” at Time 2030 (January 4, 2022) But the robot’s act is more human than it might first Read More ›

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News
Date
December 20, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity, Work

Tagged
chatbots, Writers}

Will Chatbots Put Writers out of Business?

_{Some writers are saying yes. Machines can now do mediocre, run of the mill writing} _{News
December 20, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity, Work}

As chatbots become more sophisticated, some writers predict that they will take over run-of-the-mill writing jobs that don’t need or attract much creativity. For example, copyright and plagiarism consultant Jonathan Bailey points out, “AI doesn’t have to be great, just good enough.” In 2017, five years ago, the Washington Post revealed that an AI bot named Heliograph had produced some 850 articles for the paper. However, those stories were for things such as local high school football games and financial reports. They were all short, formulaic and not worth sending a human reporter to. At the time, the stories had generated more than 500,000 clicks. In short, they were ridiculously successful, delivering information that was important and sought after, but Read More ›

Digital chatbot, robot application, conversation assistant, AI Artificial Intelligence concept.

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Robert J. Marks
Date
December 14, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Creativity

Tagged
Featured, Lovelace test, Selmer Bringsjord, semantics, Syntax}

Did the GPT3 Chatbot Pass the Lovelace Creativity Test?

_{The Lovelace Test determines whether the computer can think creatively. We found out…} _{Robert J. Marks
December 14, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity}

The GPT-3 chatbot is awesome AI. Under the hood, GPT3 is a transformer model that uses sequence-to-sequence deep learning that can produce original text given an input sequence. In other words, GPT-3 is trained by using how words are positionally related. The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language is called syntax. Semantics is the branch of linguistics concerned with the meanings of words. GPT-3 trains on the syntax of training data to learn and generate interesting responses to queries. This was the intent of the programmers. GPT-3 is not directly concerned with semantics. Given a tutorial on a topic from the web, for example, GPT-3 does not learn from the tutorial’s teaching, but only Read More ›

Crowd of people on the street. No recognizable faces

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Peter Biles
Date
November 12, 2022

Categorized
Creativity, Economics

Tagged
COSM, superabundance}

Living in a Superabundant Age

_{Marian L. Tupy talks economics, falling birth rates, and human creativity at the COSM conference} _{Peter Biles
November 12, 2022

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Creativity, Economics}

On November 10th, Marian L. Tupy, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, spoke at this year’s COSM technology summit on behalf of his new book Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet. Tupy co-wrote the book with Gale L. Pooley, a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute and associate professor of business management at Brigham Young University-Hawaii. Their book takes a contrarian view of economics, scarcity, and the idea that an excessive human population diminishes the world’s resources. As the book’s title suggests, Tupy and Pooley take the opposite view: the world’s resources increase with population growth. During the COSM session, Tupy said, The caveman had the same natural resources at their Read More ›

Robotic head made of metallic chrome cubes. Machine face surrounded by shiny steel boxes. Liquid metal effect. 3d rendering illustration

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News
Date
November 3, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Creativity

Tagged
Ben Thompson, Featured, Non-Computable You book excerpt, Robert J. Marks, Swarm intelligence (bullies vs. dweebs)}

Marks: AI Looks Very Intelligent — While Following Set Rules

_{In an excerpt from Chapter 2 of Non-Computable You, Larry Nobles reads Robert J. Marks’s account of evolving AI “swarm intelligence” for Dweebs vs. Bullies (transcript also)} _{News
November 3, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity}

In Podcast 211, Larry Nobles reads an excerpt from Chapter Two of Robert J. Marks’s Non-Computable You: What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will (Discovery Institute Press, 2022). The book is now available in audiobook form as well as Kindle format and, of course, paperback. Chapter Two addresses the question, “Can AI be creative?” Pablo Picasso didn’t think so. He is reported to have said, “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” Nobles reads Dr. Marks’s account of how he and a colleague got a “swarm” of little programs (Dweebs) to evolve a solution to a problem that required a good deal of creativity on his and colleague Ben Thompson’s part — but not on the part Read More ›

Giant surveillance camera spies a man. No secrets, no privacy concept. 3D rendering

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News
Date
October 26, 2022

Categorized
Censorship, China, Creativity

Tagged
Bridge Man protests, Xi Jinping}

Protest in China: “Don’t Want” and “Old Hen” Take On New Meaning

_{When former President Hu Jintao was escorted out of the Party Congress a couple of days ago, all reference to the matter disappeared from the official web} _{News
October 26, 2022

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Censorship, China, Creativity}

Recently, we have been following the creative protest methods used in China, in the wake of the Chinese Communist party’s five-year meeting that confirmed Xi Jinping for an unusual third term, while the former president Hu Jintao was escorted out by security. A much harder line on many things, including foreign affairs, is expected to follow. Because China is a very high-tech surveillance state, it is difficult for citizens to use usual online communication methods to discuss, register dissatisfaction with, or express worry over government decisions. The unconventional methods adopted are worth noting. Free Asia Radio reports that two young women were walking down a street in Shanghai, holding a white banner that read “Don’t want, want — Don’t want, Read More ›