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The face of a businessman and a robot opposite each other look into the eyes. Modern technologies, robot versus human, artificial intelligence, neural networks. 3D render, 3D illustration.

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News
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October 3, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Human exceptionalism

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AI Church, Anthony Levandowski, David Krieger, Featured, Non-Computable You (book), Robert J. Marks}

One Thing We Can Know About Computers: They Are Not Creative

_{Computer engineer Robert J. Marks explains that to David Krieger at the Power Hour} _{News
October 3, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Human exceptionalism}

Recently, Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks was a featured guest on David Krieger’s The Power Hour (KCXL in Liberty, Missouri, and KTRW in Spokane, Washington, September 22, 2022). Despite a short-lived religion based on the idea: https://mindmatters.ai/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Mind-Matters-205-Robert-J-Marks.mp3 Robert J. Marks: In fact, there are entire religions which are based on artificial intelligence. One of the most incredible ones is a guy named Anthony Levandowski, who founded an AI church. In the AI church, here’s some examples. We are told that someday we will be able to be uploaded to a computer, and we can be reborn into an eternal life of silicon. And so that’s kind of copying from the Christian church about immortal life. That’s the way Read More ›

Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego,Ushuaia

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Peter Biles
Date
September 17, 2022

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Arts & Culture, Creativity

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Culture, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Rings of Power (Amazon film series 2022-), Story, television}

Amazon’s Rings of Power and Where the Conflict Really Lies

_{If Peter Jackson gave the LOTR cast unnecessary internal conflicts, then the Rings of Power writers have done it on steroids.} _{Peter Biles
September 17, 2022

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Arts & Culture, Creativity}

The third and fourth episodes of Rings of Power have aired as of September 16th. Thousands of reviews have fountained across the internet over the last couple of weeks, some from rankled fans, others from satisfied enthusiasts, and others with both good and bad things to report. The show, as we all anticipated, has not gone without its fair share of controversy and pushback, but for this review, I want to lay those conversations aside and instead focus on some pros and cons of the recent episodes from my own perspective. To begin on a positive note, I enjoyed these last couple of episodes much more than the first two. The storyline seems to be getting somewhere. Galadriel is being Read More ›

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News
Date
September 14, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Education, Ethics

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Dave Tomar}

Study: AI Fails To Catch Cheaters on an Exam

_{In a test of the Proctorio system, students who were told to try to cheat found a variety of ways to fool the system} _{News
September 14, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Education, Ethics}

Is AI the answer to student cheating on tests? Not that you’d know it from a recent study of AI detection system Proctorio at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Proctorio tracks students’ eye movements and body language while taking exams to flag “suspicious” behavior. So, as Vice tells it, 30 computer science student volunteers were told to take a first year exam that that system supervised. Six were told to cheat, five were told to act suspiciously without really cheating, and the rest were told to just write the test: The results confirmed that Proctorio is not good at catching cheaters. The system did not flag any of the cheaters as cheating. Some used virtual machines, a known Read More ›

Big ideas. Illuminated light bulb among the rest of the unlit bulbs.

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News
Date
September 12, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity

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COSM 2022, Featured, Jules Urbach, Midjourney and Théâtre D’opéra Spatial, OTOY}

COSM Speaker Hopes To Put Creativity Within Every Human’s Reach

_{Jules Urbach, a game developer at 18, has large aspirations but he has the advantage of new software that might help} _{News
September 12, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity}

Jules Urbach, founder and CEO of leading cloud graphics company OTOY, wants to use AI to give every single person the agency to create. He is speaking again at COSM 2022 (November 9–11 in Seattle). Go here to get the Early Adopter rate before September 15. Urbach, who started out in computer gaming at 18, is “a pioneer in computer graphics, streaming, and 3D rendering, with more than 25 years of industry experience. His experience has inspired him to try to help many more people be more creative: Jules Urbach dreams of a world in which anyone can be a creator and anything you imagine can be effortlessly brought to life in fantastic visual detail, without any prior visual graphics Read More ›

Robotic Arm Painting with Brush Closeup 3d illustration

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Robert J. Marks
Date
September 8, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity

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Featured, Jason Allen, Théâtre D’opéra Spatial}

When Should AI Art Be Protected by Copyright?

_{Headlines read that AI has recently won an art contest. But what is art?} _{Robert J. Marks
September 8, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity}

Damien Hirst cut a cow and calf each lengthwise into two halves and displayed them in four separate baths of formaldehyde in clear display tanks. The title of the creation, “Mother and Child Divided,” is a pun. The cow and calf were cut in two and were displayed physically separated. “Mother and Child Divided” in two ways. Get it? Hee hee. Is this art? Apparently so. The macabre bifurcated bovine creation won top place in the 1995 Turner Prize art competition. This simple example reveals that, like judging the palatability of raw oysters, ranking the quality of art is highly subjective. Jason Allen entered a piece entitled “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial” and took home the first-place prize at Colorado State Fair’s Read More ›

futuristic workspace with sparkling particles floating out of glowing screen, digital art style, illustration painting

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News
Date
September 6, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity

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Eric Holloway, Featured, Jason Allen, Jay Richards, Midjourney and Théâtre D’opéra Spatial, Théâtre D’opéra Spatial}

AI Wins a Prize at an Art Show. So Are Human Artists Finished?

_{A painting generated by a carefully crafted AI prompt won at Colorado’s State Fair digital art competition. Some artists wonder if they still have a job} _{News
September 6, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity}

This painting, generated by artificial intelligence, “using a carefully crafted prompt,” won first prize at the Colorado State Fair’s fine art competition for digital arts: The award, which includes a $300 cash prize, was won by Jason Allen. While other candidates for the award used software like Photoshop and Illustrator to create original digital art by hand or alter photographs, Allen used an AI called Midjourney which can generate artworks or just about any kind of synthetic image from a mere line of text. The AI-generated artwork, which Allen calls “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial,” depicts a bizarre but intriguing scene from the distant future or some other world in which human figures are in awe as they stare into a huge Read More ›

cozy domestic christmas interior with window, bed, candles and fireplace - neural network generated art, picture produced with ai in 2022

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News
Date
August 15, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity

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Artists and AI art, Midjourney, Text-to-image AI-generated art}

What Can AI Text-to-Image Generators Do for Artists?

_{Developer David Holz discusses his Midjourney generator in terms of the communities that grow up around art generated from words or phrases} _{News
August 15, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity}

In an interview with David Holz, founder of Midjourney, Verge senior reporter James Vincent asks about the new text-to-art AI image generators that are shaking up the illustration market: Generally, the “few dozen” current versions — which rely on combining materials from across the internet — work reasonably well but here are the drawbacks Vincent notes: They’re tricky and expensive to create, requiring access to millions of images used to train the system (it looks for patterns in the pictures and copies them) and a great deal of computational grunt (for which costs vary, but a million-dollar price tag isn’t out of the question). James Vincent, “‘An engine for the imagination’: The rise of AI image generators” at The Verge Read More ›

Cropped image of young beautiful woman working as writer typing on computer laptop with white blank screen while sitting at the wooden working table with sunlight through windows as background.

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News
Date
August 1, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity

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AI writing tools, AI writing tools and creativity, Creativity and AI writing tools}

Four Problems AI Writing Tools Can Create But Can’t Fix

_{Effective communication doesn’t come in a box or a download. It starts with personal joy and suffering} _{News
August 1, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity}

Recently, we look at what AI writing tools can and can’t do. They might speed up writing your speech, term paper, or pitch by overcoming writer’s block. But they can’t replace creativity. Here are some cautions from the pros — four things that can go wrong: 1. Lack of innovation: Just when you need to sound unique, you risk sounding like one of thousands of people whose output was scarfed into the program. Blogger Bhavya J. Shah notes that an AI program will build in keywords that tend to be picked up by search engines. That said, Al writing tools use algorithms to produce their results. They can’t go beyond that window, therefore the X-Factor which makes writing stand out Read More ›

boy standing on the opened book and looking at other books floating in the air, digital art style, illustration painting

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 25, 2022

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Arts & Culture, Business and Finance, Creativity

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AI writing tools, AI writing tools and creativity, Creativity and AI writing tools}

Can a Computer Write Your novel? Well, What Do You Want To Say?

_{These tools are sure to become a staple in the hot and time-sensitive market for boutique formula fiction} _{Denyse O'Leary
July 25, 2022

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Arts & Culture, Business and Finance, Creativity}

Jennifer Lepp was behind schedule with her latest detective novel, Bring Your Beach Owl (2022), featuring a detective witch in central Florida. Through Kindle Direct, under the pen name of Leanne Leeds, Lepp independently publishes what she calls “potato chip books”, making over US$100k annually. Amazon creates “microclimates” for readers so that genre writers can tailor their work precisely to a market, as she does: “paranormal cozy mystery.” But it’s a business where deadlines matter. Readers have many other choices. As Josh Dzieza tells it at The Verge, Lepp begged developers for a beta test of Sudowrite, aimed at fiction writers. It’s one of the programs created from OpenAI’s language generator GPT-3: Authors paste what they’ve written into a soothing Read More ›

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Robert J. Marks
Date
July 20, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Law

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Featured, Formula 409, WD-40}

Should AI Be Granted Patents on the Designs It Helps Develop?

_{That’s a current argument before the US Court of Appeals} _{Robert J. Marks
July 20, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Law}

Artificial intelligence (AI) should no more be given a patent on an invention than my word processor should be granted a copyright on the article I’m writing. Yet the US Appeals Court has recently been told: [AI] should be considered the inventor on patent applications covering a beverage container based on fractal geometry and a light beacon that flashes in a new way. Blake Britten, “Artificial intelligence can be a patent ‘inventor,’ U.S. appeals court told” at Reuters (June 6, 2022) Like bulldozers, electricity, and nuclear power, AI is a tool. Make no mistake, AI is a powerful and potentially dangerous tool. But like my word processor. it ultimately does only what it is instructed to do. Here is a Read More ›

Artificial Intelligence self aware android robots patrolling a destroyed city. 3d rendering

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News
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July 8, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity}

Study: AI Will Make Human Factors More, Not Less, Critical in War

_{Counterintuitive? Not when we factor in the “fog of war” that makes military situations more confusing than, say, conventional business ones} _{News
July 8, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity}

We sometimes hear that artificial intelligence in the military means that AI takes the risks and does the fighting while humans direct from a safe distance. It sounds reassuring but it’s not likely, say Georgia Institute of Technology cybersecurity professor Jon Lindsay and University of Toronto AI professor Avi Goldfarb: Many policy makers assume human soldiers could be replaced with automated systems, ideally making militaries less dependent on human labor and more effective on the battlefield. This is called the substitution theory of AI, but Lindsay and Goldfarb state that AI should not be seen as a substitute, but rather a complement to existing human strategy. “Machines are good at prediction, but they depend on data and judgment, and the Read More ›

Roboter auf Tastatur, Methapher für Chatbot / Socialbot, Algorithmen und künstliche Intelligenz

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News
Date
June 28, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity

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Alan Turing on computer creativity, Chatbots and Turing test, Eugene Goostman (chatbot), Featured, Non-Computable You (book), Robert J. Marks, Selmer Bringsjord, Turing Test (and chatbots)}

Marks: Artificial Intelligence Is No More Creative Than a Pencil

_{You can use a pencil — but the creativity comes from you. With AI, clever programmers can conceal that fact for a while} _{News
June 28, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity}

(Non-Computable You: What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will (Discovery Institute Press, 2022) by Robert J. Marks is available here.) Some have claimed AI is creative. But “creativity” is a fuzzy term. To talk fruitfully about creativity, the term must be defined so that everyone is talking about the same thing and no one is bending the meaning to fit their purpose. In this and subsequent chapters we will explore what creativity is, and in the end it will become clear that, properly defined, AI is no more creative than a pencil. Creativity: Originating Something New Lady Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, was the first computer programmer, writing algorithms for a machine that Read More ›

October walk in the rain, a young woman with a red umbrella in the autumn city park, autumn look

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News
Date
June 21, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Philosophy of Mind

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Featured, Human exceptionalism, Non-Computable You (book), Robert J. Marks}

Computer Prof: You Are Not Computable and Here’s Why Not

_{In a new book, Baylor University’s Robert J. Marks punctures myths about the superhuman AI that some claim will soon replace us} _{News
June 21, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Philosophy of Mind}

In a just-released book, Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks II explains, as a computer engineering professor at Baylor University, why humans are unique and why artificial intelligence cannot replicate us: ”Emotions that make us human will never be duplicated by a machine,” says Marks. “These include compassion, love, empathy, elation, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, pleasure, pride, excitement, embarrassment, regret, jealousy, grief, hope, and faith. Properly defined, creativity, sentience, and understanding are also on the list. These and other non-algorithmic traits are evidence of non-computable you.” Discovery Institute, “Are Future Humans Doomed To Be Replaced By Artificial Intelligence?” at PR NewsWire (June 21, 2022) Non-Computable You: What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will (Discovery Institute Press, 2022) is Read More ›

US drone attack on the convoy of the Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, 3d render. Baghdad airport, Iraq.

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Robert J. Marks
Date
June 14, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Military

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Autonomous drones, Drones vs. pilots, Featured, Military drones, Top Gun: Maverick (film 2022)}

Top Gun Maverick: Thrilling but Outdated by Today’s AI

_{How realistic is the continued use of manned aircraft in light of today’s technology?} _{Robert J. Marks
June 14, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Military}

I just saw Top Gun: Maverick. Everyone I know agrees that the movie is masterfully done and is thrilling entertainment. My emotions were whiplashed throughout the movie and by the end I was exhausted. But how realistic is the continued use of manned aircraft in light of today’s technology? Considering what today’s military drones can do, the story premise of the new Top Gun is technically outdated. The mission could be better executed by today’s drones, without risk of human life. Instead of riding your horse to the restaurant during a lightning storm, drive your Tesla or — better yet — get Uber Eats to deliver. Use the latest technology. The latest technology in drones is impressive. Consider some of Read More ›

Health insurance, tax concept on blue background

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News
Date
June 8, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Medicine and Health

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Featured, Richard Hurley, Robert J. Marks, Robotic surgery}

Algorithms in Medicine: Where They Help … and Where They Don’t

_{Removing creativity, nuance, and insight from medicine may result in cheaper care but not better care} _{News
June 8, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Medicine and Health}

Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks continued his podcast discussion with anesthesiologist Richard Hurley in “Good and bad algorithms in the practice of medicine” (May 19, 2022). An algorithm is “a procedure for solving a mathematical problem (as of finding the greatest common divisor) in a finite number of steps that frequently involves repetition of an operation.” (Merriam–Webster) We most commonly think of algorithms in connection with computers because that is how programmers instruct them. Algorithms, Dr. Marks points out, can either sharpen or derail services, depending on their content. Before we get started: Note: Robert J. Marks, a Distinguished Professor of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Engineering at Baylor University, has a new book, coming out Non-Computable You (June, Read More ›

scoring during a basketball game - ball in hoop

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News
Date
March 29, 2022

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Creativity, Mathematics, Sports

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Featured, Gary Smith, Regression toward the mean}

Luck Matters More Than Skill When You’re at the Top

_{What? Shouldn’t it be the other way around? No, because… Prof. Gary Smith explains} _{News
March 29, 2022

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Creativity, Mathematics, Sports}

With basketball fever at a high pitch… when LA Times sportswriter Jim Alexander talked to Pomona College business prof Gary Smith about what it takes to win, he got a different answer than some might have expected. If you are really good, it takes luck to win, Smith explained. What? Shouldn’t it be the other way around? No, because… “You can take the four best golfers in the world – any sport, but let’s do golf because it’s head-to-head,” Smith said in a phone conversation this week. “And they play a round of golf and see who gets the lowest score, and it’s pretty much random. Nobody’s going to win every single time. One guy might win more than 25 Read More ›

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News
Date
March 10, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity

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Alan Turing, Alonzo Church, Church-Turing THesis, Featured, Gretchen Huizinga, Ray Kurzweil, Robert J. Marks, William Dembski}

Robert J. Marks: Zeroing In on What AI Can and Can’t Do

_{Walter Bradley Center director Marks discusses what’s hot and what’s not in AI with fellow computer maven Gretchen Huizinga} _{News
March 10, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity}

What makes mankind special? And what does it mean to flourish on the frontier of a technological future? In a recent podcast, “What Does It Mean to Be Human in an Age of Artificial Intelligence?”, Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks discusses what artificial intelligence can and can’t do and its ethical implications with veteran podcaster Gretchen Huizinga This interview was originally published by Christian think tank, the Beatrice Institute (March 3, 2022) and is repeated here with their kind permission: https://mindmatters.ai/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/Mind-Matters-Episode-176-Beatrice-Institute-Rebroadcast-rev1.mp3 Here’s a partial transcript of the first segment, with notes and links: Gretchen Huizinga: Well, Bob, you’re not just a senior fellow and director of the Walter Bradley Center, but you’re also a co-founder and were instrumental Read More ›

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News
Date
March 6, 2022

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Creativity, Psychology

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Insight (as a form of thought)}

Study: When Solving Puzzles, Spontaneous Insight Beats Analysis

_{A study out of Belgium compared the results of analytical thinking and flashes of insight, both with and without distractions} _{News
March 6, 2022

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Creativity, Psychology}

CUNY journalism teacher Emily Laber-Warren reports at Scientific American on an interesting psychology study out of Belgium that divided the 105 undergraduate participants into three groups where each member was to solve to solve a group of 70 word puzzles under three different conditions,. The first group just had to solve the puzzle in 25 seconds or less, the second group had to also remember two numbers flashed on a screen, and the third group had to remember four numbers flashed on the screen. Each participant was asked to record whether the puzzle was solved by an Aha! insight or systematically, step by step. Laber-Warren explains: The purpose of making people remember random numbers was to burden their mind with Read More ›

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News
Date
March 3, 2022

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Creativity, Mathematics, Philosophy of Mind

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Carl Friedrich Gauss, G. H. Hardy (1877-1947), Srinivasa Ramanujan}

Do Mathematicians Think Differently From Other People?

_{A math teacher illustrates some ways in which creative ones do but it’s really about imagination, not just getting the figures right} _{News
March 3, 2022

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Creativity, Mathematics, Philosophy of Mind}

Math teacher Ali Kayaspor has thought a lot about how mathematicians have come up with fundamental ideas about the nature of reality and he shares anecdotes that give us a glimpse. But first, the cold shower: Unfortunately, there is no clear way to answer the question of how a mathematician thinks. But we can approach this question as follows; if you watched any chess tournament, the game’s analysis is shared in detail at the end of the match. When you examine the analysis, you will see a breaking point in each game. Similarly, mathematicians also experience a breaking point while working on a problem before finding a solution. Ali Kayaspor, “How Does a Mathematician’s Brain Differ from Other Brains?” at Read More ›

Cyborg head with red eyes, surronded by wires and lights in a futuristic and ciberpunk enviroment

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News
Date
January 21, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity

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Casey Luskin, Featured, ID the Future, Robert J. Marks}

When the Terminator Ran Into Skynet at the Unemployment Office…

_{In an ID the Future podcast, computer engineering prof Robert J. Marks explores with Casey Luskin the limits of algorithms} _{News
January 21, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity}

In a podcast at ID The Future, Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks talked with host Casey Luskin about claims, games, and realities around artificial intelligence: In the course of the fast-paced interview, Marks touches on dystopian AI and the limits of computer algorithms (they can never do anything that is inherently non-computable, Marks argues), and discuss celebrity thinkers and entrepreneurs who’ve weighed in on the promises and perils of AI, such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Stephen Hawking. Marks calls on Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose to second one of Marks’s central arguments. The occasion for the conversation is Marks’s chapter in the recent Harvest House anthology, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith. (2021) Marks Read More ›