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3D render beautiful woman computer generated photo realistic to to illustrate the uncanny valley effect

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Robert J. Marks
Date
July 12, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Psychology, Robotics

Tagged
Boris Karloff's Frankenstein (1938), Featured, Frankenstein Complex, Non-Computable You (book), Robert J. Marks, Sophia the Robot, Thomas Edison's Frankenstein(1910), Uncanny Valley}

AI: The Shadow of Frankenstein Lurks in the Uncanny Valley

_{The fifth and final excerpt from Non-Computable You (2022), from Chapter 6, focuses on the scarier AI hype} _{Robert J. Marks
July 12, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Psychology, Robotics}

Wrapping AI in an impressive physical package can magnify the perceived impact of new technology. Doing so uses seductive optics. The confusing of AI packaging with AI content was evident in media excitement about a Buddhist robot who delivers messages to the faithful. “The world’s first sutra-chanting android deity, modeled after Kannon the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy, was introduced to the public last week,” the report reads. The robot can “move its eyes, hands, and torso, make human-like gestures during its speech, and brings its hands together in prayer. A camera implanted in the left eye to focus on a subject gives the impression of eye contact.”1 Technologically speaking, nothing special is happening here. The messages from the Buddhist robot Read More ›

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Robert J. Marks
Date
June 27, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Psychology}

Google’s LaMDA Not As Smart As Some Think

_{Lacking in the media coverage of the suspension of the engineer is any definition of the key word, “sentience”} _{Robert J. Marks
June 27, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Psychology}

Google suspended an engineer, Blake Lemoine, for claiming that a Google AI project named LaMDA has become “sentient”. Google asserted that Lemoine had breached company confidentiality. But, in addition, Google disagreed with Lemoine that artificial intelligence at Google had achieved sentience. Eric Holloway has exposed the workings behind the curtain that show that LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) was trained using examples from humans to do exactly what it did. It’s behavior was planned. That’s what AI does: what it is programmed to do. Here’s another angle that peels off more of LaMDA’s glitter. Lacking in the media coverage of the suspension of the engineer is any definition of the key word, “sentience.” This is an example of the seductive semantics commonly used Read More ›

new technologies, a child uses a futuristic processor for augmented reality. high technology and communication concept. TV

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News
Date
June 11, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, Relationships}

Psychologist Promotes “Virtual Children” for the Good of Earth

_{The former technology advisor to the U.K. government thinks that parents may prefer no-strings AI children for $25 a month} _{News
June 11, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, Relationships}

What if you had a child who was simply a virtual reality, who had no existence about from your own wishes? British psychologist Catriona Campbell, whose aim is to secure “a healthy, human-centred relationship with AI,” thinks that’s the way of the future and better for the planet. The vision of the author of AI by design: A Plan for Living with Artificial Intelligence (Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2022, is spelled out at Study Finds: The overpopulation crisis could be solved within 50 years thanks to the evolution of “virtual children,” one of Britain’s leading artificial intelligence experts claims. Computer-generated babies that cost about $25 a month are likely to become commonplace by the early-2070s, according to Catriona Campbell. In addition Read More ›

Teenagers laughing during a group counseling session for youth

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News
Date
May 26, 2022

Categorized
Addiction, Medicine and Health, Psychology

Tagged
Featured, oxycontin, Richard Hurley, Robert J. Marks}

What Anti-Opioid Strategies Could Really Lower the Death Toll?

_{Anesthetist Dr. Richard Hurley discussed with Robert J. Marks the value of cognitive behavior therapy — reframing the problem} _{News
May 26, 2022

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Addiction, Medicine and Health, Psychology}

In a recent podcast, “Exercising Free Won’t in Fentanyl Addiction: Unless You Die First” (May 4, 2022), Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks interviewed anesthesiologist and pain management expert Dr. Richard Hurley on the scourge of opioids and what information strategies might help combat it.Yesterday, they looked at highly addictive opioids like Oxycontin, Percodan and Fentanyl and the many needless deaths that result from their misuse. Today, the focus is on strategies for prevention. 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, 2022), on the need for realism in another area as well — the capabilities of artificial intelligence. Stay tuned. https://mindmatters.ai/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Mind-Matters-News-Episode-185-Richard-Hurley-Episode-1-rev1.mp3 Read More ›

Woman with hygienic mask shopping for supply.Budget buying at a supply store.Emergency to buy list.Shopping for enough food and cleaning products.Preparation for a pandemic quarantine due to covid-19

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News
Date
March 9, 2022

Categorized
Medicine and Health, Psychology

Tagged
Featured, Jay Richards, Niall Ferguson}

Historian Niall Ferguson on What We Can Learn From COVID

_{To start with how can we be pretty sure we are over it? Ferguson offers some evidence} _{News
March 9, 2022

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Medicine and Health, Psychology}

At COSM 2021, Jay Richards interviewed historian Niall Ferguson, author of Doom: The politics of catastrophe (2021), on the lessons we could learn from historic disasters in interpreting the COVID-19 crises. Ferguson spoke at COSM 2021 (November 10, 3:00 pm) on “Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe”: Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters. The lessons of history that this country — indeed the West as a whole — urgently need to learn, if we want to handle the next crisis better, and to avoid the ultimate doom of irreversible decline. Generally, he sees the economic impact of the COVID shutdown as comparable to fighting World Read More ›

Concept of accusation guilty person girl.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 8, 2022

Categorized
Psychology, Social Media

Tagged
Cancel Culture (and science), Frank Herbert, mob psychology, René Girard}

Why Is Cancel Culture Such a Big Part of Our Lives Today?

_{To understand the Twitter mob’s destruction of lives and careers, it’s essential to address the immense power of groupthink} _{Denyse O'Leary
March 8, 2022

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Psychology, Social Media}

Just in time for International Women’s Day, Emma Camp, a female student at the University of Virginia, reports experiencing a wave of hostility when she suggested that non-Indian women could legitimately criticize the practice of suttee, by which a woman burns to death on her husband’s funeral pyre, voluntarily or otherwise. The reaction on Twitter suggests that Cancel Culture is its lifeblood. Meanwhile, virologist Julie Overbaugh, a National Academy of Sciences member who has made many contributions to the study of viruses, has been forced out of her teaching and research leadership positions because she had worn a Michael Jackson costume to a Halloween “King of Pop” party in 2009. Curiously, although one of her cited offences in connection with Read More ›

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News
Date
March 6, 2022

Categorized
Creativity, Psychology

Tagged
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 ›