The Unexpected and the Myth of Creative Computers – Part II
Robert J. Marks talks with Larry L. Linenschmidt of the Hill Country Institute about the misattribution of creativity and understanding to computers. This is Part 2 of 2 parts.
Other Larry L. Linenschmidt podcasts from the Hill Country Institute are available at HillCountryInstitute.org. We appreciate the permission of the Hill Country Institute to rebroadcast this podcast on Mind Matters.
Show Notes
- 02:15 | What are things that computers will never be able to do?
- 02:30 | Computers and creativity
- 03:16 | Qualia
- 03:59 | Do computers understand things?
- 08:03 | Computers and ambiguity
- 09:43 | Computers winning Go
- 12:01 | The Algorithm-of-the-Gaps
- 13:33 | Art by artificial intelligence
- 16:49 | A computer is as good as its programmer
- 19:35 | AI and self-learning
- 21:32 | Swarm intelligence and unexpected solutions
- 23:22 | Developing neural networks
- 25:00 | Ethics and the misuse of artificial intelligence
Additional Resources
- Part 1 of this series: Gee-Whiz Tech and AI Reality – Part I
- Hill Country Institute
- “Qualia” at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- John Searle’s Chinese Room Argument at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Deep Blue at Encyclopædia Britannica
- “How Hard Is Chess?” by David Gelernter at Time
- IBM Watson
- The AI Delusion by Gary Smith
- The Lovelace test
- Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
- “Can machines be more creative than humans?” by Arthur Miller at The Guardian
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel at Amazon
- The Human Advantage by Jay Richards
- About Deep Patient
