What is specified complexity? What makes some information more meaningful than other information? How does information theory affect artificial intelligence? Dr. Michael Egnor discusses information theory, artificial intelligence, and mimetic contagion with Dr. Robert J. Marks.

Show Notes

• 00:37 | Mount Rushmore vs. Mount Fuji
• 05:11 | Specified complexity
• 10:38 | How does a statue of Abraham Lincoln differ from Abraham Lincoln himself?
• 13:18 | Achieving goals
• 17:28 | Robots improving themselves
• 19:10 | Bias and concealment in artificial intelligence
• 20:59 | Mimetic contagion
• 24:49 | Dangers of artificial intelligence

Additional Resources

• Robert J. Marks at Discovery.org
• Chapter 7 of: R.J. Marks II, W.A. Dembski, W. Ewert, Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics, (World Scientific, Singapore, 2017).
• Winston Ewert, William A. Dembski and Robert J. Marks II “Algorithmic Specified Complexity in the Game of Life,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, Volume 45, Issue 4, April 2015, pp. 584-594.
• Winston Ewert, William A. Dembski and Robert J. Marks II “On the Improbability of Algorithmically Specified Complexity,” Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE 45th Southeastern Symposium on Systems Theory (SSST), March 11, 2013, pp.68- 70
• Winston Ewert, William A. Dembski, Robert J. Marks II “Measuring meaningful information in images: algorithmic specified complexity,” IET Computer Vision, 2015, Vol. 9, #6, pp. 884894