Robert J. Marks talks with Larry L. Linenschmidt of the Hill Country Institute about nature and limitations of artificial intelligence from a computer science perspective including the misattribution of creativity and understanding to computers.

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

• 03:03 | Introducing Dr. Robert J. Marks II, Distinguished Professor at Baylor University
• 05:25 | The gift of nerdhood
• 06:28 | Nature as a source of creativity
• 07:17 | STEM is not for everyone
• 09:02 | Difficulties and opportunities in a university setting
• 11:21 | About the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence
• 15:50 | How do computers function?
• 17:39 | Algorithms — recipes for computers
• 18:56 | Some non-algorithmic human qualities
• 20:12 | The Church-Turing Thesis and computing capability
• 21:17 | Quantum computing
• 22:55 | What is artificial intelligence?
• 24:54 | Neural networks and their relation to artificial intelligence
• 28:53 | What are things that computers will never be able to do?
• 29:06 | Computers and creativity
• 29:53 | Qualia
• 30:46 | Do computers understand things?
• 34:29 | Computers and ambiguity
• 36:20 | Computers winning Go
• 38:37 | The Algorithm-of-the-Gaps
• 40:09 | Art by artificial intelligence
• 41:17 | A computer is as good as its programmer
• 46:12 | AI and self-learning
• 48:09 | Swarm intelligence and unexpected solutions
• 50:26 | Developing neural networks
• 51:38 | Ethics and the misuse of artificial intelligence

Additional Resources

• Hill Country Institute
• The Church-Turing Thesis
• About Dr. Robert J. Marks II
• The Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence
• Mind Matters News
• About Dignity Coconuts
• About Brian Thomas
• Alan Turing at Encyclopædia Britannica
• “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