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December 14, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Global Technology

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Andrew McDiarmid, China (high tech), Erik Larson, Featured, GPT3, Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now (book 2018), You Are Not a Gadget (book 2011)}

Understanding the de Facto Cold War With China

_{High tech is currently a battlefield between freedom and totalitarianism} _{News

December 14, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Global Technology}

In “Hyping Artificial Intelligence Hinders Innovation” (podcast episode 163), Andrew McDiarmid interviewed Erik J. Larson, programmer and author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence (Harvard University Press, 2021) on the wrong path he thinks some analysts are taking in terms of what machines can and can’t do. Plus they discussed Alan Turing’s change of heart. Then they looked at the critical fact that Big Data can easily be the enemy of new ideas. And now, the future …? https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/34ce0d74-aa74-4ad9-9599-e9ddf2be56a7-Mind-Matters-News-Episode-163-Erik-Larson-.mp3 This portion begins at roughly 38:23 min. A partial transcript and notes, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. They began with: How do we determine that we are not simply manipulated by social media? Larson recommended a book by computer scientist Read More ›

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December 10, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence

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Andrew McDiarmid, Big Data (as stifling innovation), Big Data (suppressing new ideas), Copernicus (data problem), Eric J. Larson, Human Brain Project (demise), Innovation (lagging)}

Why Big Data Can Be the Enemy of New Ideas

_{Copernicus could tell us how that works: Masses of documentation entrench the old ideas} _{News

December 10, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence}

In “Hyping Artificial Intelligence Hinders Innovation” (podcast episode 163), Andrew McDiarmid interviewed Erik J. Larson, programmer and author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence (Harvard University Press, 2021) on the wrong path in terms of what machines can and can’t do. Now they look at the critical fact that Big Data can easily be the enemy of new ideas. https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/34ce0d74-aa74-4ad9-9599-e9ddf2be56a7-Mind-Matters-News-Episode-163-Erik-Larson-.mp3 This portion begins at roughly 30:00 min. A partial transcript and notes, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. Andrew McDiarmid: Are there lessons about the ethics of innovation from the past that would be useful to us today? Can you think of anything they learned about innovation in the past that we could really learn from as we’re innovating today? Read More ›

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News
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December 8, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Philosophy of Mind

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Abduction (form of reasoning), Alan Turing (change of heart), Andrew McDiarmid, Erik Larson, Featured, Hollywood (and Big Data), Myth of Artificial Intelligence (book)}

Did Alan Turing’s Change of Heart Set AI on the Wrong Path?

_{Erik Larson, author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, thinks Turing lost track of one really important way minds differ from machines} _{News

December 8, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Philosophy of Mind}

In the earlier part of this episode of “Hyping Artificial Intelligence Hinders Innovation” (podcast episode 163), Andrew McDiarmid interviewed Erik J. Larson, author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence (Harvard University Press, 2021) discussed the big switch in computer science, roughly around 2000, from deductive to inductive logic — because Big Data made inductive logic more productive. Now they look at what machines still can’t do: This portion begins at about 12:39 min. A partial transcript and notes, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. Andrew McDiarmid: I found some of your podcasts on the web and in one of them you say, “I don’t know what a mind is, but I know what a machine is.” So how does that Read More ›

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December 7, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Global Technology, Machine Learning, Philosophy

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AI (year 2000 change), AI winter (c. 2000), Andrew McDiarmid, Deductive logic (and AI), Erik Larson, Featured, Inductive logic (and AI)}

How AI Changed — in a Very Big Way — Around the Year 2000

_{With the advent of huge amounts of data, AI companies switched from using deductive logic to inductive logic} _{News

December 7, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Global Technology, Machine Learning, Philosophy}

In “Hyping Artificial Intelligence Hinders Innovation” (podcast episode 163), Andrew McDiarmid interviewed Erik J. Larson, author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do (2021) (Harvard University Press, 2021) on the way “Machines will RULE!” hype discredits — and distracts attention from — actual progress in AI. Erik Larson has founded two two DARPA-funded artificial intelligence startups. Inthe book he urges us to go back to the drawing board with AI research and development. https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/34ce0d74-aa74-4ad9-9599-e9ddf2be56a7-Mind-Matters-News-Episode-163-Erik-Larson-.mp3 This portion begins at 01:59 min. A partial transcript and notes, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. Andrew McDiarmid: Can you paint a picture first for us of what the AI landscape looks like today and why it’s not Read More ›

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podcast

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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
December 2, 2021

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abductive reasoning, AI, AI in the futture, Alan Turing, Andrew McDiarmid, Artificial Artificial Intelligence (AAI), Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Deductive reasoning, Erik Larson, Human exceptionalism, Hyping AI Hinders Innovation, Inductive reasoning, Inductive reasoning (and science), Jaron Lanier, reasoning and ai, Shoshana Zuboff, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, The Alan Turing Machine, The human brain project, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence (book), the Turing Test}

Hyping Artificial Intelligence Hinders Innovation

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December 2, 2021

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When AI is equated with human intelligence, innovation suffers. While artificial intelligence can help to improve our world, many people believe the myth that it can reach beyond the limits of its programming. Andrew McDiarmid, senior fellow at Discovery Institute, discusses the limitations and dangers of AI with Erik Larson, author of the new book The Myth of Artificial Intelligence. Read More ›

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November 4, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

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Age of Spiritual Machines (book), Andrew McDiarmid, Jay Richards, Ray Kurzweil}

Jay Richards: Kurzweil’s Age of Spiritual Machines Is Fiction, like SkyNet

_{Kurzweil’s vision of computers taking over is “arresting,” Richards admits, but “your mind is running away from you if you think about technology in that way.”} _{News

November 4, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

In a recent podcast of ID the Future at the COSM conference in Seattle, Catholic University business studies prof Jay Richards looks at Ray Kurzweil’s “sunny” version of strong AI (computers are smarter than us and will take over but don’t worry), as per his book, The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999) vs. the pessimistic version (“Skynet” wakes up). In a discussion with Andrew McDiarmid, Richards argues the opposite view, namely that human beings possess something beyond the purely material, something even the most powerful computers will never possess. Podcast here. Excerpts: Jay Richards: (08:45) If you are a materialist who thinks we are purely the result of these blind, material processes, you have something to worry about [with computers Read More ›