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Author
Gary Smith
Date
February 15, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
"poison medicine" problem, 2014 Brazilian election, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, power poses}

Fool’s Gold: Even AI Successes Can Be Failures

_{Large doses of data, math, and computing power do not make a computer intelligent} _{Gary Smith

February 15, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence}

I recently read this enthusiastic claim by a professional data miner: Twitter is a goldmine of data…. [T]erabytes of data, combined together with complex mathematical models and boisterous computing power, can create insights human beings aren’t capable of producing. The value that big data Analytics provides to a business is intangible and surpassing human capabilities each and every day. Anthony Sistilli, “Twitter Data Mining: A Guide to Big Data Analytics Using Python” at Toptal I was struck by how easily he assumes that large doses of data, math, and computing power make computers smarter than humans. He is hardly alone, but he is badly mistaken. Computer algorithms are really, really good at making mathematical calculations and identifying statistical patterns (what Turing winner Judea Pearl calls “just curve Read More ›

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Author
Caitlin Cory
Date
January 27, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Angus Fletcher, Artificial Intelligence, Erik J. Larson, optimization}

AI Should Be Less Perfect, More Human

_{Authors Angus Fletcher and Erik J. Larson point us toward a more sustainable future working alongside artificial intelligence} _{Caitlin Cory

January 27, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence}

Artificial intelligence is fragile. When faced with the ambiguity of the world, it breaks. And when it breaks, our untenable solution is to erase ambiguity. This means erasing our humanness, which in turn breaks us. That’s the problem Angus Fletcher and Erik J. Larson address in their piece published this week in Wired. AI can malfunction at the mildest hint of data slip, so its architects are doing all they can to dampen ambiguity and volatility. And since the world’s primary source of ambiguity and volatility is humans, we have found ourselves aggressively stifled. We’ve been forced into metric assessments at school, standard flow patterns at work, and regularized sets at hospitals, gyms, and social-media hangouts. In the process, we’ve lost Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Berger
Date
January 14, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence}

What Is AI Doing To Me? How AI Influences Our Concept of Reality

_{Reality is far more than what can be quantified by a computer} _{Stephen Berger

January 14, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence}

I have been thinking lately about how artificial intelligence (AI) is affecting me. That is a big topic with many avenues to be explored. I would like to explore just two of them here. The first is how AI influences my concept of reality. The second is how AI is influencing my actions. Both of these dynamics are profound and already evident in our world. In this first of two parts, we will explore how AI influences our concept of reality. AI-driven systems receive data from a variety of sources. Their universe is defined by what their sensors can quantify and deliver to them. As we interact with these AI systems, we are subtly influenced to adopt their view of Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
January 13, 2022

Tagged
AI, AI swarm, Animal Algorithms, Animal Algorithms (book), Artificial Intelligence, Eric Cassell, Ingenious Instincts, Insects, origins, Orphan Genes, Pheromone, Pheromone Path, pheromone trail, Robert J. Marks, social insects, Super organism, Swarm, Swarm intelligence, trail pheromone}

Jaw Dropping Algorithms That Allow Social Behavior to Thrive

_{Robert J. Marks

January 13, 2022

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How do bees know how to build their hives? Insects have a wide variety of fascinating social behaviors. Where do they come from? Robert J. Marks and Eric Cassell, author of Animal Algorithms, discuss the origins of these mysterious instincts and how AI research has learned a great deal from nature. Show Notes Additional Resources

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Author
J.R. Miller
Date
January 13, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Transhumanism

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, Darwin, Eugenics, J.R. Miller, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Saratendu Sethi, transhumanism}

Eugenics, Transhumanism, and Artificial Intelligence

_{If we were to succeed at creating an ethical decision-making AI, whose ethics would it abide by?} _{J.R. Miller

January 13, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Transhumanism}

In his article for the Digital Journal, Saratendu Sethi argues that to build a sustainable global supply chain requires the humanization of AI. This technological revolution, he says, includes “truly autonomous and self-correcting supply chains” that will replace the flawed capital-driven decision making of humans. Sethi defines this utilitarian mission of serving the “greater good” through what he calls a “sustainable, ethical and responsible world that puts equity for all at the center.” His motive of helping everyone while protecting the environment is commendable, yet the larger question remains, whose ethic will drive the logic used by this AI? When resources are limited, how will this AI decide who gets food and who gets medicine? Based on my own study, Sethi’s Read More ›

Diversity And Inclusion. Business Employment Leadership

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Author
Stephen Berger
Date
January 10, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Artificial Intelligence, Centre for Excellence in Universal Design (CEUD), universal design}

Universal Design and Artificial Intelligence

_{Do AI systems serve us all?} _{Stephen Berger

January 10, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence}

An elderly couple I know recently sold their home and became renters. They thought they had sold their house for a good price, but I am not so sure. I am pretty sure they were swindled by a smooth sales pitch from one of those home-buying companies that are buying up so many homes. They had been homeowners, paying off their mortgage and getting the benefit of the rising value of their home. Now, they are renters, helping to pay their landlord’s mortgage and increasing his net worth. All this got me thinking about universal design and artificial intelligence (AI). Universal design is the discipline of designing products and services for as large a part of the population as possible. Read More ›

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Author
Caitlin Cory
Date
January 8, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Social Media

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, Candie Frazier, Casey Newton, Content moderation, Facebook, Google, social media, The Verge, TikTok, YouTube}

Social Media Content Moderator Sues TikTok for PTSD

_{Social media moderators protect users from graphic content, but who protects the moderators?} _{Caitlin Cory

January 8, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Social Media}

A social media content moderator is suing TikTok, a popular video app, for psychological trauma developed from 12-hour shifts moderating endless graphic videos. Candie Frazier works for Telus International, a Canadian contracting firm providing moderation services to social media apps like TikTok. Frazier filed a complaint with the California Central District Court in December, alleging that TikTok and parent company ByteDance do not provide enough support for the psychological wellbeing of their contracted moderators, whose job it is to remove violent, graphic, and otherwise inappropriate content from the platform. TikTok’s popularity exploded in the aftermath of pandemic lockdowns, especially among millennials and Generation Z. As of September, TikTok reported 1 billion users every month. In her complaint, Frazier explains that Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
December 2, 2021

Tagged
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

_{Andrew McDiarmid

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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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
November 18, 2021

Tagged
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Artificial Intelligence, contingencies, domain expertise, exponential expansion of contingencies, full self driving, human contingencies, Justin Bui, pareto effeciency, pareto trade-off, pixels, Robert J. Marks, samuel haug, self driving cars, standardization of the AI, Technology, types of known}

Bad News for Artificial General Intelligence

_{Robert J. Marks

November 18, 2021

1}

The problem with complex systems is that a lot can go wrong. It turns out that the number of potential problems grows exponentially as you add more factors to a system. Justin Bui and Samuel Haug discuss contingencies and artificial general intelligence with Robert J. Marks. Show Notes Additional Resources

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
November 11, 2021

Tagged
AI wins Jeopardy, Alex Trebec, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Artificial Intelligence, artificial neural networks, deep convolutional neural network, full self driving, IBM's Deep Blue, Justin Bui, mind matters, Paul Harvy, Robert J. Marks, Sam Haug, self-driving cars, The Rest of the Story, unexpected contingencies}

When AI Goes Wrong

_{Robert J. Marks

November 11, 2021

1}

AI must do what it is designed to do, but what if it doesn’t? What if AI begins behaving in bizarre and unpredictable ways? The more complex the system, the more that it can go wrong. Robert J. Marks discusses artificial general intelligence (AGI) with Justin Bui and Samuel Haug. Show Notes 00:37 | Introducing Justin Bui and Samuel Haug Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Berger
Date
November 8, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, distributed systems, healthcare, healthcare apps, Risk management, spectrum, use cases, Wireless}

How Does AI Change My Healthcare?

_{And what if my most important problem is NOT medical?} _{Stephen Berger

November 8, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Medicine and Health}

What is AI doing to me? That is a good question to contemplate. I want to focus on healthcare: How is my healthcare impacted by AI? In ways that are both obvious and obtuse, AI is changing healthcare. As it changes healthcare, AI is changing us! All of our lives are increasingly quantified. We have devices to count our steps, monitor our pulse and even track how much water we drink. During my last visit, my dentist recommended that I get an Oral-B iO Electric Toothbrush. He was pretty enthusiastic about it and so I got one. This toothbrush not only has a Bluetooth connection to an app you can download onto your phone, but it uses artificial intelligence! Wow! Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
November 4, 2021

Tagged
AI and Philosophy, AI software, Alchemy, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Artificial Intelligence, deepfake technology, Deepfakes, fast AI, Homunculus, Justin Bui, pseudoscience, Robert J. Marks, Science fiction, Software, transfer learning}

Artificial General Intelligence: The Modern Homunculus

_{Robert J. Marks

November 4, 2021

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A homunculus is a little person created in a test tube. There was a time when some of the most prominent scientists in the world believed they could create miniature life in the lab. But while the search for homunculus has long since ended, there are some who believe they can find a similar kind of life through artificial general Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Michael Egnor
Date
October 28, 2021

Tagged
algorithm, algorithmic specified complexity, Analog computers, anthropic principle, Anthropic Principles, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Artificial Intelligence, causation, Claude Shannon, Correlation, Correlation vs. causation, Creativity, dead man syndrome, design in nature, evolutionary computing, informaiton, information science, Information Theory, Intelligent Design, Jacob Bernoulli, Kolmogorov information, Meaningless correlations, Norbert Wiener, physical information, Randomness, Robert J. Marks, Rolf Landauer, Shannon information, Specified Complexity, survival of the fittest}

Define Information Before You Talk About It: Egnor Interviews Marks

_{Michael Egnor

October 28, 2021

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Has anyone ever given you some useless information? What does it even mean for information to be meaningful? This week, on Mind Matters News, guest host Dr. Michael Egnor interviews our own Robert J. Marks about information, as well as the creative limits of artificial intelligence, and why evolutionary algorithms aren’t the magic bullet they’re often presented to be. Show Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
October 21, 2021

Tagged
2020 countdown, AI, AI and Cancer, AI beats human, AI helping the handicapped, AI smash hits, AI text translations, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (AI), countdown, Dr. Eric Holloway, Eric Holloway, Facebook ai, hacking AI, Jonathan Bartlett, meandering, poker, Poker Game, protein folds, Robert J. Marks, smart cars, smash hits}

The 2020 AI Smash Hits: Countdown by Bradley Center Brain Trust

_{Robert J. Marks

October 21, 2021

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There’s a lot of exciting stuff going on in the world of artificial intelligence, and while it can be hard to pick a favorite, the Bradley Center Brain Trust rounded out 2020 by narrowing it down to their top ten. Join us as we revisit those top ten stories with Robert J. Marks, Jonathan Bartlett, and Eric Holloway. Show Notes Read More ›

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podcast

Author
George Gilder
Date
October 14, 2021

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, bitcoin, China, China (competitiveness in AI), COSM, education, Facebook, Facebook (as near monopoly), Facebook monopoly, George Gilder, Google, human condition, improved education, Monopoly, Peter Thiel, Peter Thiel (at COSM 2021), Robert J. Marks, Social media monopoly}

COSM Speaker Peter Thiel: The Failures and “Self-Hatred” of Big Tech

_{George Gilder

October 14, 2021

1}

Listen to maverick entrepreneur Peter Thiel’s talk from last year’s COSM conference. Thiel discusses his views of artificial intelligence, Big Tech’s monopoly, China, and the future of technology with legendary tech guru George Gilder. You can register now to hear Peter Thiel and George Gilder at this year’s COSM conference in November. Show Notes Additional Resources

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Author
Richard W. Stevens
Date
October 7, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Economics

Tagged
AlphaZero, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Blue, Gaming AI (book), Garry Kasparov, George Gilder, Joshua Sokol, Ludwig von Mises, Tyranny}

Why AI Cannot Successfully Run the Economy

_{Artificial intelligence is insufficient to predict and plan for the vast complexities of an individual human being, let alone an entire country} _{Richard W. Stevens

October 7, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Economics}

Optimists talk about artificial intelligence (AI) as magnificent tools and ultimately a source of world salvation. Pessimists warn that AI can produce the implements of tyranny and ultimately soulless world domination. Many people in both camps take these views without seriously questioning the limits of AI. To challenge the optimists: Can AI run a human society’s economy better than humans? Governments are expanding and taking more power to run everything, and many people accept or even cheer them for doing so. To carry out that mission, such Leviathan governments invariably increase taxes and impose regulations upon economic activity: prices, wages, investments, interest rates, use of private property, transfers of ownership, and permissible or forbidden transactions. Leviathan’s cheerleaders don’t explain how all-powerful governments claiming to run national economies can actually succeed. Read More ›

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Author
Caitlin Cory
Date
October 1, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Events

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, COSM 2021, Gurdeep Pall, Microsoft, Skype for Business, speech recognition software}

Meet Gurdeep Pall, Microsoft Executive and COSM 2021 Speaker

_{Pall has flourished as a developer and a leader in the world of artificial intelligence and speech recognition} _{Caitlin Cory

October 1, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Events}

“I believe the world is ready for autonomous systems,” says Gurdeep Singh Pall, a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft. Pall will be joining the impressive lineup of speakers at COSM 2021 this November. Pall has been with Microsoft since 1990 – a long and fruitful thirty-one years in which he rose from a software design engineer to the Corporate VP for the Information Platform and Experience team. In that time, he has worked on several noteworthy projects, including Windows NT 3.1, Windows XP, Skype for Business (now Teams), and many others. Pall was born in Chandigarh, India. In later adolescence, he considered following in his Brigadier father’s footsteps by joining the Indian army. “There was something inside me that kept Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
September 30, 2021

Tagged
Alan Turing, algorithmic intelligence, Algorithms, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, code-breaking, Colossus computer, Connectome, Data Mining, DeepMind, Ergodicity, front running, Gaming AI, Gaming AI (book), George Gilder, Gregory Chaitin, John von Neumann, Kurt Gödel, Lee Sedol, life after google, mind, Mind Brain, Mind-Brain Distinction, Nematode worm, Neural networks, protein folding, Ray Kurzweil, Robert J. Marks, stock market, Tony Stretton, Turing Machine, zettabyte}

George Gilder: An Economic Genius Talks About Gaming AI

_{Robert J. Marks

September 30, 2021

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George Gilder talks to Robert J. Marks about his book Gaming AI: Why AI Can’t Think but Can Transform Jobs. Show Notes Additional Resources

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Author
Eric Holloway
Date
September 27, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, Eric Holloway, Killer robots, Lovelace test, Rice's theorem, Terminator, Terminator test, Turing Machine, Turing Test}

Move Over Turing and Lovelace – We Need a Terminator Test

_{More research should be spent on a Terminator test to mitigate the threat of an unfriendly, all-powerful artificial intelligence} _{Eric Holloway

September 27, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence}

What we really need is not a Turing test or a Lovelace test, but a Terminator test. Just imagine. If we create an all-powerful artificial intelligence, we cannot assume it will be friendly. We cannot guarantee anything about the AI’s behavior due to something known as Rice’s theorem. Rice’s theorem states that all non-trivial semantic properties of programs are undecidable. Benevolence is certainly a non-trivial semantic property of programs, which means we cannot guarantee benevolent AIs. Therefore, what we really need is a way to distinguish the all-powerful artificial intelligence from human intelligence, so we can protect ourselves from humanized mass murdering robots. Let us think about this in terms of test errors. When we perform a test on some Read More ›