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How Studying AI Helped a Prof See Why the Mind is Non-Physical
A computer science professor shows, using logic, how you must be more than mere matter
Intelligence Requires More Than Following Instructions
Post-training improves the accuracy and usefulness of LLMs but does not make them intelligent in any meaningful sense — as the Monty Hall problem shows
AI and the Chinese Room Argument
We still haven't cracked the mystery of human intelligence
Does Passing the Turing Test Guarantee We’ve Created True AI?
A true test of AI will be able to distinguish between AI and human intelligence.
The “Conscious Machine” Is Just Real Enough to Scare People
The ancient Greek hunk Narcissus could tell us about the risks — if he hadn’t been turned into a daffodil…Theologian and philosopher David Bentley Hart turns to an ancient folk tale to explain the danger of coming to believe that artificial intelligence is real human intelligence. Narcissus, as he tells us, was a young Greek hunter who fell in love with his own reflection in still water. He was entranced by the image but frustrated by the fact that it never did anything he didn’t do himself. He pined away and was eventually transformed into a flower — still called narcissus today. His name also found its way into psychology as a term for extreme self-absorption, narcissism. And that’s where Dr. Hart fears that an attraction to AI products as “machine selves” is taking us. While we’ve always been Read More ›
Oxford’s John Lennox Busts the “Computer Takeover” Myth
AI is here to stay, he says, but in addition to doing a great deal of good, it raises vast problems we must addressEarlier this month, we looked at claims that robots are going to scarf up everyone’s jobs. That was a bonus feature in the Science Uprising series. In another bonus interview, “John Lennox on the Transhumanist Claim AI Will Turn Humans into Gods” (October 17, 2022), Oxford mathematician Lennox talks about claims that 1) computers are taking over and that 2) we will merge with them (transhumanism). Lennox is the author of 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity (2020). This is the first of two parts, where he talks mainly about narrow AI but then gets into the topic of artificial general intelligence (AGI). A partial transcript and notes follow: John Lennox: The typical AI system consists of a Read More ›
