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post

Author
Richard W. Stevens
Date
February 7, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, AI system, Biases, Biden, Calculator, ChatGPT, computer, data, Data Banks, Numbers, Trump}

Utopia’s Brainiac? ChatGPT Gives Biased Views, Not Neutral Truth

_{Look at what happens when you try to get ChatGPT to offer unbiased responses about political figures} _{Richard W. Stevens

February 7, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Do you trust your pocket calculator? Why? Maybe you’re using the calculator app on your phone. Enter: 2 + 2. You get an answer: 4. But you knew that already. Now enter 111 x 111. Do you get 12,321? Is that the correct answer? Work it out with a pencil. That answer is correct. Try 1234 x 5678. My calculator app returns 7,006,652. Correct? I’m not going to check it. I’m going to trust the calculator. And so it goes. The harder the problem, the more we trust the computer. That’s one reason why many people trumpet the powers of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. Those systems can give answers to problems we individuals couldn’t solve in a lifetime. But are the AI “answers” correct? Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
January 19, 2023

Tagged
Andrew Knox, brain, Brain as computer, Brain Upload, Brain uploading to computer, computer, Memory, mind, Mind Uploading, Mind vs. brain, Robert J. Marks, uploading consciousness}

Is The Mind an Illusion?

_{Robert J. Marks

January 19, 2023

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Perhaps you’ve heard of the “mind-body problem,” but what about the relationship between the mind and the brain? Is the mind just an illusion produced by the brain or is it something totally separate? Robert Marks talks with neurologist Andrew Knox on these topics and more in this week’s Mind Matters podcast episode. Additional Resources

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Author
Jeffrey Funk and Gary Smith
Date
January 16, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, AI research, Chatbot failings, ChatGPT, computer, Databases, economics, internet, Large Language Models (LLMs), Robots}

Large Language Models Can Entertain but Are They Useful?

_{Humans who value correct responses will need to fact-check everything LLMs generate} _{Jeffrey Funk and Gary Smith

January 16, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

In 1987 economics Nobel Laureate Robert Solow said that the computer age was everywhere—except in productivity data. A similar thing could be said about AI today: It dominates tech news but does not seem to have boosted productivity a whit. In fact, productivity growth has been declining since Solow’s observation. Productivity increased by an average of 2.7% a year from 1948 to 1986, by less than 2% a year from 1987 to 2022. Labor productivity is the amount of goods and services we produce in a given amount of time—output per hour. More productive workers can build more cars, construct more houses, and educate more children. More productive workers can also enjoy more free time. If workers can do in four Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
November 3, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience, Science

Tagged
Big Data, Big Data Assumption, brain, computer, Featured, Gaming AI (book), Gary Smith, George Gilder, Modeling Assumption, Yuri Danilov}

The Brain Is Not a Computer and Big Data Is Not a Big Answer

_{These claims are mere tales from the AI apocalypse, as George Gilder tells it, in Gaming AI} _{News

November 3, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience, Science}

In Gaming AI, George Gilder (pictured) sets out six assumptions generally shared by those who believe that, in a Singularity sometime soon, we will merge with our machines. Some of these assumptions seem incorrect and they are certainly all discussable. So let’s look at the first two: • “The Modeling Assumption: A computer can deterministically model a brain.” (p. 50) That would be quite difficult because brains don’t function like computers: As neuroscientist Yuri Danilov said last year, “Right now people are saying, each synoptical connection is a microprocessor. So if it’s a microprocessor, you have 1012 neurons, each neuron has 105 synapses, so you have… you can compute how many parallel processing units you have in the brain if Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
September 24, 2020

Tagged
Abstract thought, Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, Algorithm-of-the-Gaps, AlphaGo, Charles Babbage, Claude Shannon, Cognition, computer, Computers, Consciousness, Creativity, David Gelernter, disjunctive syllogism, Eugene Goostman, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Kurt Gödel, Language, Lovelace test, Marcel Proust, Mathematics, Natural Language Generation, Natural Language Processing, non-algorithmic, novels, ontological argument, ontological proof, Ray Kurzweil, Saint Anselm, Selmer Bringsjord, Singularity, Sports, Theorems, Turing Test}

Bingecast: Selmer Bringsjord on the Lovelace Test

_{Robert J. Marks

September 24, 2020

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The Turing test, developed by Alan Turing in 1950, is a test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour indistinguishable from a human. Many think that Turing’s proposal for intelligence, especially creativity, has been proven inadequate. Is the Lovelace test a better alternative? What are the capabilities and limitations of AI? Robert J. Marks and Dr. Selmer Bringsjord discuss Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Michael Egnor
Date
September 10, 2020

Tagged
Arthur Schopenhauer, Bernardo Kastrup, computer, Computers, Consciousness, Death, metaphysics, mind, Near-death experiences, Philosophy, Teleology}

Can Computers Think?

_{Michael Egnor

September 10, 2020

1}

Will computers ever be conscious? What happens to our consciousness after we die? Has science made philosophy irrelevant? Dr. Michael Egnor and Dr. Bernardo Kastrup discuss consciousness, artificial intelligence, and philosophy. Show Notes 00:38 | Introducing Dr. Bernardo Kastrup 01:12 | Can computers think? 03:34 | Intentionality 07:11 | Does the natural world have a person behind it? 10:34 | Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
April 9, 2020

Tagged
Algorithm-of-the-Gaps, Claude Shannon, Cognition, computer, Computers, Consciousness, Creativity, David Gelernter, non-algorithmic, Ray Kurzweil, Selmer Bringsjord}

Can We Upload Ourselves to a Computer and Live Forever?

_{Robert J. Marks

April 9, 2020

1}

There are some who say immortality is available if we can upload our minds to a computer. This presupposes our minds are computable and can be duplicated by a computer. Are our minds computable? Robert J. Marks and Dr. Selmer Bringsjord discuss consciousness, cognition, and artificial intelligence. Show Notes 00:39 | Introducing Selmer Bringsjord, Professor — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
September 20, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience

Tagged
computer, human brain, Robert J. Marks, Yuri Danilov}

Why the Brain Is Not at All like a Computer

_{Seeing the brain as a computer is an easy misconception rather than an informative image, says neuroscientist Yuri Danilov} _{News

September 20, 2019

4

Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience}

As soon as you assume that each neuron is a microprocessor, says Danilov, you assume that there is a programmer. There is no programmer in the brain; there are no algorithms in the brain. However, it is "extremely painful" for many people to let go of the idea.

Is the Human Mind a Computer?

_{As a software engineer, I'd say we need to be clear what the question is before answering it} _{Winston Ewert

July 24, 2019

6

Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

Once we understand clearly what a computer is, we will see why consciousness is not a form of computation.

Brains are not billions of little computers

_{Despite the hype. Also, life forms are not machines and neurons are not neural networks} _{Mind Matters

November 10, 2018

5

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

Life forms exist in a dance with their environment (homeostasis) that requires constant adjustment, an adjustment generated by the inner drive to continue in existence. How does the drive come to be there? The analogy between life forms and machines like computers is not particularly convincing, on close examination. Read More ›

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post

Author
Jonathan Bartlett
Date
October 17, 2018

Categorized
Machine Learning

Tagged
Altair 8800, computer, computer chips, graphics}

AI computer chips made simple

_{The artificial intelligence chips that run your computer are not especially difficult to understand} _{Jonathan Bartlett

October 17, 2018

7

Machine Learning}

Increasingly, companies are integrating“AI chips” into their hardware products. What are these things, what do they do that is so special, and how are they being used? Read More ›