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Shot of Corridor in Working Data Center Full of Rack Servers and Supercomputers with Pink Neon Visualization Projection of Data Transmission Through High Speed Internet.

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Author
News
Date
April 7, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Media, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
ai-limits, Ben Medlock, Creativity, David Watson, George Gilder, Map vs. territory, Michael I. Jordan, Superintelligent AI}

AI Researcher: Stop Calling Everything “Artificial Intelligence”

_{It’s not really intelligence, says Berkeley’s Michael Jordan, and we risk misunderstanding what these machines can really do for us} _{News

April 7, 2021

4

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

Computer scientist Michael I. Jordan, a leading AI researcher, says today’s artificial intelligence systems aren’t actually intelligent and people should stop talking about them as if they were: They are showing human-level competence in low-level pattern recognition skills, but at the cognitive level they are merely imitating human intelligence, not engaging deeply and creatively, says Michael I. Jordan, a leading researcher in AI and machine learning. Jordan is a professor in the department of electrical engineering and computer science, and the department of statistics, at the University of California, Berkeley. Katy Pretz, “Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says” at IEEE Spectrum (March 31, 2031) Their principal role, he says, is to “augment human intelligence, via painstaking analysis of large Read More ›

Teamwork and brainstorming concept with businessmen that share an idea with a lamp. Concept of startup

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Author
News
Date
March 30, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Mathematics

Tagged
Alan Turing, Computers (and creativity), Creativity, Creativity (and computers), Creativity (mathematical view), Featured, Gregory Chaitin, Lovelace test, Paradoxes, Robert J. Marks, Roger Penrose, Selmer Bringsjord, Turing Test}

Why Human Creativity Is Not Computable

_{There is a paradox involved with computers and human creativity, something like Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems or the Smallest Uninteresting Number} _{News

March 30, 2021

12

Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Mathematics}

In last week’s podcast, “The Chaitin Interview IV: Knowability and Unknowability,” Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks interviewed mathematician Gregory Chaitin, best known for Chaitin’s Unknowable Number, on a number of things, including whether computers can show creativity. Chaitin has thought a lot about that: https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-127-Gregory-Chaitin.mp3 This portion begins at 21:34 min. A partial transcript, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. Robert J. Marks: We’re talking, just in general, about the unknowable. Roger Penrose recently won a Nobel Prize for his work with Stephen Hawking on black hole theory. He also wrote a book called The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and The Laws of Physics (1989) and he followed it up with The Shadows of the Mind: Read More ›

Omega, the letter of a Greek alphabet. Greek numerals, mathematical eight hundred number concept. Abstract, digital, wireframe, low poly mesh, Raster blue neon 3d illustration. Triangle, line dot

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
March 25, 2021

Tagged
Algorithmic Information Theory, Chaitin's Constant, Christof Koch, computable, Consciousness, Creativity, David Chalmers, Giulio Tononi, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Gregory Chaitin, Halting Probability Omega, halting problem, Jack Schwartz, knowability, Lovelace test, non-computable, Panpsychism, Paul Erdős, Roger Penrose, Selmer Bringsjord, Stephen Hawking, unknowability}

The Chaitin Interview IV: Knowability and Unknowability

_{Robert J. Marks

March 25, 2021

2}

What does it mean for something to be unknowable? Is creativity non-computable? Do all things have a level of consciousness? Jump into today’s podcast, where Robert J. Marks continues his discussion with Gregory Chaitin about mathematical theory and philosophy. Show Notes 00:23 | Introducing Gregory Chaitin 00:40 | What is unknowability? 06:07 | Does non-computable mean unknowable? 09:43 | A Read More ›

hand of scientist holding flask with lab glassware in chemical laboratory background, science laboratory research and development concept

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Author
News
Date
March 24, 2021

Categorized
Business and Finance, Global Technology, Programming

Tagged
China (and South America), Creativity, Gregory Chaitin, IBM (and innovation), Innovation, Innovation (decline), Robert J. Marks, Silicon Valley (decline), South America (and China), Texas (as high tech magnet)}

A Question Every Scientist Dreads: Has Science Passed the Peak?

_{Gregory Chaitin worries about the growth of bureaucracy in science: You have to learn from your failures. If you don’t fail, it means you’re not innovating enough} _{News

March 24, 2021

11

Business and Finance, Global Technology, Programming}

In this week’s podcast, “The Chaitin Interview III: The Changing Landscape for Mathematics,” Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks interviewed mathematician and computer scientist Gregory Chaitin on many things, including whether the great discoveries in science are behind us — not due to lack of creativity or ability on the part of scientists — but to the growing power of corporate and government bureaucracies to stifle research. But then a question arises: Could science, succumbing to the swamp of bureaucracy, be losing that inventive edge? https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-126-Gregory-Chaitin.mp3 This portion begins at 24:56 min. A partial transcript, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. Gregory Chaitin: What did an airplane engineers say once in a speech I heard? He said, “In the Read More ›

SpaceX Concept Spacecraft in orbit of the Earth. SpaceX Elon Musk Mars programm 3d render

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Author
News
Date
March 21, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Programming

Tagged
Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), Computer sim universe, Computers (creativity limits), Creativity, Elon Musk, Featured, Georg Cantor (illness), Gregory Chaitin, Kurt Gödel, Kurt Gödel (illness), Neuralink, Proof checkers (software), Robert J. Marks}

Why Elon Musk and Other Geniuses Can’t Afford To Follow Rules

_{Mathematician Gregory Chaitin explains why Elon Musk is, perhaps unexpectedly, his hero} _{News

March 21, 2021

12

Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Programming}

In last week’s podcast, “The Chaitin Interview III: The Changing Landscape for Mathematics,” Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks interviewed mathematician and computer scientist Gregory Chaitin on many things mathematical, including why great books on math, advancing new theorems, aren’t written much any more. This week, we look at why geniuses like Musk (whose proposed Mars Orbiter is our featured image above) simply can’t just follow the rules, for better or worse: https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-126-Gregory-Chaitin.mp3 This portion begins at 7:57 min. A partial transcript, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. Gregory Chaitin: Look at Elon Musk (pictured). He’s my great hero. He’s a wonderful engineer and he’s a wonderful entrepreneur and he doesn’t follow the rules. Robert J. Marks: He doesn’t, Read More ›

Group of head mannequin or dummy in fashion shop.

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Author
News
Date
December 23, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
AlphaGo, Animatronics, Creativity, Erica (robot), Featured, hype, Muppets, robotics, Sophia the Robot}

#9: Erica the Robot Stars in a Film. But Really, Does She?

_{This is just going to be a fancier Muppets movie, Eric Holloway predicts, with a bit more electronics} _{News

December 23, 2020

7

Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

Our Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks has been interviewing fellow computer nerds (our Brain Trust) Jonathan Bartlett and Eric Holloway about 12 overhyped AI concepts of the year. Lots of stuff happened and it’s the time of year for fun and entertainment! So here’s #9: Erica the Robot, from Japan, is to star in a film (filming begins in 2021): #9 starts at about 16:58 A partial transcript, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. A link to the complete transcript follows the Additional Resources. Robert J. Marks: Okay. We are counting down the Dirty Dozen hyped AI stories of 2020, and we’re at #9. In June 2020 in The Hollywood Reporter, we learned of the robot in the Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
December 4, 2020

Categorized
Information Theory

Tagged
Andrey Kolmogorov, Claude Shannon, Creativity, Featured, Kolmogorov complexity, Lovelace test, Michael Egnor, Norbert Wiener, Robert J. Marks, Rolf Landauer, Selmer Bringsjord, Specified Complexity}

Information Is the Currency of Life. But What IS It?

_{How do we understand information in a universe that resists resolution into one single, simple system?} _{News

December 4, 2020

7

Information Theory}

At first, “What is information?” seems like a question with a simple answer. Stuff we need to know. Then, if we think about it, it dissolves into paradoxes. A storage medium—a backup drive, maybe—that contains vital information weighs exactly the same as one that contains nothing, gibberish, or dangerously outdated information. There is no way we can know without engaging intelligently with the content. That content is measured in bits and bytes, not kilograms and joules—which means that it is hard to relate to other quantities in our universe. In this week’s podcast, “Robert J. Marks on information and AI, Part 1.” neurosurgeon Michael Egnor interviews Walter Bradley Center director and computer engineering prof Robert J. Marks on how we Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
December 3, 2020

Tagged
algorithmic specified complexity, Analog computers, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Artificial Intelligence, causation, Claude Shannon, Correlation, Correlation vs causation, Creativity, design in nature, Information, information science, Information Theory, Jacob Bernoulli, Kolmogorov information, Meaningless correlations, Norbert Wiener, physical information, Robert J. Marks, Rolf Landauer, Shannon information, Specified Complexity}

Robert J. Marks on Information and AI (Part I)

_{Robert J. Marks

December 3, 2020

1}

What is information? How is information created? Will artificial intelligence ever be creative? Dr. Michael Egnor discusses information theory, correlations, and creative artificial intelligence with Dr. Robert J. Marks. Show Notes 00:27 | Introducing Dr. Robert J. Marks 01:14 | What is information? 06:44 | Exact representations of data 08:29 | A system with minimal information 09:27 | Information in Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
October 1, 2020

Tagged
Consciousness, Creativity, functional MRI (fMRI), Geoffrey Simmons, mind, Mind-Brain Distinction, Problem Solving, Problem-solving, Roger Penrose, Satya Nadella, split-brain surgery, thinking}

How Can You Talk to Yourself?

_{Robert J. Marks

October 1, 2020

1}

If your mind is one, how can it talk to itself? What will artificial intelligence be like in the future. Dr. Geoffrey Simmons and Dr. Robert J. Marks discuss the mind, artificial intelligence, and Dr. Simmons’ book Are We Here to Re-Create Ourselves?: The Convergence of Designs. Show Notes 00:26 | Introducing Dr. Geoffrey Simmons 01:07 | Thinking and problem-solving Read More ›

Robot standing holding a pencil on notebook,retro vintage style

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Author
News
Date
September 28, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity

Tagged
Creativity, Featured, Lovelace test, MathGen, Robert J. Marks, Sci-Gen, Selmer Bringsjord, Turing Test, Violent Bear It Away (novel)}

Can AI Write the Great American Novel? Or Compose Sports News?

_{It’s a split decision, say Rensselaer prof Selmer Bringsjord and Baylor computer engineering prof Robert J. Marks} _{News

September 28, 2020

8

Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity}

In a recent podcast, Rensselaer professor Selmer Bringsjord discusses AI and creativity with computer engineering professor and Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks. The difference between writing novels and playing games like Go and chess is that writing novels does not mean winning according to a set of rules. A machine can be programmed with rules and do the calculations faster—much, much faster—than a human. A good novel requires creativity in the face of situations that are only partly definable. If a novel succeeds, many people agree that the writer has captured essential elements of human nature and life circumstances. That’s what makes the great novels so memorable. Sports reporting is somewhere in the middle in that a great Read More ›

The robot writes with a pen and looks at the computer monitor. Artificial Intelligence

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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

3}

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 ›

Neanderthal or Homo Sapiens Family Cooking Animal Meat over Bonfire and then Eating it. Tribe of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers Wearing Animal Skins Eating in a Dark Scary Cave at Night

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 1, 2020

Categorized
Creativity, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Consciousness Explained (book), Creativity, Daniel Dennett, Daniel Dor, Hypothetical thinking, Imagination, Keith Frankish, Language, The Instruction of Imagination (book2015)}

Did the Human Mind Originate in Telling Ourselves Stories?

_{A philosopher and writer tries to account for the jump from animal to human by wholly natural means} _{Denyse O'Leary

September 1, 2020

8

Creativity, Philosophy of Mind}

Philosopher Keith Frankish melds linguist Daniel Dor’s ideas with philosopher Daniel Dennett’s to come up with a revealingly circular theory. Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
August 27, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Creativity, Machine Learning

Tagged
___longform, Alan Turing, Algorithms, Chinese Room, Church–Turing Thesis, Creativity, Dweebs, Featured, George Gilder, Go, Jay Richards, Jeopardy, John Searle, Larry L. Linenschmidt, Lovelace test, Peter Thiel, qualia, Quantum Computing, Robert J. Marks, Satya Nadella, Surprise, Turing Test, Watson}

Six Limitations of Artificial Intelligence As We Know It

_{You’d better hope it doesn’t run your life, as Robert J. Marks explains to Larry Linenschmidt} _{News

August 27, 2020

18

Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Creativity, Machine Learning}

The list is a selection from “Bingecast: Robert J. Marks on the Limitations of Artificial Intelligence,” a discussion between Larry L. Linenschmidt of the Hill Country Institute and Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks. The focus on why we mistakenly attribute understanding and creativity to computers. The interview was originally published by the Hill Country Institute and is reproduced with thanks. https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-097-Robert-Marks.mp3 Here is a partial transcript, listing six limits of AI as we know it: (The Show Notes, Additional Resources, and a link to the full transcript are below.) 1. Computers can do a great deal but, by their nature, they are limited to algorithms. Larry L. Linenschmidt: When I read the term “classical computer,” how does a computer function? Let’s build on Read More ›

close-up view of robot playing chess, selective focus

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks and Larry L. Linenschmidt
Date
August 27, 2020

Tagged
AI Delusion (book), Alan Turing, algorithm, Algorithm-of-the-Gaps, Algorithmic Information Theory, algorithmic intelligence, AlphaGo, Ambiguity, Artificial Intelligence, China, Chinese Room, Computer History, Computer science, Creativity, David Gelernter, Deep Blue, Deep Learning, ethics, Gary Smith, George Gilder, Go (game), human brain, hype, IBM Watson, Jay Richards, Larry L. Linenschmidt, Neural networks, non-algorithmic, Peter Thiel, qualia, Quantum Computing, Reinforcement learning, Robert J. Marks, self-driving cars, STEM fields, Supercomputers, Swarm intelligence}

Bingecast: Robert J. Marks on the Limitations of Artificial Intelligence

_{Robert J. Marks and Larry L. Linenschmidt

August 27, 2020

2}

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 Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor
Date
May 14, 2020

Categorized
Creativity, Medicine and Health, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Candace Basterfield, Creativity, Featured, Nobel Disease, Nobel Prize, Outside the Box Thinking, Philosophy of Science, Richard Feynman, Skeptical Inquirer (magazine)}

Thinking Outside the Box Is Not a Disease

_{Enforced orthodoxy, often described euphemistically as “scientific consensus,” is an impediment to science} _{Michael Egnor

May 14, 2020

4

Creativity, Medicine and Health, Philosophy of Mind}

At the Skeptical Inquirer, we read about the“Nobel Disease,” whereby Nobel Prize-winning scientists ditch critical thinking and embrace unorthodox views. In reality, unorthodoxy helped them win the Prize.

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
May 8, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
___longform, Archimedes, Creativity, Featured, Flash of Genius, Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855), Hal Philipp, Jacques Hadamard, Lovelace test, Nicola Tesla (1856–1943), Roger Penrose, US Patent Law}

Should AI Hold Patents? The Flash-of-Genius Answer

_{To understand why AI cannot independently invent, let’s look at how famous inventors have actually done it} _{Robert J. Marks

May 8, 2020

9

Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Philosophy of Mind}

Like Excel, AI assists programmers in their design work. AI can search through trillions of possibilities, using data from a million sources, to find a successful design. But the structure of the search and the source of the data is the choice of the programmer. A look at how famous inventors developed products that changed the world sheds some light on the process.

High-Ranking Military Man holds a Briefing to a Team of Government Agents and Politicians, Shows Satellite Surveillance Footage.

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
May 4, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Military

Tagged
Art of War (book), Blitzkrieg, Calvin and Hobbes, Creativity, Featured, Frederick the Great, Hannibal, Military strategy, Muhammad Ali, Patrick D. Wall, Reinforcement learning, Sun Tzu, warfare}

Calvin and Hobbes Explain Why AI Will Never Rule the Battlefield

_{The creativity needed for successful command is beyond the capability of AI} _{Robert J. Marks

May 4, 2020

4

Artificial Intelligence, Military}

AI sifts enormous amounts of accumulated data. But successful military strategy often depends on creating a new approach to a problem, one that lies outside the historical data available to the opposing forces. Muhammad Ali and Hannibal were famous for using such strategies.

Retro Robot plays with wooden ABC cubes on floore. 3D rendering. Education scientist robot student

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Author
News
Date
May 1, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Business and Finance, Creativity

Tagged
Creativity, Invention, Inventor, US Patent Office}

Ruling: AIs Can’t Hold Patents

_{The US Patent Office has ruled that only "natural persons" can own patents, not machines} _{News

May 1, 2020

3

Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Business and Finance, Creativity}

An issue left untouched is whether AI can, in principle, be creative in any event. There is no real evidence for that. The big worry, perhaps, is not being replaced by one’s tools but being ruled by them.

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Author
News
Date
April 28, 2020

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Creativity, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
brain, brain hemispheres, Creativity, John Horgan, William Shakespeare}

Is There a Creativity Module in the Brain?

_{Both hemispheres are important for creativity, according to recent research, but the adventure lies beyond} _{News

April 28, 2020

4

Arts & Culture, Creativity, Philosophy of Mind}

What we are really learning is that minute mapping of the brain is not likely to give us a complete explanation of creativity. Let alone a means of control. Answers, when they appear, lie in the immaterial world of the mind.

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
April 16, 2020

Tagged
Abstract thought, Creativity, Language, Marcel Proust, Natural Language Generation, Natural Language Processing, novels, Selmer Bringsjord, Sports, Turing Test}

Will AI Ever Write a Critically Acclaimed Novel?

_{Robert J. Marks

April 16, 2020

2}

AI is starting to write and some of the copy reads quite well. Other writing is garbage. What’s the capability and limitation of writing by AI? Will AI ever write a novel that wins the Nobel Prize for Literature? Robert J. Marks and Dr. Selmer Bringsjord discuss creativity, artificial intelligence, and writing. Show Notes 00:37 | Introducing Selmer Bringsjord, Professor Read More ›