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Lightning in the dark
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Robert J. Marks
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May 8, 2020
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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Philosophy of Mind
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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
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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.

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Robert J. Marks
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May 4, 2020
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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
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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.

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Retro Robot plays with wooden ABC cubes on floore. 3D rendering. Education scientist robot student
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May 1, 2020
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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Business and Finance, Creativity
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Ruling: AIs Can’t Hold Patents

The US Patent Office has ruled that only "natural persons" can own patents, not machines
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May 1, 2020
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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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The Creative Brain
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April 28, 2020
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Arts & Culture, Creativity, Philosophy of Mind
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Is There a Creativity Module in the Brain?

Both hemispheres are important for creativity, according to recent research, but the adventure lies beyond
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April 28, 2020
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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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Robert J. Marks
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April 16, 2020
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Will AI Ever Write a Critically Acclaimed Novel?

Robert J. Marks
April 16, 2020
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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 ›

Team of Professional Scientists Work in the Brain Research Laboratory. Neurologists / Neuroscientists Surrounded by Monitors Showing CT, MRI Scans Having Discussions and Working on Personal Computers.
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Robert J. Marks
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April 9, 2020
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Can We Upload Ourselves to a Computer and Live Forever?

Robert J. Marks
April 9, 2020
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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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Robert J. Marks
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April 2, 2020
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The Turing Test is Dead. Long Live The Lovelace Test

Robert J. Marks
April 2, 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? Robert J. Marks and Dr. Selmer Bringsjord discuss the Turing test, the Lovelace test, and machine Read More ›

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Larry L. Linenschmidt and Robert J. Marks
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December 19, 2019
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The Unexpected and the Myth of Creative Computers – Part II

Larry L. Linenschmidt and Robert J. Marks
December 19, 2019
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Robert J. Marks talks with Larry L. Linenschmidt of the Hill Country Institute about the misattribution of creativity and understanding to computers. This is Part 2 of 2 parts. 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 podcast on Mind Matters. Show Read More ›

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August 23, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Philosophy of Mind, Technocracy
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Sorry, AI can’t do our thinking for us

J. C. Derrick asked Robert J. Marks whether AI can outthink people or make humans immortal
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August 23, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Philosophy of Mind, Technocracy
Creativity, Marks argues, can only exist if the programmer places it in the computer program, which means that the program itself is not creative. People have tried "a bunch of different things and nothing seems to work. They can’t get smarter programs that way." Read More ›
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Brendan Dixon
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August 13, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity
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Fan Tries Programming AI Jazz, Gets Lots and Lots of AI…

Jazz is spontaneous, but spontaneous noise is not jazz
Brendan Dixon
August 13, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity

As Gioia says, jazz depends on the “personality of the individual musician.” And the blindspot of AI creativity is: There’s no one home.

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July 26, 2019
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Can We Write Creative Computer Programs?

As Robert J. Marks tells World Radio, people have tried making computers creative but no luck
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July 26, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity
The Bradley Center director pointed out, in a wide-ranging discussion, that programmers cannot write programs that are more creative than they themselves are. Read More ›
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Brendan Dixon
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July 8, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity
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AI Can’t Do Jazz Because Spontaneity Is at Jazz’s Core

AI “artists”—in all the forms presently available — merely replay their programming
Brendan Dixon
July 8, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity

As Ted Gioia makes clear in his discussion of jazz, swirling a bit of randomness into the mix will not help.

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Brendan Dixon
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May 20, 2019
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Could AI Authentically Create Anything?

Brendan Dixon: The first question posed to me as an artist was,“What are you trying to say?”
Brendan Dixon
May 20, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity

Du Sautoy believes that AI will “in the distant future” achieve consciousness. For that, we have no evidence. It is a statement of religious faith akin to that of Anthony Levandowski's AI Church.

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Robert J. Marks
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May 17, 2019
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Applied Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Work
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What One Thing Do AI, Evolution, and Entrepreneurship All Need?

They all need an input of creativity to make things happen.
Robert J. Marks
May 17, 2019
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Applied Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Work

Programs for AI and evolution share the limitation that nothing creative happens without the guidance of a programmer. And a thriving economy based on creative entrepreneurship is one of the things that cannot be automated.

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Brendan Dixon
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May 17, 2019
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Why AI Fails To Actually Create Things

Only one of the traits du Sautoy suggests is an essential part of creativity
Brendan Dixon
May 17, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity

Du Sautoy’s fourth trait—“originality of a truly independent nature”—is a useful part of the definition of creativity. It is, however, the one trait that he admits is missing from AI’s “creative” attempts

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March 22, 2019
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Creativity Does Not Follow Computational Rules

A philosopher muses on why machines are not creative
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March 22, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Philosophy of Mind

He worries about something quite different from the usual robots-are-coming scare: “It is entirely possible that we will come to treat artificially intelligent machines as so vastly superior to us that we will naturally attribute creativity to them. Should that happen, it will not be because machines have outstripped us. It will be because we will have denigrated ourselves.”

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Robert J. Marks
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March 14, 2019
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Creativity, Natural Intelligence, Social Factors
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STEM Education 8: Help Create Creativity

Creativity diminishes with age, in part because we dig ourselves into ruts that limit our field of view.
Robert J. Marks
March 14, 2019
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Creativity, Natural Intelligence, Social Factors

An aging STEM nerd digs more and deeper ruts and creative thinking becomes more and more difficult. For this reason, I remain tolerant of graduate students with new and seemingly wacky ideas.

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January 17, 2019
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Does AI Art Spell the End of the Artist’s Way of Life?

An AI-produced painting sold at auction for $432,500. But is it a trend or just a novelty?
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January 17, 2019
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Arts & Culture, Creativity, Machine Learning, Work

Rather than announce that human artists are now doomed, software engineer Ben Dixon interviewed a number of them and came away with a rather different picture, that “AI-generated art will improve, but artistic creativity will remain a human discipline.”

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Robert J. Marks
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December 26, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Machine Learning
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6: AI Can Even Exploit Loopholes in the Code!

AI adopts a solution in an allowed set, maybe not the one you expected
Robert J. Marks
December 26, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Machine Learning
One example the programmers offered of this type of gaming the system was a walking digital robot that moved more quickly by somersaulting than by using a normal walking gait. Read More ›