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Robert J. Marks
Date
February 3, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Religion, Technocracy

Tagged
AI religion, Anthony Levandowski, Apologetics, Digital Immortality, Featured, immortality, Lovelace test, prophecy, Quantum Computing, Ray Kurzweil, religion, Singularity Is Near (book), Way of the Future (church)}

The Idol with Feet of Silicon

_{Religions based on artificial intelligence (AI) cannot transcend the limits of computers} _{Robert J. Marks
February 3, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Religion, Technocracy}

Those proclaiming that exclusive truth lives totally in naturalism are constrained to a sadly narrow view of the world. Some naturalists have put their faith in AI and have founded the AI Church. They may think they are doing something new and cutting edge, but as Solomon said in Ecclesiastes, there is nothing new under the sun (1:9).

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Eric Holloway
Date
January 4, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Technocracy

Tagged
AI Winter, Backpropagation, Brendan Dixon, Data processing inequality, Featured, Ray Kurzweil, Singularity, The Singularity}

Will artificial intelligence design artificial super-intelligence?

_{And then turn us all into super-geniuses, as some AI researchers hope? No, and here's why not} _{Eric Holloway
January 4, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Technocracy}

Because Moore’s law is an exponential law, the numbers multiply rapidly and we could hit the physical limit rather suddenly. Current indications are that Moore’s law’s speed has already slowed or even ceased to be a true description of the IT industry today.

Aerial shot of artists and craters at work

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Robert J. Marks
Date
November 27, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, Ray Kurzweil, Roger Penrose, Satya Nadella, Stuart Hameroff}

Human Consciousness May Not Be Computable

_{One model of consciousness would mean that conscious computers are a physical impossibility} _{Robert J. Marks
November 27, 2018

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Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience}

As long as computers simply get faster and use more memory, there is no reason to worry about a self-aware Skynet.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 21, 2018

Categorized
Social Factors

Tagged
Gnosticism, immortality, Ray Kurzweil, transhumanism}

Can we cheat death by uploading ourselves as virtual AI entities?

_{Transhumanism is a curious blip in a science and technology culture in which it is otherwise axiomatic that humans are merely evolved animals} _{Denyse O'Leary
July 21, 2018

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Social Factors}

It sounds rather like avoiding death by becoming something that isn’t actually alive. Some thoughts to consider before we hit the Enter key… 😉