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Cybernetic Brain. Electronic chip in form of human brain in electronic cyberspace. Illustration on the subject of 'Artificial Intelligence'.

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January 12, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics

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Autonomous vehicles fooled, Eric Holloway, Featured, Robert J. Marks, Underspecification}

#7 AI Smash Hit: Why AI Can’t Do Your Thinking for You

_{Robert J. Marks: you change a pixel or two in an image and the deep convolutional neural network is totally wrong} _{News

January 12, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics}

Our Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks is back with Jonathan Bartlett and Eric Holloway, assessing their Top Ten real advances (“Smash Hits”) in AI in 2020. Readers may recall that we offered a fun series during the holidays about the oopses and ums and ers in the discipline (typically hyped by uncritical sources). So now we celebrate the real achievements and our nerds think that #7 is honest recognition of the vulnerabilities of machine learning. https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-116-Jonathan-Bartlett-Eric-Holloway.mp3 Our story begins at 19:37. Here’s a partial transcript. (Show Notes and Additional Resources follow, along with a link to the complete transcript.) Robert J. Marks:Hacking AI and exposing vulnerabilities in machine learning? What’s going on here Eric? Eric Holloway: AI suffers Read More ›

Young woman traveling in self driving car

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January 9, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance

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Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Jonathan Bartlett, Level Five self-driving, Level Four self-driving, Levels of autonomy (self-driving cars), Robert J. Marks}

#8 AI 2020 Smash Hit: Big Gains in Practical Self-Driving Cars

_{The people who have been pursuing Level Five self-driving are nowhere but Level Four is working well} _{News

January 9, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance}

Our Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks is back with Jonathan Bartlett and Eric Holloway, explaining their choices for Top Ten real advances (“Smash Hits”) in AI in 2020. Readers may recall that we offered a fun series during the holidays about the oopses and ums and ers in the discipline (typically hyped by uncritical sources). Now it’s time to celebrate the real achievements and our nerds think that #8 is the big advances in practical self-driving cars, that is Level Four cars. The car industry defines five levels of self-driving. Level Five would be Elon Musk’s robotaxis that earn money all on their own while the owners’ sleep (hasn’t happened). Level Four is the practical approach, as Jonathan Read More ›

male hand using navigation system on car dashboard

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January 8, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance

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Comma.ai, Controlling vehciles by thoughts, Eric Holloway, Featured, George Hotz, Robert J. Marks, self-driving cars, smart cars}

#9 AI Success: Smarter Cars for Non-Millionaires

_{If your car is a recent model, an affordable aftermarket kit might transform it into a much smarter car} _{News

January 8, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance}

Our Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks is back with Jonathan Bartlett and Eric Holloway to assess the Top Ten real advances (“Smash Hits”) in AI in 2020. Readers may recall that we offered a fun series during the holidays about the oopses and ums and ers in the discipline (typically hyped by uncritical sources). Now it’s time to celebrate the real achievements. Our nerds think that the assisted driving kit from Comma.ai is one of them—an aftermarket kit that can make your car a smarter car. So here’s #9, featuring Eric Holloway who is a (smart) cheapskate: https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-116-Jonathan-Bartlett-Eric-Holloway.mp3 Our story begins at 09:19. Here’s a partial transcript. (Show Notes and Additional Resources follow, along with a link to Read More ›

translation, business, and technology concept - male translator or businessman with laptop computer thinking at office over greeting words in different foreign languages

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January 7, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

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Featured, Jonathan Bartlett, Machine translation, Robert J. Marks, translation}

#10 AI Success!: Translation Gets Faster and Better

_{Machine translation, properly used, can help us communicate better} _{News

January 7, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

Once again, our Walter Bradley Center director, Robert J. Marks, is back with Jonathan Bartlett and Eric Holloway —this time to to discuss real advances in AI in 2020. Readers may recall that we offered a fun series during the holidays about some of the oopses and ums and ers in the discipline (typically hyped by uncritical sources). Now it’s time to celebrate the real achievements! Let’s start with how machine translation, properly used, can help us communicate better. https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-116-Jonathan-Bartlett-Eric-Holloway.mp3 Our story begins at 03:11. Here’s a partial transcript. (Show Notes and Additional Resources follow, along with a link to the complete transcript.) Robert J. Marks: Okay, let’s get started with the countdown of AI smash hits of the last Read More ›

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January 2, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence

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Elon Musk, Featured, Jonathan Bartlett, Neuralink, Robert J. Marks}

Our #1 AI Hype of 2020!: Elon Musk Will Fix Your Brain!

_{The device has been tried on rats, mice, and pigs.} _{News

January 2, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence}

In #2 of our Top Ten AI Hypes, a guy left his day job to help make AI that thinks like people. Honestly, some of us were stuck for what we could do to top that! Well, our nerds came through for #1!: How about “Elon Musk wants to connect your BRAIN to a computer this year as ‘awesome’ Neuralink mind-chip prepares to launch” (The Sun) ELON Musk has tweeted that his brain-computer chip company Neuralink is working on an “awesome” version of the device. The kooky billionaire believes his brain interface tech will turn humans into a genius super race. Charlotte Edwards, “Elon Musk wants to connect your BRAIN to a computer this year as ‘awesome’ Neuralink mind-chip prepares Read More ›

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January 1, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

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Eric Holloway, Featured, Gödel's Second Incompleteness Theorem, Jonathan Bartlett, Robert J. Marks, trust, Trustworthiness}

#3 AI, We Are Now Told, Knows When It Shouldn’t Be Trusted!

_{Gödel's Second Incompleteness Theorem says that, for any system that can reliably tell you that things are true or false, it cannot tell you that it itself is reliable.} _{News

January 1, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

Okay, so, in #4, we learned that Elon Musk’s utterly self-driving car won’t be on the road any time soon. What about the AI that knows when it shouldn’t be trusted? (As if anyone does!) Our nerds here at the Walter Bradley Center have been discussing the top twelve AI hypes of the year. Our director Robert J. Marks, Eric Holloway and Jonathan Bartlett talk about overhyped AI ideas (from a year in which we saw major advances, along with inevitable hypes). From the AI Dirty Dozen 2020 Part III, here’s #3: AI that knows when it shouldn’t be trusted: https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-115-Jonathan-Bartlett-Eric-Holloway.mp3 Our story begins at 12:57. Here’s a partial transcript. Show Notes and Additional Resources follow, along with a link Read More ›

Tired man sitting in car, wearing in sleeping mask

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January 1, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance

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Autonomous Vehicles, Elon Musk, Eric Holloway, Featured, Jonathan Bartlett, Robert J. Marks, self-driving cars}

#4 Elon Musk: This Time Autopilot Is Going To WORK!

_{Jonathan Bartlett: I have to say, part of me loves Elon Musk and part of me can't stand the guy} _{News

January 1, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance}

Our nerds here at the Walter Bradley Center have been discussing the top twelve AI hypes of the year. Our director Robert J. Marks, Eric Holloway and Jonathan Bartlett talk about overyhyped AI ideas (from a year in which we saw major advances, along with inevitable hypes). From AI Dirty Dozen 2020 Part III, here’s #4: Elon Musk’s fully self-driving software is finally going to work: Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Tuesday that the test version of the company’s Autopilot system will be released in “a month or so.” While he didn’t describe its capabilities, Musk said that once it’s out, “you’ll see what it’s like. It’s amazing. It’s clearly going to work.” Chris Woodyard, “Elon Musk says Tesla’s full Read More ›

Robot with Artificial Intelligence observing human skull in Evolved Cybernetic organism world. 3d rendered image

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January 1, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

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Eric Holloway, Featured, Loopt, Robert J. Marks, Roman Yampolskiy, Sam Altman, Y Combinator}

#2 Computers Can Be As Smart As Humans If We Crowdfund Them!

_{Eric Holloway: Y Combinator's Sam Altman is taking a crazy movement to its logical conclusion} _{News

January 1, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

So, in #3, AI knows when it shouldn’t be trusted? even though no one else does? But now, what about #2?: Sam Altman’s leap of faith!, that an AI will think like people: Earlier this year, founder-investor Sam Altman left his high-profile role as the president of Y Combinator to become the CEO of OpenAI, an AI research outfit that was founded by some of the most prominent people in the tech industry in late 2015. The idea: to ensure that artificial intelligence is “developed in a way that is safe and is beneficial to humanity,” as one of those founders, Elon Musk, said back then to the New York Times. The move is intriguing for many reasons, including that Read More ›

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December 29, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

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chatbots, Featured, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Jonathan Bartlett, Robert J. Marks}

#6 A Conversation Bot Is Cool —If You Really Lower Your Standards

_{A system that supposedly generates conversation—but have you noticed what it says?} _{News

December 29, 2020

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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. From AI Dirty Dozen 2020 Part II. Now here’s #6. A means of generating copy from AI: “GPT-3 Is “Mindblowing” If You Don’t Question It Too Closely So what about the bot that replaces conversation? https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-114-Jonathan-Bartlett-Eric-Holloway.mp3 Our story begins at “09:03. Here’s a partial transcript. Show Notes and Additional Resources follow, along with a link to the complete transcript. Robert J. Marks: GPT-3. Those are four alphanumeric letters that rhyme. GPT-3. And, there was a headline that says there’s a subreddit populated entirely by AI personifications of other subreddits. First Read More ›

Watermelon Pacman eating small red round pieces

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December 28, 2020

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Arts & Culture

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Eric Holloway, Featured, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Neural networks, PACMan, Robert J. Marks}

#7 AI Can Create Great New Video Games All by Itself!

_{In our 2020 "Dirty Dozen" AI myths: It’s actually just remixing previous games} _{News

December 28, 2020

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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. From AI Dirty Dozen 2020 Part II. Now here’s #7. Computers can create their own video games, no imagination involved! Or maybe… wait … don’t invest just yet … https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-114-Jonathan-Bartlett-Eric-Holloway.mp3 “Computers can create their own video games” starts at 05:07. Here’s a partial transcript. (Show Notes and Additional Resources follow, along with a link to the complete transcript.) Robert J. Marks: Okay. Number seven. AI can implement video games just by watching. This was from an article called “Learning to simulate dynamic environments with gameGAN.” Eric Holloway (pictured): Yeah but Read More ›

Female doctor consoling senior woman wearing face mask during home visit

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December 25, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Medicine and Health

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AI in health care, Coffee, Doctors, Eric Holloway, Featured, Gary Smith, hype, Pancreatic cancer, Phantom patterns, Physicians, Robert J. Marks, Texas Sharpshooter Fallacies}

#8 in our AI Hype Countdown: AI Is Better Than Doctors!

_{Sick of paying for health care insurance? Guess what? AI is better ! Or maybe, wait…} _{News

December 25, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Medicine and Health}

Merry Christmas! 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. From AI Dirty Dozen 2020 Part II. Now here’s #8. Sick of paying for health care insurance? Guess what? AI is better! Or maybe, wait… “Is AI really better than physicians at diagnosis?” starts at 01:25 Here’s a partial transcript. Show Notes and Additional Resources follow, along with a link to the complete transcript. Robert J. Marks: We’re told AI is going to replace lawyers and doctors and accountants and all sorts of people. So, let’s look at a case of the physicians. This was a piece on Read More ›

Artificial intelligence and future technologies. Mixed media

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December 22, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence

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Eric Holloway, Featured, hype, John Horgan, Marvin Minsky, Replication, Robert J. Marks}

#10: Big AI Claims Fail To Work Outside Lab

_{A recent article in Scientific American makes clear that grand claims are often not followed up with great achievements} _{News

December 22, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence}

As the year winds down, our Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks interviews fellow computer nerds (our Brain Trust) Jonathan Bartlett and Eric Holloway about 12 overhyped AI concepts of the past year. Hey, as we like to say, great stuff happened in AI this year. But well, lots of “stuff” happened too and it’s time to have some fun! So here’s #10: Replication problems tarnish the image of rapid AI progress: #10 starts at about 12:44 A partial transcript and Show Notes follow, along with Additional Resources and the entire transcript. Robert J. Marks: # 10, Will artificial intelligence ever live up to its hype? The subtitle to the article with that name in this month’s Scientific American Read More ›

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December 21, 2020

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Events

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Case for Killer Robots (book), COSM 2019 videos, COSM 2020 postponed, COVID-19, Donald Wunsch, Featured, For a Greater Purpose (book), Gaming AI (book), George Gilder, Mind Matters News, Mind Matters News podcast, Mystery of Life’s Origin (book), Robert J. Marks, Walter Bradley Center, Walter Breadley, William Dembski}

Walter Bradley Center: Year in Review 2020

_{Despite COVID-19, we had a very productive year} _{News

December 21, 2020

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Mind Matters News is sponsored by the non-profit Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Discovery Institute. Will you help Mind Matters News continue by supporting the work of the Bradley Center with an end-of-year donation? In a world awash with over-hyped claims (both pro and con) about artificial intelligence, the work of the Bradley Center couldn’t be more timely and important. People know at a fundamental level that they are not machines. But faulty thinking can cause people to adopt views that in their heart of hearts they know to be untrue. The Bradley Center seeks to help individuals—and our society at large—to realize that we are not machines, while at the same time helping to put Read More ›

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Robert J. Marks
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December 20, 2020

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Events

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Featured, For as Greater Purpose (book), Robert J. Marks, Walter Bradley, Walter Bradley Center, William Dembski}

We’re the Walter Bradley Center. But Who Is Walter Bradley?

_{A new biography, For a Greater Purpose, discusses Bradley’s life and legacy} _{Robert J. Marks

December 20, 2020

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Events}

Mind Matters News is published by the Walter Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence. And a natural question is, who is this guy, Walter Bradley? Find out in a new biography authored by design theorist William Dembski and myself, For a Greater Purpose. The Foreword is written by the extraordinary philosopher J. P. Moreland. From the book, here’s what others are saying about Walter Bradley: ● “Walter Bradley is one of the most extraordinary men I have ever known. I am in awe of him.” —William Lane Craig, PhD, DTh, ReasonableFaith.org ● “One of the great blessings God has granted me in my life is the opportunity to have co-ministered with [Walter Bradley] among faculty and students on university Read More ›

Retro old beige fridge in loft style wooden kitchen

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December 18, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Technocracy

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Eric Holloway, hype, Robert J. Marks, TensorFlow, Transparency}

#11: A Lot of AI Is As Transparent As Your Fridge

_{A great deal of high tech today is owned by corporations} _{News

December 18, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Technocracy}

As the year draws to a close, our Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks interviews fellow computer nerds, members of our Brain Trust, Jonathan Bartlett and Eric Holloway on their picks for over hyped AI of the year. Hey, great stuff happened in AI this year. But well, lots of “stuff” happened too. And it’s time to have some fun! So here’s #11! Corporate types insist that they believe in transparency. But a lot of AI is as transparent as your fridge. Our team has the story: #11 starts at about 9:08 A partial transcript and Show Notes follow. A recent article in top science journal Nature pointed out that AI developments that matter today are often not transparent. Read More ›

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December 17, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence

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Eric Holloway, Featured, hype, Jonathan Bartlett, Robert J. Marks, Top Ten AI hypes 2020, training data}

#12! AI Is Going To Solve All Our Problems Soon!

_{In our countdown for the Top Twelve AI Hypes of 2020} _{News

December 17, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence}

First, before we get started: The AI industry has been making real progress. But with real progress comes real hype. That figures. We spent all year covering the real progress. Now that we are all kicking up our feet, we are going to send up some of the hype. We used to only have 10 top hypes but now we have 12. If progress continues at this pace, we might end up with 59 by 2050… Anyway, our Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks interviewed fellow computer nerds, members of our Brain Trust, Jonathan Bartlett and Eric Holloway on their picks last Saturday. And here’s #12! The article itself is actually an admission rather than a hype but let’s Read More ›

Bottom view close-up of four white surveillance cameras

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Jonathan Bartlett
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December 14, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Economics, Ethics

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Algorithms, bias, Coded Bias (film), Featured, George Montañez, Robert J. Marks}

How Toxic Bias Infiltrates Computer Code

_{A look at the dark underbelly of modern algorithms} _{Jonathan Bartlett

December 14, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Economics, Ethics}

The newly released documentary Coded Bias from Shalini Kantayya takes the viewer on a tour of the way modern algorithms can undermine justice and society and are actively subverting justice at the present moment. Coded Bias highlights many under-discussed issues regarding data and its usage by governments and corporations. While its prescriptions for government usage of data are well considered, the issue of corporate use of data involves many additional issues that the film skirts entirely. As the film points out, we are presented these algorithms as if they were a form of intelligence. But they are actually just math—and this math can be used to, intentionally or unintentionally, encode biases. In fact, as Bradley Center fellows Robert J. Marks Read More ›

Man looking at business plan at whiteboard

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December 12, 2020

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Information Theory, Science

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Michael Egnor, Robert J. Marks, Specified Complexity}

Complexity Is Not Always a Bad Thing

_{It allows us to have an intellectual life} _{News

December 12, 2020

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Information Theory, Science}

In a recent podcast, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and engineering prof Robert J. Marks discussed the difference between a bag of jigsaw puzzle pieces and a text message like “The city will get your car towed if you do not move it within the next 8 minutes”: Got your attention? That’s precisely what information does. It gets your attention. But what is information? How did those characters in a text message become important to you? Weren’t they just a string of letters and numbers? What, exactly, changed? https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-112-Robert-Marks.mp3 A partial transcript follows. The Show Notes and a full transcript are available below. Robert J. Marks: In terms of meaningful information, I think it’s obvious. Michael, they used to say that it Read More ›

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December 10, 2020

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Programming, Science

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Adiabatic Quantum Computing, energy, Energy efficiency, Enrique Blair, Featured, Quantum communication, Quantum Entanglement, Quantum Mechanics, Robert J. Marks}

Could Slowing Quantum Processes Lead To More Useful Computing?

_{“Adiabatic” quantum computing slows down the process, in the hope of achieving more reliable quantum positions} _{News

December 10, 2020

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Programming, Science}

In a recent podcast, “Enrique Blair on quantum computing,” Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks talks with fellow computer engineer Enrique Blair about why quantum mechanics is so strange but important to our future. They discussed the prospects of slowing down quantum computing to make it more useful (adiabatic computing). https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-110-Enrique-Blair.mp3 The discussion of quantum communication begins at approximately 58:47. The Show Notes and transcript follow. Enrique Blair (pictured): I guess the challenge with entangling massive numbers of quantum systems is that entanglement becomes much more fragile. In quantum communication, you just need pairs of photons to be entangled. One with another, that’s it. Whereas with quantum computing, you need many, many systems to be entangled, and that’s just Read More ›

gray rock formation under white clouds during daytime

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Robert J. Marks
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December 10, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Information Theory, Jeffrey Shallit, Kolmogorov complexity, Kolmogorov information, mimetic contagion, Robert J. Marks, Shannon information, Specified Complexity}

Robert J. Marks on Specified Complexity and Meaningful Information (Part II)

_{Robert J. Marks

December 10, 2020

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What is specified complexity? What makes some information more meaningful than other information? How does information theory affect artificial intelligence? Dr. Michael Egnor discusses information theory, artificial intelligence, and mimetic contagion with Dr. Robert J. Marks. Show Notes Additional Resources