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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}

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…

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post

Author
News

Date
September 23, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Intelligence, Science

Tagged
Algorithms, Bacteria as living computers, Ben Medlock, Computers, James Shapiro, Self-organization, Stephen Hawking}

SwiftKey Co-founder: Computers Can’t Just “Evolve” Intelligence

_{Can vain hopes for AI spring from a wrong understanding of evolution?} _{News

September 23, 2020

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Intelligence, Science}

Ben Medlock asks us to look at self-organization as a principle of life, lacking in computers. Read More ›

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post

Author
Robert J. Marks

Date
May 25, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Science

Tagged
__featured, celebrity, Stephen Hawking}

Advice to Physicists: “Shut Up and Do Physics”

_{Well-known public intellectuals sometimes stray outside their silos of expertise, showing questionable judgment about, for example, AI} _{Robert J. Marks

May 25, 2020

Artificial Intelligence, Science}

Stephen Hawking was a genius in theoretical physics but he did not know much about computers and his fears of an AI takeover were unfounded.

Stephen Hawking and the AI Apocalypse

_{Can doomsday headlines, chasing fame, stand in for deep knowledge of a subject?} _{Mind Matters

December 4, 2018

Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Technocracy}

One thing a celebrity pundit can usually count on is an audience of media professionals who haven’t considered the problems carefully either and don’t want to. It is much easier and more profitable to market Doomsday than Levin’s Law. As always, the fact that laws governing the universe will eventually triumph is true but not news. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
July 12, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence

Tagged
Apocalypticism, Elon Musk, predictions, Rodney Brooks, Stephen Hawking}

AI machines taking over the world?

_{It’s a cool apocalypse but does that make it more likely?} _{Denyse O'Leary

July 12, 2018

Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence}

Doomsday thinking is easily mocked. The character marching hairy and barefoot under his “End Is Near” sign, is a staple of cartoons in middlebrow mags. Yet when media magnets market doomsday scenarios—like the late Stephen Hawking (“worst event in the history of our civilization”) and Elon Musk (“an immortal dictator from which we would never escape”) — it’s a Cool apocalypse.