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male hand using navigation system on car dashboard

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News
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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

6

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 ›

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
January 7, 2021

Tagged
AI vs pilot dogfight, Autonomous Vehicles, Case for Killer Robots (book), Comma.ai, Daimler, DARPA, Eric Holloway, General Motors, hacking, Jonathan Bartlett, Language, Machine Learning, military technology, Neural networks, self-driving cars, smart cars, text translation, The Case for Killer Robots, translation, Waymo}

AI Smash Hits 2020 Part I

_{Robert J. Marks

January 7, 2021

2}

An ultimate test of a successful technology is whether it has been reduced to practice. Has it made a financial impact on the market? Has it been adopted by the very picky US military? Has it changed lives? We’re going to count down the AI Smash Hits: the top ten AI success stories for 2020. Join Dr. Robert J. Marks as he Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
January 1, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
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

6

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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News
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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

7

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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News
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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

11

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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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
December 31, 2020

Tagged
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Elon Musk, Eric Holloway, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), GPT-3, Jonathan Bartlett, Lovelace test, Neural networks, Neuralink, OpenAI, Sam Altman, self-driving cars, Tesla}

AI Dirty Dozen 2020 Part III

_{Robert J. Marks

December 31, 2020

2}

There are many forces that shape the hyped AI stories we read. Media is everywhere and competition is fierce. Articles with provocative headlines and content are clickbait for the browsing consumer. We’re going to count down the AI Dirty Dozen: the top twelve AI hyped stories for 2020. Join Dr. Robert J. Marks as he discusses some of these stories with Read More ›

Watermelon Pacman eating small red round pieces

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News
Date
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

6

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

7

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 ›

Medical technology diagnostics concept.Medicine doctor and stethoscope working with Human lungs on a digital tabblet and Ui virtual screen for treatment.

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
December 24, 2020

Tagged
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Eric Holloway, GameGAN, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), GPT-3, Jonathan Bartlett, medical research, Medicine, Sleep, Statistics, Texas Sharpshooter Fallacies, Video games}

AI Dirty Dozen 2020 Part II

_{Robert J. Marks

December 24, 2020

2}

Artificial intelligence and future technologies. Mixed media

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News
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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

7

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 ›

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

6

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

6

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 ›

Big data analytics through machine learning, Artificial Intelligence concept background, Using deep learning algorithms for neural network data analysis, Abstract AI 3d illustration

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
December 17, 2020

Tagged
AlphaGo, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Artificial Intelligence, Deep neural networks (DNNs), Ergodicity, Eric Holloway, Films, Gaming AI (book), Jonathan Bartlett, Neural networks, Robots}

AI Dirty Dozen 2020 Part I

_{Robert J. Marks

December 17, 2020

2}

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News
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December 3, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Education, Machine Learning

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bias, Cade Metz, Eric Holloway, George Orwell, GPT-3, OpenAI, Scott Barry Kaufman}

Can a Computer Write Your Paper for You Someday Soon?

_{GPT-3 recently came up with a paragraph that—a pop psychologist agreed—sounded just like him} _{News

December 3, 2020

6

Artificial Intelligence, Education, Machine Learning}

This summer the OpenAI lab, backed by $1 billion in funding from Microsoft, Google, and Facebook, released an updated version of GPT-3, a text generator that produces convincing sentences by analyzing, among other online sources, Wikipedia, countless blog posts, and thousands of digital books. According to a recent story by Cade Metz in the New York Times, one GPT-3 programmer decided to target pop psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman. Could GPT-3 really come up with a paragraph that sounded just like him? Kaufman himself (pictured) was really impressed with this one, on the subject of becoming more creative: I think creative expression is a natural byproduct of growing up in a diverse world. The more diverse the world is, the more Read More ›

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December 3, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Science

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42, cosmology, David Wolpert, Dennis Overbye, Eric Holloway, Physics, Theory of Everything, William Macready}

Can a Powerful Enough Computer Work Out a Theory of Everything?

_{Some physicists hope so even if it would put them out of work. But is it possible?} _{News

December 3, 2020

7

Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Science}

Recently, prominent physicists were asked whether a sufficiently powerful computer could come up with a Theory of Everything, by the sheer power of crunching numbers. As a recent New York Times article by Dennis Overbye shows, physicists were divided and uncertain: “It might be possible, physicists say, but not anytime soon. And there’s no guarantee that we humans will understand the result.” But doubt, in the view of multiverse theorist Max Tegmark, means we are guilty of “carbon chauvinism”—the idea that humans could be smarter than computers. The late Stephen Hawking thought that computers would replace humans and was alarmed by the prospect. According to Overbye, Hawking had been warning that computers would start to replace physicists in particular since Read More ›

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News
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November 30, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

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Adversarial examples, Confidence, Eric Holloway, Jonathan Bartlett, Self-correction, SkyNet, Terminator (films), trust}

Can AI Really Know When It Shouldn’t Be Trusted?

_{Some researchers claim to have taught AI how to recognize its own untrustworthiness. Others say that’s impossible} _{News

November 30, 2020

5

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning}

Recently, we were told that artificial intelligence is now smart enough to know when it can’t be trusted: How might The Terminator have played out if Skynet had decided it probably wasn’t responsible enough to hold the keys to the entire US nuclear arsenal? As it turns out, scientists may just have saved us from such a future AI-led apocalypse, by creating neural networks that know when they’re untrustworthy. David Nield, “Artificial Intelligence Is Now Smart Enough to Know When It Can’t Be Trusted” at ScienceAlert (November 25, 2020) That’s a big claim. Intelligent humans often can’t know when they are untrustworthy. These deep learning neural networks are designed to mimic the human brain by weighing up a multitude of Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
November 19, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Age of Entanglement (book), Digital Time Assumption, Eric Holloway, Featured, Flight 93, Gaming AI (book), George Gilder, Locality Assumption, Louisa Gilder, Singularity, Time}

Do Time and Space Mean the Same Thing to Humans as to Computers?

_{Futurist George Gilder tells us, humans don’t treat physical and chemical forces or clock pulses the way computers do} _{News

November 19, 2020

5

Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

Recently, we have looked at four of the six assumptions that, according to futurist George Gilder in Gaming AI, are generally shared by those who believe that, sometime soon in a Singularity , we will merge with our machines: Four of them are: 1) The brain is a computer and Big Data is a Big Answer (here) and 2) maps are territories and reality follows our rules (here). Now here are the final two: • The Locality Assumption: Actions of human agents reflect only immediate physical forces impinging directly on them. • The Digital Time Assumption: Time is objective and measured by discrete increments. (p. 50) Gilder tells us that the Locality Assumption means that “minds respond to local inputs Read More ›

abstract binary code science computing center

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Author
News
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September 22, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

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Algorithms, Brian J. Woolley, Computers, Darwinian evolution, Eric Holloway, Evolution, Featured, Goodhart's Law, Jonathan Bartlett, Kevin O. Stanley, No Free Lunch theorems, Word ladder game}

Can AI Really Evolve into Superintelligence All by Itself?

_{We can’t just turn a big computer over to evolution and go away and hope for great things} _{News

September 22, 2020

6

Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

At Science earlier this year it was claimed that Darwinian evolution alone can make computers much smarter. As a result, researchers hoped to “discover something really fundamental that will take a long time for humans to figure out”: Artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving—literally. Researchers have created software that borrows concepts from Darwinian evolution, including “survival of the fittest,” to build AI programs that improve generation after generation without human input. The program replicated decades of AI research in a matter of days, and its designers think that one day, it could discover new approaches to AI. Edd Gent, “Artificial intelligence is evolving all by itself” at Science (April 30, 2020) How does that work? The program discovers algorithms using a Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
September 28, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Ethics, Technocracy

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___longform, Brendan Dixon, Chris Stokes, Eric Holloway, Featured, Isaac Asimov, Jonathan Bartlett, Robots, Three Laws of Robotics, Zeroth Law}

The Three Laws of Robotics Have Failed the Robots

_{Almost no one out there thinks that Isaac Asimov's Three Laws could work for truly intelligent AI} _{News

September 28, 2019

7

Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Ethics, Technocracy}

Prolific science and science fiction writer Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) developed the Three Laws of Robotics, in the hope of guarding against potentially dangerous artificial intelligence. Jonathan Bartlett, Brendan Dixon, and Eric Holloway discuss what went wrong. Read More ›

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News
Date
July 17, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence

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AlphaZero, Daniel Huttenlocher, Eric Holloway, Eric Schmidt, Henry Kissinger, Jonathan Bartlett, Longform}

Henry Kissinger on Why We Must Adapt to AI

_{He thinks chessbot AlphaZero is “no longer constrained by the limits of human knowledge.” But is the story much simpler?} _{News

July 17, 2019

7

Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence}

Walter Bradley Center fellows aren’t really in a position to respond to the demands for "metamorphosis" (total transformation); they could and did, however, respond to specific claims made in the article for winning chessbot AlphaZero.