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April 7, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Media, Philosophy of Mind

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ai-limits, Ben Medlock, Creativity, David Watson, George Gilder, Map vs. territory, Michael I. Jordan, Superintelligent AI}

AI Researcher: Stop Calling Everything “Artificial Intelligence”

_{It’s not really intelligence, says Berkeley’s Michael Jordan, and we risk misunderstanding what these machines can really do for us} _{News

April 7, 2021

4

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Media, Philosophy of Mind}

Computer scientist Michael I. Jordan, a leading AI researcher, says today’s artificial intelligence systems aren’t actually intelligent and people should stop talking about them as if they were: They are showing human-level competence in low-level pattern recognition skills, but at the cognitive level they are merely imitating human intelligence, not engaging deeply and creatively, says Michael I. Jordan, a leading researcher in AI and machine learning. Jordan is a professor in the department of electrical engineering and computer science, and the department of statistics, at the University of California, Berkeley. Katy Pretz, “Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says” at IEEE Spectrum (March 31, 2031) Their principal role, he says, is to “augment human intelligence, via painstaking analysis of large Read More ›

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April 6, 2021

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Mathematics, Philosophy

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Automacoin, bitcoin, Featured, G. H. Hardy (1877-1947), George Gilder, Gregory Chaitin, Hector McNeil, Innovation, Marvin Minsky, Omega number, Philosophy (as practical), Robert J. Marks, Srinivasa Ramanujan}

Why Impractical Things Like Philosophy Are Actually Quite Useful

_{Chaitin argues that the human spirit is capable of doing both practical things and impractical things which may have practical consequences later} _{News

April 6, 2021

13

Mathematics, Philosophy}

In last week’s podcast,, “The Chaitin Interview V: Chaitin’s Number,” Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks continued his conversation with mathematician Gregory Chaitin, best known for Chaitin’s unknowable number. Last time, they looked at how Chaitin’s unknowable number relates to computer pioneer Alan Turing’s vexing halting problem in computer science. This time, they look at the way pure mathematics has a way of being highly practical: It creates a basis for new understanding, leading to technical breakthroughs: This portion begins at 09:50 min. A partial transcript, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. Gregory Chaitin: There are always going to be a few of us who like to do practical things. That’s part of my personality too, but there’s also, Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
April 1, 2021

Tagged
Automacoin, bitcoin, Chaitin's Constant, Chaitin's number, Chris Calude, Collatz Conjecture, Elon Musk, G.H. Hardy, Georg Cantor, George Gilder, Goldbach Conjecture, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Gregory Chaitin, Halting Probability Omega, Hector Zenil, Legendre's Conjecture, Marvin Minsky, Omega, Philosophy, Ray Solomonoff, Stephen Wolfram, Twin Prime Conjecture}

The Chaitin Interview V: Chaitin’s Number

_{Robert J. Marks

April 1, 2021

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Listen in as Robert J. Marks picks the mind of Professor Gregory Chaitin about Chaitin’s number – a number that has been called “mystical and magical”. How does this number work? Why do some people call it “Chaitin’s constant”? What is the usefulness of philosophizing in mathematics? Show Notes Additional Resources

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News
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December 21, 2020

Categorized
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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Events}

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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November 19, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

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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 ›

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November 18, 2020

Categorized
Economics, Global Technology

Tagged
Carbon, Carbon computing, Computers, Energy efficiency, Environment, Featured, Gaming AI (book), George Gilder, Robert J. Marks}

Could Carbon Computing Make Computers More Environment Friendly?

_{As a key component of life forms, carbon is abundant and energy efficient} _{News

November 18, 2020

6

Economics, Global Technology}

Carbon, a very abundant chemical element, is one of the building blocks of life, partly on account of its stability. It is a minimalist element, compared to the silicon used in computing today: … carbon dioxide is is a small gaseous molecule consisting of two oxygens both forming a double bond with a single carbon while silicon dioxide is a massive behemoth of a molecule made of huge numbers of alternating oxygen and silicon atoms and is more commonly known as sand. S. E. Gould, “Shine on you crazy diamond: why humans are carbon-based lifeforms” at Scientific American (November 11, 2012) But there’s something else about carbon. As George Gilder puts it, carbon-based life forms, like humans, consume very little Read More ›

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November 17, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy

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Analog computers, Digital computing, Featured, Gaming AI (book), George Gilder, halting problem, Microcosm (book), Quantum Computing, qubits, Robert J. Marks}

Does Schrödinger’s Cat Think Quantum Computing Is a Sure Thing?

_{It might lead to more security, though not to thinking computers} _{News

November 17, 2020

5

Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy}

Some hope that a move to quantum computing—qubits instead of bits, analog instead of digital—will work wonders, including the invention of the true thinking computer. In last week’s podcast, futurist George Gilder and computer engineer Robert J. Marks looked at, among other things, what’s really happening with quantum computing: https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-108-George-Gilder.mp3 (The quantum computing discussion begins at 15:04.) Robert J. Marks: What’s your take on quantum computing? It seems to me that there’s been glacial progress in the technology. George Gilder (pictured): I think quantum computing is rather like AI, in that it moves the actual problem outside the computational process and gives the illusion that it solved the problem, but it’s really just pushed the problem out. Quantum computing is Read More ›

Blockchain technology. Information blocks in digital space. Decentralized global network. Cyberspace data protection. 3D illustration with elements of a binary code

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November 12, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Global Technology

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bitcoin, Blockchain, China, Facial Recognition, Featured, Gaming AI (book), George Gilder, Internet security, Life after Google (book), Robert J. Marks}

While the West Hesitates, China Is Moving to Blockchain

_{Life After Google by George Gilder, advocating blockchain, became a best seller in China and received a social sciences award} _{News

November 12, 2020

7

Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Global Technology}

In this week’s podcast, “George Gilder on blockchain and carbon computing,” tech philosopher George Gilder and computer engineer Robert J. Marks, our Walter Bradley Center director, continued their discussion of the impact of artificial intelligence (AI). This time, they focused on the future of blockchain, of quantum computing, and carbon computing.What difference will they make? Quite a lot it seems. Today, we will look at what happens when blockchain goes global. You can download Gilder’s new book, Gaming AI, for free here. The three earlier episodes and transcripts in this series are also linked below. And so now… https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-108-George-Gilder.mp3 Gilder and Marks discussed both the huge surge of interest in blockchain in China and the central weakness of Bitcoin, whose Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
November 12, 2020

Tagged
bitcoin, Blockchain, Carbon computing, cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrency, Currency, economy, Facial Recognition, Gaming AI (book), George Gilder, Global economy, hashing, Libra, Life after Google (book), Quantum Computing, quantum encryption, Silicon}

George Gilder on Blockchain and Carbon Computing

_{Robert J. Marks

November 12, 2020

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George Gilder and Robert J. Marks discuss blockchain, Bitcoin, quantum and carbon computing, and George Gilder’s new book Gaming AI: Why AI Can’t Think but Can Transform Jobs (which you can get for free here). Show Notes Additional Resources

Strongyloides stercoralis (threadworm) in stool, analyze by microscope

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November 10, 2020

Categorized
Natural Intelligence, Neuroscience

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Anthony Stretton, Connectome, Featured, George Gilder, Nematode worm, Robert J. Marks}

Stretton’s Paradox: The Paradox of the Lowly Worm

_{Because nature is full of intelligence, the more we learn, even about a worm, the less we "know"} _{News

November 10, 2020

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Natural Intelligence, Neuroscience}

George Gilder used the term “Stretton’s paradox” in connection with the attempt to understand the human connectome, the white matter in your brain that is as dense as the entire internet. Read More ›

Robotic man cyborg face representing artificial intelligence 3D rendering

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November 5, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence

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AI Indian Summer, AI Winter, Connectome, Featured, Gaming AI (book), George Gilder, Ray Kurzweil, Robert J. Marks, Singularity, zettabyte}

Has the Singularity Been Called Off? Indefinitely Postponed?

_{If a human brain has as many connections as the whole internet, why should we merge with computers in a Singularity?} _{News

November 5, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence}

In this week’s podcast, “George Gilder on Superintelligent AI,” tech philosopher George Gilder and computer engineer Robert J. Marks, our Walter Bradley Center director, continued their discussion of the impact of artificial intelligence (AI). This time, they focused on whether, in terms of AI, we are in an Indian summer (a warm period just before winter sets in). Or is AI advancing to a superintelligence that eclipses the intellect of humans? You can download Gilder’s new book, Gaming AI, for free here. The two earlier episodes and transcripts are linked below. And now … https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-107-George-Gilder.mp3 From the transcript: (Show Notes, Resources, and a link to the complete transcript follow.) Robert J. Marks: Why do you believe that we are on Read More ›

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Robert J. Marks
Date
November 5, 2020

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Alan Turing, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Artificial Intelligence, Connectome, DeepMind, Ergodicity, George Gilder, Kurt Gödel, Life after Google (book), Nematode worm, Neural networks, Ray Kurzweil, Singularity, Superintelligence, Tony Stretton, Turing Machine, zettabyte}

George Gilder on Superintelligent AI

_{Robert J. Marks

November 5, 2020

1}

George Gilder and Robert J. Marks discuss the human brain, superintelligent machines, artificial intelligence, and George Gilder’s new book Gaming AI: Why AI Can’t Think but Can Transform Jobs (which you can get for free here). Show Notes Additional Resources

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November 4, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence

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Anthony Stretton, Binary Reality Assumption, Ergodicity, Ergodicity Assumption, Featured, Gaming AI, George Gilder, Go, Map vs. territory, Roundworm, self-driving cars}

Maps Are Not Territories and Reality Needn’t Follow Our Rules

_{These assumptions are just two more tales from the AI apocalypse, as George Gilder tells it, in Gaming AI.} _{News

November 4, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence}

Yesterday, we looked at two of the six assumptions that, according to George Gilder (pictured) in Gaming AI, are generally shared by those who believe that we will merge with our machines in a Singularity. These first two assumptions were: The brain is a computer and Big Data is a Big Answer. Now here are two more: • “The Binary Reality Assumption: Reliable links exist between maps and territories, computational symbols, and their objects.” (p. 50) Basically, this assumption means that reality will somehow always phone the computer’s map to say that things have changed. That assumption underlies the push for self-driving cars that can handle any terrain (Level 5). The machine is to handle all possibilities, including remote, unmapped Read More ›

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November 3, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience, Science

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Big Data, Big Data Assumption, brain, computer, Featured, Gaming AI (book), Gary Smith, George Gilder, Modeling Assumption, Yuri Danilov}

The Brain Is Not a Computer and Big Data Is Not a Big Answer

_{These claims are mere tales from the AI apocalypse, as George Gilder tells it, in Gaming AI} _{News

November 3, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience, Science}

In Gaming AI, George Gilder (pictured) sets out six assumptions generally shared by those who believe that, in a Singularity sometime soon, we will merge with our machines. Some of these assumptions seem incorrect and they are certainly all discussable. So let’s look at the first two: • “The Modeling Assumption: A computer can deterministically model a brain.” (p. 50) That would be quite difficult because brains don’t function like computers: As neuroscientist Yuri Danilov said last year, “Right now people are saying, each synoptical connection is a microprocessor. So if it’s a microprocessor, you have 1012 neurons, each neuron has 105 synapses, so you have… you can compute how many parallel processing units you have in the brain if Read More ›

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October 30, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

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Consciousness, Gaming AI (book), George Gilder, Philip Ball, Quantum computers, Quantum Mechanics, Qubit}

Will Quantum Mechanics Produce the True Thinking Computer?

_{Quantum computers come with real world problems of their own} _{News

October 30, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

Some hope that quantum mechanics can explain human consciousness. Maybe we are all quantum computers but don’t know it? Maybe quantum computers could think like people? There is an odd relationship between the human mind and quantum mechanics, the science of entities like electrons that are too small to be governed by ordinary physics. Some aspects of consciousness appear to be mediated by such elementary particles. Science writer Philip Ball explains, Nobody understands what consciousness is or how it works. Nobody understands quantum mechanics either. Could that be more than coincidence? Quantum mechanics is the best theory we have for describing the world at the nuts-and-bolts level of atoms and subatomic particles. Perhaps the most renowned of its mysteries is Read More ›

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October 29, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance

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Benjamin Franklin, Computer trading, Featured, Flash crashes, Gaming AI (book), George Gilder, Investment, Jack Marshall, knowledge, Robert J. Marks, stock market}

Faster Computers Lead to More Wealth, Right? What Could Go Wrong?

_{What if fast computers get in the way of carefully considering information before starting trades?} _{News

October 29, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance}

In this week’s podcast, tech philosopher George Gilder and computer engineer Robert J. Marks, our Walter Bradley Center director, continued their discussion of the impact of artificial intelligence (AI). This time, they focused on the way AI affects the stock market, for better or worse. You can download Gilder’s new book, Gaming AI, for free here. The first part of the discussion between Gilder and Marks is here. Meanwhile… https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-106-George-Gilder.mp3 From the transcript: (Show Notes, Resources, and a link to the complete transcript follow.) Robert J. Marks: I had a friend, Jack Marshall, who was a professor of financial engineering. He was approached all the time by people who said, “I have beat the market by artificial intelligence.” And of Read More ›

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Robert J. Marks
Date
October 29, 2020

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Alan Turing, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Data Mining, Ergodicity, front running, Gaming AI (book), George Gilder, Gregory Chaitin, John von Neumann, Kurt Gödel, Life after Google (book), Mind Brain, stock market, Turing Machine}

Artificial Intelligence Gaming the Stock Market

_{Robert J. Marks

October 29, 2020

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What are some assumptions about artificial intelligence? How does artificial intelligence affect the stock market? George Gilder and Robert J. Marks discuss assumptions about artificial intelligence, the stock market, and George Gilder’s new book Gaming AI: Why AI Can’t Think but Can Transform Jobs (which you can get for free here). Show Notes Additional Resources

Chain of amino acid or biomolecules called protein - 3d illustration

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October 27, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Medicine and Health

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AlphaFold, Andrew Senior, Chance, DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, Featured, Gaming AI (book), George Gilder, Kirk Durston, protein folding}

If AlphaFold Is a Product of Design, Maybe Our Bodies Are Too

_{The deeper we go into science, the more important our unique human contributions become} _{News

October 27, 2020

5

Artificial Intelligence, Medicine and Health}

Recently, we’ve been looking at tech philosopher George Gilder’s new Gaming AI about what AI can—and can’t—do for us. It can’t do our thinking for us but it can do many jobs we don’t even try because no human being has enough time or patience to motor through all the calculations. Which brings us to the massive complexity of the proteins that carry out our genetic instructions—better knowledge of which would help us battle many diseases. Gilder notes that when DeepMind’s AlphaGo beat humans at the board game Go in 2016, it wasn’t just for the fun of winning a game. DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis (pictured in 2018) is more interested in real-life uses such as medical research (p. 11). Read More ›

Getting to know the neighbors at the country houses in village

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October 24, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

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Featured, Gaming AI (book), George Gilder, Go, Map vs. territory, Robert J. Marks}

Why Is AI a Key Battleground in Philosophy and Religion?

_{Tech philosopher George Gilder explains. Spoiler: He thinks humans will win} _{News

October 24, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

In this week’s podcast, Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks interviews futurist George Gilder on “How AI is gaming intelligence.” Their discussion stems from Gilder’s new book, Gaming AI: Why AI Can’t Think But Can Transform Jobs (free for download here). https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-105-George-Gilder.mp3 From the transcript: (Show Notes, Resources, and a link to the complete transcript follow.) Robert J. Marks (pictured): In general, do you see AI as a new demotion of the human race? This is pretty serious prose. George Gilder: Well, it declares that the human mind is just a machine that can be simulated by computer algorithms … thus demoting the human endeavor from being the center of everything, to becoming a mere planet of a larger Read More ›

Artificial Intelligence. Composition on the subject of Future Technologies. 3d rendered graphics.

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October 23, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence

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Analog computers, Big Data, Charles Sanders Peirce, Featured, Gaming AI (book), Gary Smith, George Dyson, George Gilder, Interpretant, John Archibald Wheeler, Map vs. territory, Microcosm (book), Quantum Computing, Quantum Zeno effect, Robert J. Marks}

Why AI Geniuses Haven’t Created True Thinking Machines

_{The problems have been hinting at themselves all along} _{News

October 23, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence}

As we saw yesterday, artificial intelligence (AI) has enjoyed a a string of unbroken successes against humans. But these are successes in games where the map is the territory. Therefore, everything is computable. That fact hints at the problem tech philosopher and futurist George Gilder raises in Gaming AI (free download here). Whether all human activities can be treated that way successfully is an entirely different question. As Gilder puts it, “AI is a system built on the foundations of computer logic, and when Silicon Valley’s AI theorists push the logic of their case to a “singularity,” they defy the most crucial findings of twentieth-century mathematics and computer science.” Here is one of the crucial findings they defy (or ignore): Read More ›