an-electric-trolley-along-canal-street-in-new-orleans-louisi-198997157-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Brendan Dixon Date October 13, 2016 CategoriesComputational SciencesEthicsNeuroscience & MindTechnology Tagged , __nedited, ai ethics, androids, anthropomorphism, binary, crowdsourcing, free will, moral dilemmas, self-driving cars, Trolley Problem, utilitarianism Artificial Intelligence Has a Morality Problem Brendan Dixon October 13, 2016 Computational Sciences, Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology 6 The Moral Machine is an interactive version of the Trolley Problem. Read More ›
weasel-on-a-log-stockpack-adobe-stock-468773676-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Jonathan Witt Date September 23, 2016 CategoriesArtsBioethicsComputational SciencesEvolution Tagged , __edited, evolutionary informatics, hallucinations, Hamlet, information theory, Richard Dawkins, simulations, The Blind Watchmaker, theater play, thought experiment, Weasel program, William Shakespeare Richard Dawkins’s Weasel Program Is Bad in Ways You Never Dreamed Jonathan Witt September 23, 2016 Arts, Bioethics, Computational Sciences, Evolution 9 His reductive approach causes him to miss a delicious irony. Read More ›
laptop-with-half-lid-open-on-a-table-lit-with-colorful-deskt-449638607-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date September 9, 2016 CategoriesComputational SciencesIntelligent Design Tagged , __nedited, immaterial mind, purpose, software analogy, Steve Jobs, Undeniable (book) Intelligent Design and the Computer Analogy David Klinghoffer September 9, 2016 Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design 3 Imagine if computer science allowed researchers to consider the physical components of computers but not the "ideas" that drive them. Read More ›
powered-language-translation-software-for-global-communicati-772545004-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Brendan Dixon Date August 16, 2016 CategoriesComputational SciencesLinguisticsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __nedited, artificial intelligence, Big Data, deep learning, game playing ai, games, Google Translate, intuition, language, Neural Networks, semantic information, specialization, translation Artificial Intelligence and the Language Barrier Brendan Dixon August 16, 2016 Computational Sciences, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind 8 If you have a few free minutes, try, for fun, filling them with Google Translate. Read More ›
Type post Author Brendan Dixon Date August 8, 2016 CategoriesComputational SciencesNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __edited, __tedited, artificial intelligence, Erik Larson, human intelligence, Turing test What Does It Mean to Be Intelligent? Brendan Dixon August 8, 2016 Computational Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind 7 Despite headlines, no machine has yet come close to passing a serious Turing Test. Web security relies on this fact. Read More ›
Type post Author Brendan Dixon Date August 2, 2016 CategoriesComputational SciencesNeuroscience & MindTechnology Tagged , __edited, __tedited, artificial intelligence, autonomy, biases, computational power, computer programming, human exceptionalism, scalability, unintended consequences Artificial Intelligence and Its Limits Brendan Dixon August 2, 2016 Computational Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology 7 AI is neither the emergence of another intelligence, nor one we should allow to wander on its own without human oversight. Read More ›
Type post Author Ann Gauger Date July 27, 2016 CategoriesComputational SciencesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , __k-review, Research, Science, Undeniable (book) Now You Can Try Stylus, a Computer Model for Protein Evolution, for Yourself Ann Gauger July 27, 2016 Computational Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design 1 The model draws on an amazing insight of Douglas Axe, author of the newly released book Undeniable. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 11, 2016 CategoriesComputational SciencesNeuroscience & MindPhilosophy Tagged , __tedited, brain processes, computation, computational processing, consciousness, intentionality, machine cognition, machine metaphor, meaninglessness, methodological materialism, mind-brain problem, self-awareness Your Deluded Brain Thinks It’s Conscious! Michael Egnor July 11, 2016 Computational Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy 6 Nonsense in neuroscience is a deep well. This is just in from Princeton's Michael Graziano. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date June 20, 2016 CategoriesBioethicsComputational SciencesTechnology Tagged , __k-review, News, science, world Your Mind into a Computer Would Not Be You Wesley J. Smith June 20, 2016 Bioethics, Computational Sciences, Technology 1 The transhumanist fantasy about becoming immortal through uploading your mind to a computer is nonsense -- even if such a thing could be done. Read More ›
Type post Author Brendan Dixon Date June 17, 2016 CategoriesComputational SciencesFaith & Science Tagged , __tedited, atheism, creation myth, creationism, irony, just-so stories, moral responsibility, simulation theory, Singularity When Atheists Meet Creationism, You Get Creatheism Brendan Dixon June 17, 2016 Computational Sciences, Faith & Science 3 It is not a word that rolls easily off the tongue. But I am at a loss for one that better describes the atheists Daniel Jackson describes. Read More ›
