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Computer Engineer Robert J. Marks Discusses the Perils and Promise of AI

Marks concedes that a computer code can surprise us — as, for example, when playing the game Go. Read More ›
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An Invitation: Science, Culture, and the COSM Conference

Discovery is getting ready to enter into a conversation with leaders in the information and technology industry, centered in Seattle. Read More ›
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Strong Campaign Slogans? Winning Tag Lines? Don’t Ask AI

I watched a bit of President Trump’s campaign launch rally in Orlando last night and found it interesting to see him crowd-testing campaign slogans. Read More ›
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Robert J. Marks: Humor, Ambiguity, and AI

Dr. Marks thinks it’s possible that AI may improve in its ability to resolve ambiguous language. Right now it’s not looking so good. Read More ›
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Robert Marks: Materialism and the AI Delusion

Since humans are only the “result of purposeless, as-yet-unidentified physical phenomena,” machine are not in any way blocked from becoming what we are and much, much more. Read More ›
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Robert Marks: Why “Edmond de Belamy” Is Bunk

It has to do with the difference between interpolation and extrapolation. Read More ›
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Photo: A leafy sea dragon, by Sylke Rohrlach from Sydney [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Robert Marks on Evolution and Creativity

In our culture, crossing a range of thought disciplines, one views says that AI, entrepreneurship, and evolution can dispense with creativity. The algorithm is all! Read More ›
AI Life
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Progress in Defining “Being Alive”

I have long believed that “being alive” is the fundamental predicate to possessing even rudimentary intrinsic moral value. Read More ›
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Artificial Intelligence as a “Magic Act”

The error is not completely different from imagining that natural selection really can do what creative intelligence — foresight! — can do. Read More ›
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Gilder: AI and the Return of the Marxist Utopia

In this vision, thanks to AI, work is to become an obsolete concept as we all sit around on the beach collecting a monthly paycheck from the government. Read More ›

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