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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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Photo credit: Gage Skidmore, via Flickr (cropped).

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 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 ›
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Great Minds: How Darwinism and AI Are Oversold, Often at the Same Time

The Center for Science & Culture and the Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence share more than the commonality of being sponsored by Discovery Institute. Read More ›
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Photo: Ivan Ilić, a concert pianist, by Tibor BBB [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

A Positive, Useful Discussion of Human Exceptionalism … On the Internet? Yes!

Not all humans can be concert pianists. Some humans can’t speak or get out of a wheelchair or remember their daughter’s name anymore. Here we enter into moral and ethical issues. Read More ›
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Photo: A gecko displays its superbly designed toes, by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Biology Approaching the Threshold of Design Acceptance?

A recent biology paper inches up to the edge of design advocacy, without using the phrase “intelligent design.” Read More ›
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Photo: Robert Marks and Michael Medved, by Nathan Jacobson.

Great Minds: Marks, Medved on Human Exceptionalism’s Two Frontiers

There are fundamental, unbridgeable chasms on either side, animal and machine. The capacity for creativity, for one thing, stands permanently outside the reach of algorithms. Read More ›
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Robert Marks: Randomness and the Enigma of Creativity

Only a freely acting, designing agent resolves the mystery. Only such an agent creates, truly, ex nihilo. Read More ›
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Photo: Robert Marks and Michael Medved, by Nathan Jacobson.

Great Minds: Robert Marks, Michael Medved on the Limits of Computation

There’s no danger of computers ruling us, but there is a peril in employing them to greatly magnify the impact of our own errors. Read More ›

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