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Ray Kurzweil
Photo: Ray Kurzweil, by Nathan Jacobson.

Artificial General Intelligence: Machines vs. Organisms

It may seem that I’m picking too much on Ray Kurzweil. But he and I have been crossing paths for a long time. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Trey Ratcliff, via Flickr (cropped).

Marks: Non-Computable You Won’t Achieve Immortality Through an AI Machine

Dreams of achieving immortality by having your consciousness uploaded, merging man and computer in the predicted 2045 “Singularity,” are just that — dreams. Read More ›
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Photo: Pig oocyte, by Jakub Friedl / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Chromosome Dynamics Has Egg-centric Features

In the words of Robert Rosen we have to “drastically reconsider what is meant by “genetic information.’” Read More ›
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Photo: Coming "winter" for EA?, by Fabrice Villard via Unsplash.

The State of the Art in Evolutionary Computation

As with early AI, the claims are inflated, unsupported, and the solutions do not scale to real world problems. Perhaps an EA “winter” is long overdue. Read More ›
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Crying “Chance, Chance” When There Is No Chance

Note the artfully deployed passive voice. One-way traffic “was finally counteracted by the launch of the first artificial satellites.” Who counteracted it? Read More ›
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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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Hype and Fearmongering About Artificial Intelligence Passes Its Sell-By Date

The attribution of superpowers to coming generations of AI machines has entered self-parody territory. Read More ›

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