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AI Consciousness Hype “Conflates Simulation with Instantiation”

Robert Lawrence Kuhn interviewed a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist, Àlex Gómez-Marín, on whether AI can become conscious. Read More ›
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Putting AI to the “Tolkien Test”: Could It Pass?

Could ChatGPT ever hope to get close to the creative depth found in Tolkien’s Middle-earth? Read More ›
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Ray Kurzweil Predicts: The “Singularity” by 2045

Under Kurzweil’s transhumanist vision of the future, AI promises us superhuman capabilities complete with heaven on earth and eternal life. Read More ›
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For AI to Be Creative, Here’s What It Would Take

AI can appear smart when it generates a surprising result. But surprise does not equate to creativity. Read More ›
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Can Artificial Intelligence Be Creative?

Lady Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, was the first computer programmer. Read More ›
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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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Robert Marks on the Lovelace Test

Beyond lies the unique realm of the human, no matter what addled things Stephen Hawking may say about computers “replacing” us. Read More ›

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