Tag: Turing test

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 8, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Science Education
Technology
Tagged
, [Un]Intentional, 1 Thessalonians, absolutism, Aristotle, artificial intelligence, Bible, Carl Rogers, ChatGPT, Christians, dopamine, Doug Smith, education, Edward Thorndike, Eighteenth Amendment, ELIZA program, Frederick Buechner, geography, history, Jacques Ellul, Jaime Escalante, Joseph Weizenbaum, Judeo-Christian tradition, large language models, Laurent Siklossy, liquor, Marshall McLuhan, math, mathematicians, Neil Postman, Open AI, Phillips Exeter Academy, programmed learning, Prohibition, Rogerian therapists, Sam Altman, software, St. Paul, Substack, technology, Turing test, William Jennings Bryan}

Against Anti-LLM and Anti-AI Absolutism

_{William A. Dembski
January 8, 2026

Computational Sciences, Science Education, Technology

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Doug Smith has been a software developer for three decades. He writes extensively about the impact of technology on culture. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 29, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, Àlex Gómez-Marín, algorithms, artificial inteligence, Bible, cats, chatbots, Closer to Truth, computer program, consciousness, Dogs, humans, hype, James Webb Space Telescope, mushrooms, neuroscientists, Old Testament, physicists, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, robots, trees, Turing test}

AI Consciousness Hype “Conflates Simulation with Instantiation”

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 29, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Robert Lawrence Kuhn interviewed a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist, Àlex Gómez-Marín, on whether AI can become conscious. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
November 2, 2024

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, books, cathedrals, ChatGPT, creativity, human beings, intelligence, large language models, materialism, music, nature, Oxford University, sentience, soul, The Lord of the Rings, theists, Turing test, War and Peace}

Putting AI to the “Tolkien Test”: Could It Pass?

_{Peter Biles
November 2, 2024

Arts, Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Could ChatGPT ever hope to get close to the creative depth found in Tolkien’s Middle-earth? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 8, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Academy Award, artificial intelligence, Bible, computer scientists, Discovery Institute, futurists, Google, Hamas, Isaiah, Judeo-Christian tradition, killing, Michael Keas, morality, Ray Kurzweil, Seattle, Singularity, Skynet, The Imitation Game, The Matrix, transhumanism, Turing test}

Ray Kurzweil Predicts: The “Singularity” by 2045

_{Casey Luskin
November 8, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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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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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
July 5, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Ada Lovelace, artificial intelligence, bullies, chess, computer code, computer programs, creativity, games, Go (game), Lovelace test, Penn State, programmer, software, Turing test}

For AI to Be Creative, Here’s What It Would Take

_{Robert J. Marks II
July 5, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

7}

AI can appear smart when it generates a surprising result. But surprise does not equate to creativity. Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
June 28, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, chatbot, computer science, computers, creativity, English, Eugene Goostman, Go (game), Lord Byron, machines, Non-Computable You, programmers, Selmer Bringsjord, software, The Imitation Game, Turing test}

Can Artificial Intelligence Be Creative?

_{Robert J. Marks II
June 28, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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

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Author
Roman V. Yampolskiy

Date
July 16, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, computers, evolutionary algorithms, evolutionary computation, generations, genetic programming, programmers, software, Turing Machine, Turing test}

The State of the Art in Evolutionary Computation

_{Roman V. Yampolskiy
July 16, 2020

Evolution

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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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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 23, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, artificial intelligence, classical music, Elon Musk, Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics, Johann Sebastian Bach, Lovelace test, podcast, Robert Crowther, Robert J. Marks II, robots, Sarah Chaffee, Stephen Hawking, Turing test}

Robert Marks on the Lovelace Test

_{David Klinghoffer
January 23, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind

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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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Author
Brendan Dixon

Date
August 8, 2016

Categories
Computational Sciences
Neuroscience & 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

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Despite headlines, no machine has yet come close to passing a serious Turing Test. Web security relies on this fact. Read More ›