Category: Neuroscience & Mind
Depths of Design: Talking Boxes
Our talking boxes take our requests, run their routines, and send out results but understand nothing, whether or not they’re made in China.
Depths of Design: Moving Pixels
None of these avatars possess any inherent intelligence whatsoever. Every human instinct therein is an extension of a game developer’s forethought.
For AI, Human Hands Are Exceptional…For Now
In many artificially contrived images, the hands come up gnarled, disfigured, or otherwise anatomically incorrect.
Depths of Design: Seductive Optics and Skeuomorphic Intelligence
The effort to mirror objects in the world in our artistic creations reaches back into prehistory.
Kenneth Miller on Consciousness and Evolution
Despite Miller’s claims, neither human reason nor free will evolved because neither is generated by material processes.