Tag: computation
Science for Insight or Science for Power?
What are the core purposes of science and math? Evaluating the idea of “knowledge as power” in the computer age.
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.
MIT’s Rizwan Virk on Simulation Theory, AKA Intelligent Design
Egnor: “If we are living in a computer simulation, we couldn’t think to ask the question.”
Human Computation — A “Practical Application” of Intelligent Design
As Denyse O’Leary asks, “Why is it comparatively easy to develop a program to play chess, as opposed to teaching a robot to walk freely?”
Egnor: Why Machines Will Never Think
This doesn’t mean that people will not abuse the power of AI to hurt each other, and hurt themselves.