Tag: Computational Sciences
Your Mind into a Computer Would Not Be You
The transhumanist fantasy about becoming immortal through uploading your mind to a computer is nonsense — even if such a thing could be done.
Richard Dawkins’s Publisher Has a Cute Idea, but Biomorphs Appeal More as Nostalgia than Science
The biomorphs are “digital animals…grounded in 1970s assumptions,” long outdated.
Watson’s Goof — What We Should Really Fear from AI
It was a telling response, revealing the idiot inside the savant.
No, Your Brain Isn’t a Three-Pound Meat Computer
AI machines are more a form of mimicry than anything even approaching intelligence.
Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Chances of Intelligently Designed Universe “May Be Very High”
But of course he was referring to the odds that the universe is an artificial computer simulation by advanced aliens.