Tag: machines
Design in Living Things Goes Far Beyond Machines
René Descartes conceived of living things as complex machines, a concept now known as the “machine metaphor.”
Biophysicist Ken Dill: Protein Machines Are “Real Machines. That’s Not a Metaphor”
The implication of design, while no doubt unintended, is so powerful it almost doesn’t need to be spelled out.
New Discovery Institute Center to Explore Threat, Promise, Limits of AI; Seattle Launch on July 11
The Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence will focus on the profound concerns stirred by the mystery of minds.
Kissinger and Girard on Artificial Intelligence
Any genuine understanding of the impact AI will have (and is having) on humanity must begin with Girard.
Kissinger: A.I. Machines Won’t “Think”
Transhumanists and other anti-human exceptionalists have been arguing of late that artificial-intelligence machines are destined to become so sophisticated that they will become “self-aware.”