Tag: Walter Bradley Center
Marks on the AI Church: “The Singularity Is Far”
New religions, including one centered on Artificial Intelligence, follow a stereotyped pattern.
Great Minds: Marks, Medved on Human Exceptionalism’s Two Frontiers
There are fundamental, unbridgeable chasms on either side, animal and machine. The capacity for creativity, for one thing, stands permanently outside the reach of algorithms.
Trends in Philosophy of Science: What Does “Semantic Information” Mean?
Theorists hope to alleviate a deficiency in Shannon information theory, which dealt only with the structure of a communication, not its semantics.
Great Minds: Robert Marks, Michael Medved on the Limits of Computation
There’s no danger of computers ruling us, but there is a peril in employing them to greatly magnify the impact of our own errors.
Melissa Cain Travis Introduces the “Maker Thesis”
Science reveals a transcendent mind, and mind enables science.