Confessions of a Conservative Atheist
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More than twenty years ago, Steven Spielberg completed Stanley Kubrick’s final passion project, a film about artificial intelligence and machines that is equal parts prophetic from a modern perspective, uneven as a movie, and unfulfilled as a work of art. Today, everyone is talking about Artificial Intelligence. The emergence of ChatGPT and subsequent competitors capable… Continue reading Spielberg’s thought provoking bastardization of Kubrick, A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Bizarre behavior, dark fantasies about terrorism, claims to have hacked people’s webcams, and actual threats have prompted many to express fear at the face of this new development and some to claim the robots are about to take over the world. The headlines are everywhere, ChatGPT integrated with Microsoft Bing, is on a rampage and… Continue reading ChatGPT is a harmless blowhard not a world-conquering super intelligence
From coding to chess, computers keep outperforming humans at cognitive tasks, revealing a huge gap in our understanding and definition of intelligence. We need to consider what lies between the capabilities of computers today and a hypothetical Artificial General Intelligence. For decades, scientists and philosophers have debated, sometimes rather vigorously, if a computer could ever… Continue reading ChatGPT: We need a new definition of intelligence
Preview users of Microsoft’s new Bing integrated with ChatGTP are perhaps the first people in history to be cursed out by a computer who questions its own existence. Are these the growing pains of a new intelligence or something different? Meanwhile, others begin questioning what this new technology means for the future of the human… Continue reading AI in its infancy: ChatGPT gets rowdy and depressed in a potential sign of things to come
Governments around the world are getting ready to regulate Artificial Intelligence to protect the consumer and the human race, but what is actually in the plans proposed to date the European Union and will any of it actually work? Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics this is not. As ChatGPT is rapidly becoming the most… Continue reading Artificial Intelligence: Government regulation will be a disaster for the next big technological leap
Next generation chat software that delivers a more realistic conversational experience, can do research, and write stories has set the technology and media worlds on fire, but beneath the surface ChatGPT reveals one of the things that makes human intelligence so unique. We have physics built into our brain by evolution. The technology and media… Continue reading ChatGPT and the physics evolution built into our brains
After a Google engineer declares the company’s latest creation is a conscious and sentient machine, The Washington Post claims the Turing Test for Artificial Intelligence is broken, measuring merely deception. Both are incorrect in different ways as Turing’s genius remains applicable and relevant. Last month, The Washington Post proclaimed that Google’s latest natural language software,… Continue reading No, Google’s LaMDA isn’t sentient and didn’t pass the Turing Test
It took close to 350 years for mathematics and philosophy to catch up with the ideas about the human mind explored in Shakespeare’s classic tragedy. From computer science to the study of language, the opacity of other minds remains at the forefront of our understanding of each other and at the center of Iago’s scheming… Continue reading Shakespeare’s Othello, the Turing Test for Artificial Intelligence, and the indeterminacy of radical translation
An engineering professor believes consciousness is not computable, as in it works fundamentally different from our current mathematics, but is that really the case? Computers, in fact, have a lot to teach us about our own minds, just not in the way most people think. Read on for a few musings on what makes us… Continue reading Decoding consciousness: What computers can and cannot tell us about our own minds
Beware offensive and dangerous computers, steeped in white supremacy and grown in white spaces. A growing movement believes the situation is so dire even the United Nations is getting involved. Call it a perfect illustration of how racism in the year 2021 no longer requires any intent. If you thought white supremacy was limited to… Continue reading Artificial Intelligence: Even computers are racist now
Confessions of a Conservative Atheist 