SCIENCE UPRISING: Everything You Want to Know — Facts and Fictions — About Artificial Intelligence (AI)

You may well have never heard of Dr. Robert Marks, author of “Non-Computable You: What You Do that Artificial Intelligence Never Will (2022).” But if you are interested, fascinated or terrified by AI, you are in for a treat today.

Marks is the Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Baylor University and one of the grizzled veterans in the field of AI. He’s the former editor of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Transactions on Neural Networks, and was also president of IEEE’s Neural Networks Council for a number of years.

In other words, this guy knows Artificial Intelligence (AI)!

In the following interview for the Discovery Institute’s Science Uprising series, Marks explained the origins and present extent of AI — got Alexa in your home? You’re relying on AI! — and he addressed the proliferating rumors, fears and exaggerations about what AI can do now and what it is projected to be capable of doing in the future.

In other words, everything you need to know about AI is likely to be on this 29.19 video. Yes, it’s longer than usual for HillFaith, but there are more than a few ways in which folks in the media, government and academia are all but deifying AI, so it is critically important that we all have the facts:

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