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Robert J. Marks II
36 quotes
“AI [artificial intelligence] is like a toddler with a Ph.D.. It’s really smart, but it still needs to be supervised.”
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“We are more than computers made out of meat. We have a soul, we have a spirit and we have a mind.”
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“[On Chaitin's Constant:] Chaiton's work in identifying it is an intellectually stunning piece of mathematics with the clear philosophical and theological implication that our universe is not fully explainable in materialist terms.”
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“Computers are no more able to create information than iPods are capable of creating music.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in: Stephen C. Meyer, Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design, HarperOne (2009) p. 292
“Is it wrong to pray for God to make me more successful so that I can be more humble?”
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“If "knowledge puffs up," then we professors are in ever-present danger of having egos resembling threatened blow fish.”
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“Engineers actually design things. This is why [many] engineers are interested in the area of intelligent design.”
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“All engineering fields are either solutions looking for problems or problems looking for solutions.”
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“Forecasting the future of technology is risky. Predictions tend to be linear whereas technical advances come in quantum jumps from paradigm shifts. After the second World War, forecasters in electronics [who did not foresee the transistor] would have linearly [and incorrectly] foretasted breakthroughs in better vacuum tube reliability from, for example, improved filament chemistry.”
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“Christians are being subjected to the same “separate but equal” discrimination used to justify discrimination in the old Jim Crow south.”
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“Science packages theory, places it on a throne, and honors and protects it much like a queen. Engineers make the queen come down from the throne and scrub the floor. And if she doesn’t work, we fire her.”
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“For the record, I don’t deserve this. But I have lower back pain and don’t deserve that either. (After being listed as one of the twenty most brilliant living Christian Professors.)”
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“There is no foundational mathematical or physical reason the relationship between Pythagorean and tempered western music should exist. It just does. The rich flexibility of the tempered scale and the … bountiful archives of western music are a testimonial to this wonderful coincidence provided by nature.”
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“Can anyone write code to explain to a computer their sensory experience of enjoying hot buttered sweet corn?”
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“Saying the Bible is not a book about science is like saying a cookbook is not a book about chemistry.”
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“ChatGPT relies on syntax: the statistics of words in a sentence. People rely on semantics: the meaning of words.”
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“AI is just a tool, like electricity or fire. It can be used for good or evil.”
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“Turning a soul into an algorithm is pure nonsense.”
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“If we remove people's non-algorithmic characteristics, we will get a very boring person.”
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“[The robot] Sophia has been granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia. And Homer Simpson has been given citizenship in Winnipeg, Ontario. Both decisions are silly. The difference is that the city of Winnipeg acknowledged that their action was a joke.”
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“Robots deserve no more human rights than a 3D printer or toaster.”
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“The better we understand creation and the possibilities of logic and algorithms, the more we see the glory of God.”
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“Actual AI is written with computer code such as Python or C++. “Super-intelligent AI” is written using PowerPoint slides.”
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“Software without bias is like water without wet.”
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“[Ray] Kurzweil says that “consciousness is a biological process like digestion, lactation, photosynthesis, or mitosis.” Or, to revise Descartes, “I lactate. Therefore, I think.”
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“[N]on-algorithmic computing in digital silicon is an oxymoron.”
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“The ultimate success of AI is not due to journal papers, blogs, press releases, forecasts, corporate acquisitions, speculation, or promises. Success is measured by reduction to practice.”
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“Given enough time, any algorithm performed on a modern-day computer can be done by the programmer with pencil and paper.”
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“Computers can only analyze inside the box. Remarkable humans have the meta-ability to go outside ourselves, look back inside, and explore our abilities. We can understand understanding, think about thinking, and … know about the unknowable”
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“Emotions that make us human will never be duplicated by a machine. These include compassion, love, empathy, elation, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, pleasure, pride, excitement, embarrassment, regret, jealousy, grief, hope, and faith. Properly defined, creativity, sentience, and understanding are also on the list. These and other non-algorithmic traits are evidence of non-computable you.”
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“Any claim that “all religions are true” is like claiming any liquid from a cow, when chilled, goes well with a chocolate chip cookie.”
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“[S]ome modern [Christian] praise music sung in churches during Sunday worship service is referred to as 7-11 music: seven words repeated eleven times.”
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“Those who worship at the feet of materialism often don’t admit to the limitations imposed by their narrow core belief.”
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“The best immortality prospect for the materialist looks to be either deep freezing dead bodies until a cure is found, or computer replication of brains in silicon. One won’t work and the other can’t survive a power outage.”
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“Individual self-sovereignty is a load-bearing pillar on which liberty rests.”
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“Those who believe in the coming of Strong AI argue that non-algorithmic consciousness will be an emergent property as AI complexity ever increases. In other words, consciousness will just happen, as a sort of natural outgrowth of the code’s increasing complexity. Such unfounded optimism is akin to that of a naive young boy standing in front of a large pile of horse manure. He becomes excited and begins digging into the pile, flinging handfuls of manure over his shoulders. “With all this horse poop,” he says, “there must be a pony in here somewhere!” Strong AI proponents similarly claim, in essence, “With all this computational complexity, there must be some consciousness here somewhere!”
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