
Eric Holloway is a Senior Fellow with the Walter Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence, and holds a PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Baylor University. A Captain in the United States Air Force, he served in the US and Afghanistan. He is the co-editor of Naturalism and Its Alternatives in Scientific Methodologies.
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Ancient Greek Philosophy and Modern Blockbuster Graphics
The amazing computer-generated effects you see in almost every blockbuster today are only possible thanks to ideas proposed over 2300 years ago.
Life According to the Turing Machine
Is there more to the world than just data and digits?
Does ChatGPT Pass the Creativity Test?
What does ChatGPT have to do in order to be considered creative?
Can AI Create its Own Information?
The simple answer is "no," but why? Eric Holloway explains
Say What? AI Doesn’t Understand Anything
Is that supposed to be a cat, Mr. AI?
Minecraft: A World of Information
The world's bestselling video game captures the insight that information is created and consumed by human minds
For BitHeaven’s Sake
A satirical short story on the transhumanist quest (and failure) to achieve immortality
AI and Human Text: Indistinct?
Here's a mathematical proof that challenges the assumption that AI and human-made text are the same
AI vs. Human Intentionality
If ChatGPT were trained over and over on its own output, it would eventually turn to gibberish
We Can’t Build a Hut to the Moon
The history of AI is a story of a recurring cycle of hype and disappointment
ChatGPT Violates Its Own Model
Based on these exchanges, we can at least say the chatbot is more than just the ChatGPT neural network
Blinded by a Defunct Theory
The "interaction problem" is everywhere we look in physics, but the dogma of materialism remains
Found! ChatGPT’s Humans in the Loop!
I am the only writer I’ve been able to discover who is suggesting ChatGPT has humans in the loop. Here is a series of telling excerpts from our last conversation…
Is ChatGPT Solely a Neural Network? I Tested That…
Changing the random number test to a "computer easy, human hard" test requires simply that we ask ChatGPT to reverse the random number. It couldn't.
Yes, ChatGPT Is Sentient — Because It’s Really Humans in the Loop
ChatGPT itself told me there could be humans crafting its input. My tests indicate that that’s likely true
CAPTCHA: How Fooling Machines Is Different From Fooling Humans
Automated censorship is intended to protect against a tidal wave of spam but it could certainly have other uses…
AI Art Is Not “AI-Generated Art.” It is Engineer-Generated Art
The computers aren’t taking over the art world. The engineers are. Just the way engineers have taken over the music world with modern electronic music
How We Know the Mind Is About Information, Not Matter or Energy
The computer program’s world is one of binary 0 or 1 decisions but the physical world is one of many different shades of more or less