
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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AI Companies Are Massively Faking the Loophole in the Turing Test
I propose the Turing Test be further strengthened by presuming a chatbot is human until proven otherwise
Does Information Weigh Something After All? What If It Does?
At the rate we create information today, one physicist computes that in 350 years, the energy will outweigh the atoms of Earth
Soylent AI is…people!
OpenAI advertises itself as AI-powered, but at the end of the day, the system is human-powered
Dawkins’ Dubious Double Weasel and the Combinatorial Cataclysm
Dawkins has successfully reduced a combinatorial explosion to a manageable problem...or has he?
Can Computers –- and People — Learn To Think From the Bottom Up?
That’s the big promise made in a recent article at Aeon
Is AlphaZero Actually Superior to the Human Mind?
Comparing AI and the human mind is completely apples and oranges
“Slightly” Conscious Computers Could Doom Atheism
That might sound surprising but let’s follow the logic of the “consciousness” claim through to its inevitable conclusion
Chalmers and Penrose Clash Over “Conscious Computers”
Philosopher Chalmers thinks computers could be conscious but physicist Penrose says no
Are the Brain Cells in a Dish That Learned Pong Conscious?
Human-derived organoids learned faster than AI and always outperformed mouse-derived organoids in terms of volley length, raising troubling questions