Mind Matters

By Discovery Institute Center on Natural and Artificial Intelligence

On the Mind Matters podcast, Discovery Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence considers the implications and misconceptions, the opportunities and limitations, and t... more

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September 20, 2018What is Business Intelligence?
Business intelligence affects you daily; from advertising and solicitation to how much you pay for tickets to watch the Dallas Cowboys. Jeremiah Marks talks about what business intelligence is and how it changes the way we approach our customers.
Show Notes
01:26 | Introducing Jeremiah Marks
02:00 | Opera Philadelphia
03:25 | Jeremiah Marks describes business intelligence
05:20 | Business intelligence packages
06:30 | Privacy, large databases, and business intelligence
08:45 | Visualizing big data
10:10 | “C-suite” and business intelligence
10:50 | Is business intelligence just a tool?
11:20 | How does business intelligence affect the consumer?
12:20 | Business intelligence and corporate America
13:05 | Auditable outputs; Explanation Facility
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September 07, 2018 What Humans Do That A.I. Can’t
AI can do many things faster and better than humans. It can beat humans in chess, outsmart us in Jeopardy, and defeat us at GO. The question remains. Is there anything a human can (and always will) do better than an AI? Show Notes 01:00 | Eric Holloway Introduction 01:57 | Fold It, a showdown between AI and amateurs 03:40 | Jay Read More ›
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September 07, 2018 What Humans Do That A.I. Can’t
AI can do many things faster and better than humans. It can beat humans in chess, outsmart us in Jeopardy, and defeat us at GO. The question remains. Is there anything a human can (and always will) do better than an AI? Show Notes 01:00 | Eric Holloway Introduction 01:57 | Fold It, a showdown between AI and amateurs 03:40 | Jay…
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19min
August 23, 2018 Non-Algorithmic Mind
What is an algorithm and could a computer ever perform a non-algorithmic task? Computers are getting faster, algorithms are getting more complex, and our computing power is growing. With all these advancements, are there limitations that computers can never overcome? Show Notes 01:22 | Roger Penrose – The Emperor’s New Mind and Shadows of the Mind 01:57 | Meet Eric Holloway Read More ›
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August 23, 2018Non-Algorithmic Mind
What is an algorithm and could a computer ever perform a non-algorithmic task? Computers are getting faster, algorithms are getting more complex, and our computing power is growing. With all these advancements, are there limitations that computers can never overcome?
Show Notes
01:22 | Roger Penrose – The Emperor’s New Mind and Shadows of the Mind
01:57 | Meet Eric Holloway
04:08 | Faster and faster computers and the Church-Turing thesis
05:03 | Deterministic and Non-deterministic Turing Computation
06:38 | The halting problem
07:20 | Past states, future states, and the inability to be purposeful
07:50 | Free will
08:40 | Axioms
09:50 | Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem
11:00 | Solomonoff Induction
11:25 | Kolmogorov Complexity
11:55 | Algorithmic Information Theory
13:04 | Consciousness and Qualia
14:00 | Ray Kurtzwell and transferring consciousness
Additional Resources
Penrose, Roger and N. David Mermin, The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (1990), 1214-1216.
Penrose, Roger. Shadows of the Mind. Vol. 4. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Holloway, Eric and Robert Marks “Observation of Unbounded Novelty in Evolutionary Algorithms is Unknowable.” Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (Springer, Cham: 2018), pp. 395-404.
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August 23, 2018Nonalgorithmic Mind
What is an algorithm and could a computer ever perform a non-algorithmic task? Computers are getting faster, algorithms are getting more complex, and our computing power is growing. With all these advancements, are there limitations that computers can never overcome?
Show Notes
01:22 | Roger Penrose – The Emperor’s New Mind and Shadows of the Mind
01:57 | Meet Eric Holloway
04:08 | Faster and faster computers and the Church-Turing thesis
05:03 | Deterministic and Non-deterministic Turing Computation
06:38 | The halting problem
07:20 | Past states, future states, and the inability to be purposeful
07:50 | Free will
08:40 | Axioms
09:50 | Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem
11:00 | Solomonoff Induction
11:25 | Kolmogorov Complexity
11:55 | Algorithmic Information Theory
13:04 | Consciousness and Qualia
14:00 | Ray Kurtzwell and transferring consciousness
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18min
August 09, 2018 Bitcoin and the Keys to Cryptocurrency Security
Everyone has heard the buzz about Bitcoin, but what is driving this mad dash and the volatile cryptocurrency markets? What are the mechanics of Bitcoin, of mining and trading it? How are transactions secured against tampering? Is it anonymous, and thereby shielded from the IRS? As Warren Buffet would have it, is it time to be fearful or greedy? Show Read More ›
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August 09, 2018Bitcoin and the Keys to Cryptocurrency Security
Everyone has heard the buzz about Bitcoin, but what is driving this mad dash and the volatile cryptocurrency markets? What are the mechanics of Bitcoin, of mining and trading it? How are transactions secured against tampering? Is it anonymous, and thereby shielded from the IRS? As Warren Buffet would have it, is it time to be fearful or greedy?
Show Notes
01:45 | Blockchain opening up new sources of funding
02:30 | Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper
03:30 | The two components of Bitcoin: mining and trading
05:30 | Why does Bitcoin work? How many people are sharing the ledger?
05:45 | The difficulty or ease of buying and selling Bitcoin?
06:55 | Places to learn how to trade: coinbase.com, poloniex.com, coindesk.com, bitfinance.com, bitcoin.org
08:05 | Bitcoin wallets, public and private keys, and QR Codes
09:25 | The profusion of cryptocurrencies since 2017
09:50 | What determines the value of a cryptocurrency
10:00 | ICO’s, Initial Coin Offerings
10:50 | Can anyone start their own cryptocurrency?
12:05 | The crypto-bust and Warren Buffet’s investment advice
12:30 | Do cryptocurrencies make transactions untraceable?
13:40 | How will the IRS tax capital gains captured via cryptocurrency?
14:45 | Will Bitcoin itself begin submitting 1099’s to the IRS?
15:20 | The use of technology for good and ill
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18min
July 30, 2018 Trusting the Blockchain
Robert J. Marks and Will Fullerton discuss what changes await as we enter the implementation phase of a foundational technology: blockchain. While China is making a multi-billion dollar investment, IBM is betting on countless blockchain projects. And by promising to disintermediate financial institutions, blockchain holds the promise of radically reducing obstacles and overhead from human transactions. Still, challenges remain to Read More ›
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July 30, 2018 Trusting the Blockchain
Robert J. Marks and Will Fullerton discuss what changes await as we enter the implementation phase of a foundational technology: blockchain. While China is making a multi-billion dollar investment, IBM is betting on countless blockchain projects. And by promising to disintermediate financial institutions, blockchain holds the promise of radically reducing obstacles and overhead from human transactions. Still, challenges remain to…
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