Mind Matters

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00:46 | Introduction; Dr. John Lennox01:47 | Trans-humanism03:00 | Kurzweil and Human Enhancement 06:24 | Chips and Biometrics07:35 | Trans-humanism and Gnosticism09:25 | Nothing New Under The Sun11:15 | More Than Exceptional13:50 | Forthcoming Book14:30 | Economy and Personal Security

Show Notes 00:46 | Introduction; Dr. John Lennox 01:47 | Trans-humanism 03:00 | Kurzweil and Human Enhancement 06:24 | Chips and Biometrics 07:35 | Trans-humanism and Gnosticism 09:25 | Nothing New Under The Sun 11:15 | More Than Exceptional 13:50 | Forthcoming Book 14:30 | Economy and Personal Security

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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 01:00 | Roger Penrose – The Emperor’s New Mind and Shadows of the Mind 01:30 | Meet Eric Read More ›

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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

01:00 | Roger Penrose – The Emperor’s New Mind and Shadows of the Mind01:30 | Meet Eric Holloway04:03 | Faster and faster computers and the Church-Turing thesis04:27 | Deterministic and Non-deterministic Turing Computation06:08 | The halting problem06:50| Past states, future states, and the inability to be purposeful07:20 | Free will08:10 | Axioms09:20 | Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem10:30 | Solomonoff Induction10:55 | Kolmogorov Complexity11:30 | Algorithmic Information Theory12:40 | Consciousness and Qualia13:40 | Ray Kurtzwell and transferring consciousness

01:00 | Eric Holloway Introduction16:20 | Fold It, a showdown between AI and amateurs18:10 | Jay Richards on crowd-sourcing bean counting in The Human Advantage19:45 | Creativity and Solmonoff Induction20:05 | Amazon Turk, or “where you get your crowd”20:55 | Algorithms of the gaps and people in the loop24:25 | What Jobs Are Safe From AI?26:15 | Moravec Paradox27:20| Singularity27:51 | Sigmoid Curve28:25 | The Journal of Irreproducible Results29:00 | The A.I. Peak29:45| Moore’s Law20:30 | Future Forecast

The topic of Natural and Artificial Intelligence can be discussed from a number of viewpoints, including philosophically, technically and theologically. Our guest today, Dr. John Lennox, can address AI from all of these points of view. We’ll explore his multi-spectral perspective today on Mind Matters. Show Notes 01:00 | Introduction; Dr. John Lennox 01:50 | Downloading Immortality 03:44 | Non-algorithmic…

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The topic of Natural and Artificial Intelligence can be discussed from a number of viewpoints, including philosophically, technically and theologically. Our guest today, Dr. John Lennox, can address AI from all of these points of view. We’ll explore his multi-spectral perspective today on Mind Matters. Show Notes 01:00 | Introduction; Dr. John Lennox 01:50 | Downloading Immortality 03:44 | Non-algorithmic Read More ›

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The topic of Natural and Artificial Intelligence can be discussed from a number of viewpoints, including philosophically, technically and theologically. Our guest today, Dr. John Lennox, can address AI from all of these points of view. We’ll explore his multi-spectral perspective today on Mind Matters. Show Notes 01:17 | Introduction; Dr. John Lennox 03:34 | What is your Bacon number? Read More ›

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The topic of Natural and Artificial Intelligence can be discussed from a number of viewpoints, including philosophically, technically and theologically. Our guest today, Dr. John Lennox, can address AI from all of these points of view. We’ll explore his multi-spectral perspective today on Mind Matters. Show Notes 01:17 | Introduction; Dr. John Lennox 03:34 | What is your Bacon number?…

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How can business intelligence based data analytics help medical centers in developing countries like Uganda operate more efficiently? We continue our discussion today, on Mind Matters. Show Notes 00:40 | Introduction; Dr. Peter Kulaba 01:15 | The pronunciation of Uganda 02:20 | How data analytics changed Ugandan medicine 11:09 | Making forecasts with business intelligence 12:15 | Graduate work in Read More ›

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How can business intelligence based data analytics help medical centers in developing countries like Uganda operate more efficiently? We continue our discussion today, on Mind Matters.

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00:40 | Introduction; Dr. Peter Kulaba01:15 | The pronunciation of Uganda02:20 | How data analytics changed Ugandan medicine 11:09 | Making forecasts with business intelligence12:15 | Graduate work in information science14:50 | What motivates you?16:24| The mission and calling16:50 | Conclusion

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