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Mind Matters
By Discovery Institute Center on Natural and Artificial IntelligenceSociety & CultureTechnologyPhilosophyNatural Sciences
Mind Matters episodes
- What 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, Read More ›Source16 min
- What Humans Do That A.I. Can’tAI 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 ›Source19 min
- What Humans Do That A.I. Can’tAI 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…Source19 min
- 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
- 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.
18 min - Non-Algorithmic MindWhat 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 ›Source18 min
- Nonalgorithmic 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
18 min - 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 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
18 min - Bitcoin and the Keys to Cryptocurrency SecurityEveryone 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 ›Source18 min
- Trusting the BlockchainRobert 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 ›Source18 min
- Trusting the BlockchainRobert 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…Source18 min
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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…
the applications and challenges presented by intelligent agents and their algorithms. Episode notes and archives available at mindmatters.ai/podcast.
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