(Favpng, 2017) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Addicted to Chatbots: ChatGPT as Substance D In Philip K. Dick’s brilliant 1977 dystopian science fiction novel, A Scanner Darkly, and … [continue reading]
Author Archives: Robert Hanna
Invasion of the Mind Snatchers, Or, The Easy Solution to the Problem of Chatbots in Higher Education.
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Creative Rage Against the Computing Machine: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Authentic Human Creativity.
“Butlerian Jihad” (Dune Wiki, 2023) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay, either by scrolling to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab, or by going HERE. Creative Rage Against the Computing Machine: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Authentic Human Creativity … [continue reading]
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence and Why It Persists.
A still frame from “I, Robot” (2004, dir. Alex Proyas) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. The Myth of Artificial Intelligence and Why It Persists No digital computing systems or digital technology, no matter how sophisticated or tricked-out with high-tech bells and whistles, … [continue reading]
Hinton & Me: Don’t Pause Giant AI Experiments, Ban Them.
“The Leader of the Luddites” (1812) (Wikipedia, 2023b) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. Hinton & Me: Don’t Pause Giant AI Experiments, Ban Them In an open letter published online in late March 2023, directed not only to the digital technology and AI … [continue reading]
Videre aude! The Weapons Effect and The Banksy Effect.
Guns, Guns, and More Guns (Unknown online source) “Rage, the Flower Thrower/Love is in the Air,” by Banksy [Bethlehem, 2005] (PD, 2020) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. Videre aude! The Weapons Effect and The Banksy Effect By thought-shapers, I mean any or … [continue reading]
Hawking’s Final Theory and The Neo-Organicist Turn.
You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. Hawking’s Final Theory and The Neo-Organicist Turn With [a] top-down [approach] we put humankind back in the center [of cosmological theory], he said. Interestingly, this is what gives us control. (Hawking, as quoted in Hertog, 2023: p. … [continue reading]
How and Why to Perform Uncomputable Functions.
Cantor’s Diagonal Argument for the Existence of Transfinite Numbers (Wikipedia, 2023) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. How and Why to Perform Uncomputable Functions When I look at Gödel’s proof of his undecidability theorem…. [, t]he proof is a soaring piece of architecture, … [continue reading]
Organoid Intelligence? Just Say No.
You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. Organoid Intelligence? Just Say No. Although the artificial intelligence movement, aka AI, has been around for more than 70 years (see, e.g., Turing, 1950), the recent and contemporary furor about AI has been primarily generated by the … [continue reading]
Are There Some Legible Texts That Even The World’s Most Sophisticated Robot Can’t Read?, #3–Legibility, Reading, and The Falsity and Impossibility of Strong AI.
For us it is the circumstances under which he had such an experience that justify him in saying in such a case that he understands, that he knows how to go on….This will become clearer if we interpolate the consideration of another word, namely “reading.”… The use of this word in the ordinary circumstances of … [continue reading]