Robert J. Marks II Quotes

If "knowledge puffs up," then we professors are in ever-present danger of having egos resembling threatened blow fish.

Individual self-sovereignty is a load-bearing pillar on which liberty rests.

ChatGPT relies on syntax: the statistics of words in a sentence. People rely on semantics: the meaning of words.''

Engineers actually design things. This is why [many] engineers are interested in the area of intelligent design.

Christians are being subjected to the same “separate but equal” discrimination used to justify discrimination in the old Jim Crow south.

Forecasting the future of technology is risky. Predictions tend to be linear whereas technical advances come in quantum jumps from paradigm shifts. After the second World War, forecasters in electronics [who did not foresee the transistor] would have linearly [and incorrectly] foretasted breakthroughs in better vacuum tube reliability from, for example, improved filament chemistry.

The ultimate success of AI is not due to journal papers, blogs, press releases, forecasts, corporate acquisitions, speculation, or promises. Success is measured by reduction to practice.

[The robot] Sophia has been granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia. And Homer Simpson has been given citizenship in Winnipeg, Ontario. Both decisions are silly. The difference is that the city of Winnipeg acknowledged that their action was a joke.

The better we understand creation and the possibilities of logic and algorithms, the more we see the glory of God.

The best immortality prospect for the materialist looks to be either deep freezing dead bodies until a cure is found, or computer replication of brains in silicon. One won’t work and the other can’t survive a power outage.

Turning a soul into an algorithm is pure nonsense.

If we remove people's non-algorithmic characteristics, we will get a very boring person.

AI [artificial intelligence] is like a toddler with a Ph.D.. It’s really smart, but it still needs to be supervised.

We are more than computers made out of meat. We have a soul, we have a spirit and we have a mind.

Those who believe in the coming of Strong AI argue that non-algorithmic consciousness will be an emergent property as AI complexity ever increases. In other words, consciousness will just happen, as a sort of natural outgrowth of the code’s increasing complexity. Such unfounded optimism is akin to that of a naive young boy standing in front of a large pile of horse manure. He becomes excited and begins digging into the pile, flinging handfuls of manure over his shoulders. “With all this horse poop,” he says, “there must be a pony in here somewhere!” Strong AI proponents similarly claim, in essence, “With all this computational complexity, there must be some consciousness here somewhere!”