Robert J. Marks II Quotes

Computers can only analyze inside the box. Remarkable humans have the meta-ability to go outside ourselves, look back inside, and explore our abilities. We can understand understanding, think about thinking, and … know about the unknowable

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

Those who worship at the feet of materialism often don’t admit to the limitations imposed by their narrow core belief.

Science packages theory, places it on a throne, and honors and protects it much like a queen. Engineers make the queen come down from the throne and scrub the floor. And if she doesn’t work, we fire her.

Emotions that make us human will never be duplicated by a machine. These include compassion, love, empathy, elation, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, pleasure, pride, excitement, embarrassment, regret, jealousy, grief, hope, and faith. Properly defined, creativity, sentience, and understanding are also on the list. These and other non-algorithmic traits are evidence of non-computable you.

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

Any claim that “all religions are true” is like claiming any liquid from a cow, when chilled, goes well with a chocolate chip cookie.

Given enough time, any algorithm performed on a modern-day computer can be done by the programmer with pencil and paper.

Software without bias is like water without wet.

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

AI is just a tool, like electricity or fire. It can be used for good or evil.

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.

[N]on-algorithmic computing in digital silicon is an oxymoron.

Saying the Bible is not a book about science is like saying a cookbook is not a book about chemistry.

[Ray] Kurzweil says that “consciousness is a biological process like digestion, lactation, photosynthesis, or mitosis.” Or, to revise Descartes, “I lactate. Therefore, I think.”