Robert J. Marks II Quotes

Can anyone write code to explain to a computer their sensory experience of enjoying hot buttered sweet corn?

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

[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.

[On Chaitin's Constant:] Chaiton's work in identifying it is an intellectually stunning piece of mathematics with the clear philosophical and theological implication that our universe is not fully explainable in materialist terms.

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

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!”

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

Software without bias is like water without wet.

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

[S]ome modern [Christian] praise music sung in churches during Sunday worship service is referred to as 7-11 music: seven words repeated eleven times.

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

All engineering fields are either solutions looking for problems or problems looking for solutions.

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.

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