Robert J. Marks II Quotes

Robots deserve no more human rights than a 3D printer or toaster.

[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.

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

Turning a soul into an algorithm is pure nonsense.

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

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

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

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

There is no foundational mathematical or physical reason the relationship between Pythagorean and tempered western music should exist. It just does. The rich flexibility of the tempered scale and the … bountiful archives of western music are a testimonial to this wonderful coincidence provided by nature.

For the record, I don’t deserve this. But I have lower back pain and don’t deserve that either. (After being listed as one of the twenty most brilliant living Christian Professors.)

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.

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.

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

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