Marks: Computers Only Compute and Thinking Needs More Than That

Recently, Bill Meyer interviewed Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks on his Oregon-based talk show about "Why computers will never understand what they are doing," in connection with his new book, Non-Computable You: What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will (Discovery Institute Press, 2022). We are rebroadcasting it with permission here as (Episode 194). Meyer began by saying, "I started reading a book over the weekend that I am going to continue to eagerly devour because it cut against some of my preconceived notions": A partial transcript, notes, and Additional Resources follow. Meyer and Marks began by discussion the recent flap at Google where software engineer Blake Lemoine claimed that the AI he was working with was sentient, like a human being. Google has dismissed this claim out of hand and put him on leave. There are so many ways to push back on that claim and it's hard to choose which one to go down.