Robert J. Marks II

1950– · American electrical engineering researcher and intelligent design advocate

Topics: artificial intelligence, programming, software engineering

• Software without bias is like water without wet.

  — Robert J. Marks II

• Actual AI is written with computer code such as Python or C++. “Super-intelligent AI” is written using PowerPoint slides.

  — Robert J. Marks II

• Computers are no more able to create information than iPods are capable of creating music.

  — Robert J. Marks II

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

  — Robert J. Marks II

• 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.

  — Robert J. Marks II

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

  — Robert J. Marks II

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

  — Robert J. Marks II

• 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

  — Robert J. Marks II