Non-Computable You: What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will

"Are human beings obsolete? Is that why fewer people are having children? Bob Marks's delightful Non-Computable You offers a well-reasoned rebuttal. So be human, be creative!"

-Gregory Chaitin, algorithmic information theory pioneer and discoverer of Chaitin's number

"Bob Marks's Non-Computable You throws a big bucket of informed cold water on the runaway brushfire of Big-Tech hype that makes up far too much of modern AI."

-Bart Kosko, University of Southern California, author of Fuzzy Thinking and Cool Earth

"This is a shockingly good book! I've listened to Bob Marks lecture over the years against the inflated claims by artificial intelligence's high priests. But this book ties together his critique of AI in a masterful and awe-inspiring way. I'm blown away.

Bob himself is a founder of the field of computational intelligence, that part of AI with an actual record of achievement and with aspirations that are measured and realistic. He is thus ideally poised to demolish the hype and nonsense that infects AI when it moves from computer science to science fiction. "Humans are about to be superseded by machines," "computers will match human intelligence and then exceed it," "soon we'll be uploading ourselves onto digital media and achieving immortality." Marks shows convincingly that all such claims are more implausible than the myths of ancient times, and that in fact they constitute a religious credo for modern materialists.

But Marks's case is not just negative, showing what computers can't do. He also shows how humans have an incredible range of capacities that machines will never match or exceed, everything from the raw feels of sensation to the creativity of our greatest artists and inventors. Marks concludes that humans are exceptional and that they don't share their exceptionalism with machines. If you're going to read only one book on artificial intelligence, this needs to be it!"

-William A. Dembski, author of The Design Inference

"Fascinating and entertaining. I learned a LOT. So will you."

-Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, Pomona College

"It is refreshing to have a writer of Marks's stature write a definitive book on the relationship between artificial intelligence and human consciousness. Marks leaves no stone unturned as he makes clear the limitations of algorithmic computation and Strong AI's inability to ground and account for qualia, semantic meaning, intuitive insight/awareness, free will, and a host of other things that constitute human consciousness and intelligence. His placement of (alleged) emergent mental properties as comparable to getting a pony from horse poop (and, yes, the horse is prior to the poop!) is worth the price of admission. This interesting, widely accessible book sets the record straight and must be read by thinking Christians who don't want to be duped by the extravagant claims of certain scientists."

-J. P. Moreland, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, and co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism