Will machines someday replace attorneys, physicians, computer programmers, and world leaders? What about composers, painters, and novelists? Will tomorrow’s supercomputers duplicate and exceed humans? Are we just wetware, natural computers doomed to obsolescence by tomorrow’s ultra-powerful artificial intelligence? In "Non-Computable You: What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will", Robert J. Marks II answers these and other fascinating questions with his trademark blend of whimsy and expertise. Catch a glimpse of the geniuses behind today’s AI—their foibles, follies, and friendships—as told by someone on the inside. Under the author’s steady and winsome guidance, learn about the exciting possibilities for artificial intelligence, but also hear how many of the heady claims for AI are provably overblown. Marks shows why there are some powers AI will never possess, no matter what. These powers belong to another—to non-computable you.

"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

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