Non-Computable You Supplementary Materials

Figures and Pictures

Figure 2.1. Nikola Tesla
Figure 3.1. Play the “Choose a Random Phrase” game! Choose randomly between columns A, B and C with no repeats and you’ll generate an oral report for your Board of Directors. Make the presentation after a high carb lunch when everyone is sleepy and no one will notice it’s all gibberish.
Figure 4.1. My rock star guitar-playing friend Pat Kelley and some of his guitar faces.
Figure 4.2. The AI-generated portrait Edmond de Belamy.
Figure 4.3. Creepy little girl. From left to right: daughter one; daughter two; composite with portions from both daughters; AI-generated portrait with creepy hollow eyes. (These images are the best resolution available for computers used at the time.)
Figure 4.4. Spooky Dude, bottom right.
Figure 4.5. Elsie Wright and a Cottingley Fairy.
Figure 4.6. Frances Griffiths and Cottingley fairies.
Figure 4.7. Montana’s giant grasshopper.
Figure 4.8. A non-existent child with face paint accompanied by a non-existent mutant companion.
Figure 5.1. The hype curve.
Figure 6.1. Sophia the Robot.
Figure 6.2. Emotions. Simple tweaks allow for widely diverse facial expressions.
Figure 6.3. Faces everywhere!
Figure 6.4. More faces!
Figure 6.5. Pixelated version on left; original image on right.
Figure 6.6. Using the world’s worst camera. On the upper left is an original image; upper right is the first reading from the world’s worst camera. On the second row and third rows, additional readings from the world’s worst camera gradually improve the composite image.
Figure 8.1. A Hopfield content addressable memory illustration. Left: A picture of a smiling baby using only white and black pixels. Right: The same picture with only right eye and nose of the baby shown.
Figure 8.2. A layered perceptron neural network
Figure 10.1. XKCD. Gödel is a dangerous guy to question.

Figures and Pictures Credits

Unless listed here, all figures and pictures are credited to the author (Robert J. Marks II)

  • Figure 2.1. Nikola Tesla. “Nikola Tesla, with His Equipment.” Photograph by Dickerson V. Alley, circa 1899, Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
  • Figure 4.1. Guitar faces. Photographs courtesy of Pat Kelley.
  • Figure 4.2. The AI-generated portrait Edmond de Belamy. “Edmond  De Belamy,” Wikimedia Foundation, July 29, 2019. Public domain.
  • Figure 4.5. Elsie Wright and a Cottingley fairy. Photograph by Frances Griffiths, 1917. Public domain.
  • Figure 4.6. Frances Griffiths and the Cottingley fairies. Photograph by  Elsie Wright, 1917. Public domain.
  • Figure 4.7. Montana’s giant grasshopper. Photography by Cole Studio,  1937. Public domain.
  • Figure 4.8. A non-existent person from ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com.
  • Figure 6.1. Sophia the Robot. “Sophia (robot).” Image by ITU Pictures,  June 8, 2017, Wikimedia Commons. CC-BY-SA 2.0 license.
  • Figure 10.1. Gödel is a dangerous guy to question. Cartoon by XKCD. date unknown, https://xkcd.com/468/. Used by permission.