Posted on 09/16/2023 1:36:41 AM PDT by spirited irish
Thinking machines that are being built in a 50-square-mile speck of dirt we call Silicon Valley by a few hundred men (and a handful of women) who write in a language only they and computers can speak. And whether we understand what it is they are doing or not, we are largely left to the whims of their creation. We don’t have a say in the ethics behind their invention. We don’t have a say over whether it should even exist in the first place. “We’re creating God,” one AI engineer working on large language models (LLMs) recently told me. “We’re creating conscious machines.”
Already, we’ve seen creative AIs that can paint and draw in any style imaginable in mere seconds. LLMs can write stories in the style of Ernest Hemingway or Bugs Bunny or the King James Bible while you’re drunk with peanut butter stuck in your mouth. Platforms that can construct haikus or help finish a novel or write a screenplay. We’ve got customizable porn, where you can pick a woman’s breast size or sexual position in any setting—including with you.
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Idiots. God isn’t “created”.
The threat of AI may be overstated. The biggest AI threat is to internet search sites, because AI can search through a tremendous amount of search information and you never have to look at an ad. This destroys the Google business model. Open source AI can also get around the deranking of websites.
True. But the 'god' of this world is a created being. It's him, the spirit of death and hell, they will worship.
That has never worked out well for those beings. Lucifer and 1/3 of the angels were cast out. Babel fell and mankind was scattered. The prophets of Baal were consumed by fire.
I wonder what Mary Shelley would think of this. Will the AI creation turn on its Prometheus?
Yes it will. That's because AI will become a high tech instrument through which elemental spirits will speak and control the minds of the godless. In past ages, behind stone and wood idols were elemental spirits. So now they will be behind AI.
Very apt depiction!
All true, but Satan and his host are determined as ever to see as many souls as possible enter hell for eternity.
Amen.
And this talk of creating 'God' (capital G) is a lot of hyperbole and exaggeration.
Something amazing and outrageous--perhaps both good and/or evil--may come from AI (at this point we can only speculate as to what direction it will take), but no one is actually thinking about giving birth to a universe-creating being like "Jehovah."
Scientists are just pushing the limits of what we can currently imagine.
I think it's an exciting time to be alive. And it will end just as Jehovah has planned.
Angry people who reject the God of righteousness will be left to their own devices and those who seek God and his righteousness will be gathered to himself.
Of course, it looks like the manure will hit the fan in the meantime.;-)
“We’re creating God,” one AI engineer working on large language models (LLMs) recently told me.
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There’s one AI engineer that’s going to hell. Not quick enough, though.
Artificial IntelligenceMayWILL Be Humanity’s Most Ingenious Invention (TO DATE).
Seems to me that AI has to have fresh ideas to grow. Otherwise it simply recycles the same things becoming “inbred”, as it were.
So maybe the human future is to be more like Borg, rather than extinct.
Musk posits that AI will take over unless humans incorporate it into their own bodies and minds (basically saying that "if you can't lick 'em, join 'em). As an aside, I don't necessarily agree with him.
I don't think Musk is considering the religious implications one way or another. Neuralink is just a practical solution.
In fact, Musk's point is that we are already "part man-part machine" by virtue of our interaction with the technology developed in the last 100 years.
Our bodies don't have wings, but we have airports. We don't have mental implants (yet), but we have smartphones.
No machine will ever be conscious. No machine will ever be God. In fact, no machine will ever be human.
They are created by humans and are made to mimic human actions, but they are not human. No machine can ever experience what a human experiences. It’s all simulation. The simulations are pretty good, but are not human.
I often wonder why there is such a driving force that pushes software engineers to try to create an electronic human. Why not just make a useful machine - instead of trying to make a mini me?
That’s it: Required reading for all techies: “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison. In comparison, Steven King is just the literary equivalent of spooky music and dim lighting. One page of Ellison’s short story is worth 1,000 of psycho clowns or angry puppies.
you are exactly right, machines do nearly everything for us already, they just haven’t been fused with us biologically yet.
Matthew 24:24
“For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.”
An electronic god?
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