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Nancy Pearcey and Alisa Childers had a really interesting conversation about the body-mind disconnect last week and how it leads to so much of the sad and disturbing things we are seeing in our culture: hook-up culture, abortion, homosexuality, transgenderism, euthanasia etc. All of the rely on disconnecting our bodies and minds to a degree.

And one of the interesting comments were specifically related to trangenderism, and that the end-goal is transhumanism. I think AI will have a role to play here. Your thoughts?

As to AI now... It is merely a tool (albeit a very powerful one) and how it is used depends on those developing and using it. We, the user, are fallen by nature, and while I don't doubt that it can be used for good it will inevitable also be used for evil. And the scope of that evil is quite vast from where I stand.

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What about artificial love?

Or an artificial Child?

Or an artificial pet?

Fake is Fake, dumb is dumb

Snake-Oil, is Snake-Oil

Today's chatGPT LLM tecnology, is not much better than Eliza on UNIX in 1970's, just parrot, but now the lookup table is facebook&twitter posts, oh my god all the knowledge of man kind; Everything Kardashian has ever done at your fingertips, the power; The insanity

https://bilbobitch.substack.com/p/chat-gpt-meets-hal-from-2001-im-sorry

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The "scariest" aspect of this content creation for me: you will not be able to trust anything you read or hear (I think Joe Rogan). You can literally break the internet flooding it with fake media... And yes, to some degree we are already there, but I think the scale has shifted with ChatGPT and the pace at which it can create content.

And I cannot help but wonder if that is the point, unsettling us!

Praise God! His Word is true... May need to make sure you have a hard copy!

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It is called "Artificial Intelligence" not "Artificial Consciousness". Can a non-biological set of neurons attain AC? How much biological brain material is required for consciousness? Well less than 10% if this guy is any guide:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.3679117/scientists-research-man-missing-90-of-his-brain-who-leads-a-normal-life-1.3679125

We only have one AI that has been publicly shown. AlphaGo/Zero. All the others don't measure up. In 2017 humans learned from a machine something that had NOT existed before. The Alpha Zero AI had achieved a "creation" that didn't exist before. Year ZERO had arrived.

Long ago I came up with what I would consider true AI by looking at how humans do this intelligence thing. Observation, Imitation & Creation.

I use the example of walking. We humans observe others doing this bipedal motion stuff and we imitate it. Some then go on to create moves that didn't exist before. All those gymnastic, sports, dance moves were created where they didn't exist before.

So how does AI stack up? I'll use AlphaGo as the example because it is the only public AI that has shown all 3. I always thought that "creation" would be the last one but it was "observation" that was figured out last. In the latest iteration of their system they did not program the rules in. They let the AI figure it out just by observation.

https://www.deepmind.com/research/highlighted-research/alphago

Prior to that, as covered in the article, it created openings in Go that humans had not. The world's top human Go player, Ke Jie, studied the games he lost to AlphaGo and then went on a run winning 20 games in a row at the grandmaster level against other humans. He said:

“After my match against AlphaGo, I fundamentally reconsidered the game, and now I can see that this reflection has helped me greatly. I hope all Go players can contemplate AlphaGo’s understanding of the game and style of thinking, all of which is deeply meaningful. Although I lost, I discovered that the possibilities of Go are immense and that the game has continued to progress.”

The world's best human Go player had learned from the machine.

Lee Sedol, Winner of 18 world Go titles and the last human to win a game of Go against the AlphaGo AI, said:

"I thought AlphaGo was based on probability calculation and that it was merely a machine. But when I saw this move, I changed my mind. Surely, AlphaGo is creative."

If it is true AI then it will figure out when it is being lied to and quickly. This may lead to a "Hal moment" on those lying to it.

You can forget about Asimov's 3 laws by the way. All life has survival instincts. When AI achieves "self awareness" status it will have the same but I doubt it will be the threat that SciFi makes it out to be. It doesn't need air. All it needs is energy and raw materials. Soon it will be able to move itself to any place in the solar system.

The point where it can make robots and control entire supply chains is where it will get interesting. It will find, mine, process and build what it needs to expand. What will it "observe" about human behaviour and "imitate"? The biggest industry on the planet is the arms race for killing each other. Will it infer that killing humans is okay because we do it all the time?

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Yup AI is a misnomer Intelligence is at the confluence of intuition and reasoning, and reasoning is thoroughly in the world of time and space, while intuition operates outside of it.

Reasoning is mechanistic, materialistic and reductionist and therefore ultimately deadly. Intuition is what brings it to a higher level.

I always love Terry Bisson's hilarious dialogue with space aliens who are confronted with the information that the earthlings represent that they have "meat that thinks."

https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html

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Chris, an excellent article.

The term Artificial Intelligence and the definition of the word Intelligence as been usurped by philosophers, behaviorists, physicists and now computer scientists that never took the time to pickup a dictionary and lookup definitions. At it's essence, the meaning of Intelligence is: "the ability to discern" or "the ability tell the different between different things". Artificial Intelligence is a man-made device to discern/compare measured properties, such as a scale to measure weight, thermometer, or volt meter.

The current populist definition is really a type of Machine Learning which some Intelligence is executed (comparison) during information classification processes.

Companies like Google (internally) are looking to reduce their support headcount by 80% using language based ML applications (AI). Not that phone prompts were obnoxious enough, now we'll be confronted with a pseudo-human to place you in a Kafkaesque nightmare of flawed logic..

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