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    So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. John's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    Actually that is a scenario that is as old as the theory behind it, as old as computers and robots are. I used to read sci-fi books about that when I was a child and the books were sometimes books from my dad's childhood. To address what you said above, robots may force humans to do the things that they cannot do themselves and thereby prevail, just like totalitarian regimes force their subjects to sustain them today.
    There will always be "a man behind the curtain".

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    There will always be "a man behind the curtain".
    That character could be Satan having managed to manipulate human beings into enslaving themselves.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    That character could be Satan having managed to manipulate human beings into enslaving themselves.
    correct!

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    Creature worshiping the creation..build a robot and then bow to it because it is smarter than you...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quest View Post
    Creature worshiping the creation..build a robot and then bow to it because it is smarter than you...
    Exactly.

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    Way of the Future: A New Church Worships an AI God
    https://futurism.com/way-future-new-...rships-ai-god/


    ...In a rare interview with Wired, his first public interview since the Waymo lawsuit, Levandowski shed more light on his new church, “Way of the Future.”

    Here are some highlights:

    The “Way of the Future” church will have its own gospel called “The Manual,” public worship ceremonies, and probably a physical place of worship.

    The idea behind his religion is that one day — “not next week or next year” — sufficiently advanced artificial intelligence will be smarter than humans, and will effectively become a god.

    “Part of it being smarter than us means it will decide how it evolves, but at least we can decide how we act around it,” Levandowski told Wired. “I would love for the machine to see us as its beloved elders that it respects and takes care of. We would want this intelligence to say, ‘Humans should still have rights, even though I’m in charge.'”

    Levandowski is not the only tech luminary to worry about an super-intelligent AI, which others refer to as “strong AI” or the "Singularity", although he prefers the term “Transition.”


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    You know, it seems as if there are people that really believe that AI can become the way movies portray it, not understanding that something mechanical or electronic can never really have 'life'. Like John said, "What they are doing now is absolving themselves of future responsibility by conditioning the general public to the notion that AI can become "uncontrollable". Google does it all the time when being criticized by vaguely pointing the finger at an algorithm. Thing is, no algorithm runs unless a human tells it how, when and where to run." It's still controlled by the human and there is no 'life'.

    Just shows how stupid people can be in this day and age.

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    .....Other transhumanists also believe that artificial intelligence will grow at an exponential rate, but instead of AI ruling over us, they see a coming merger between humanity and this new super intelligence. In fact, world famous transhumanist Ray Kurzeil believes that this will enable us to “become essentially god-like in our powers”…

    Kurzweil and his followers believe that a crucial turning point will be reached around the year 2030, when information technology achieves ‘genuine’ intelligence, at the same time as biotechnology enables a seamless union between us and this super-smart new technological environment.

    Ultimately the human-machine mind will become free to roam a universe of its own creation, uploading itself at will on to a “suitably powerful computational substrate”. We will become essentially god-like in our powers.

    And prominent transhumanist Mark Pesce takes things even further. He is absolutely convinced that rapidly advancing technology will allow ordinary humans “to become as gods”...

    “Men die, planets die, even stars die. We know all this. Because we know it, we seek something more—a transcendence of transience, translation to incorruptible form.

    An escape if you will, a stop to the wheel. We seek, therefore, to bless ourselves with perfect knowledge and perfect will; To become as gods, take the universe in hand, and transform it in our image—for our own delight. As it is on Earth, so it shall be in the heavens. The inevitable result of incredible improbability, the arrow of evolution is lipping us into the transhuman – an apotheosis to reason, salvationattained by good works.

    Throughout human history, there has always been a desire to create our own gods or to become our own gods.

    But no matter how hard these transhumanists try to run from death, it will eventually find them anyway, and at that point all of their questions about who God really is will be answered once and for all.


    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-1...ificial-intell



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    As I was saying...

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    There will always be "a man behind the curtain".
    Ultimately Satan is behind the curtain....IMHO

    But I get it..you mean no matter how 'smart' robots get someone is programing them...

    So technically there will always be satan behind the man behind the deception....

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