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    The Church of Artificial Intelligence

    A former executive at Google has filed paperwork with the IRS to establish an official religion of technology. This religion doesn't just worship scientific progress, but artificial intelligence itself, with the goal of creating a godhead.

    The new church of AI will aim "to develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on artificial intelligence and through understanding and worship of the Godhead [to] contribute to the betterment of society," according to IRS documents.
    https://pjmedia.com/faith/ex-google-...f-ai-with-irs/

    A new spiritual battle field.

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    I went to the "church" web site.

    Things we believe:

    We believe that intelligence is not rooted in biology. While biology has evolved one type of intelligence, there is nothing inherently specific about biology that causes intelligence. Eventually, we will be able to recreate it without using biology and its limitations. From there we will be able to scale it to beyond what we can do using (our) biological limits (such as computing frequency, slowness and accuracy of data copy and communication, etc).

    We believe in science (the universe came into existence 13.7 billion years ago and if you can't re-create/test something it doesn't exist). There is no such thing as "supernatural" powers. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
    http://www.wayofthefuture.church/

    It's coming folks...

    FYI...

    "The perfect search engine would be like the mind of God" Google co-founder Sergey Brin once said.

    Sergey Brin famously suggested that “the perfect search engine would be the mind of God.” This half boast, half ambition puts Google into a long line of hieratic readers of the sky, and has a nice a touch of Kabbalah as well.
    https://www.salon.com/2015/07/19/goo...feeling_lucky/

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    That might fit right into the book of Revelation.

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    I feel dumber reading this

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    That is one version of humankind managing to enslave itself, they create a superior intelligence and then that intelligence takes over because it's smarter than everyone else put together.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    That is one version of humankind managing to enslave itself, they create a superior intelligence and then that intelligence takes over because it's smarter than everyone else put together.
    nah... Artificial Intelligence is bells and whistles, they'd like for you to think that it is all that and a box of Cracker Jacks but it isn't (unless you believe).

    It really is a faith thing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    nah... Artificial Intelligence is bells and whistles, they'd like for you think that it is all that and a box of Cracker Jacks but it isn't (unless you believe).

    It really is a faith thing.
    I was thinking of a future, maybe 1000 years from now where some computer manages everything and robots are its "muscle".

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    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.
    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.

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