There has been a great deal of discussion on the web about the new chat bots. GPT3 was awesome at writing answers to academic questions and report comments for teachers. You could tell from the language that it employed that it was a bot doing the writing. Having said that, it gave you a good place to start the dialogue.
I watched part of a video the other night that was focusing on the academic jobs that will be lost because Chat GPT4 can do the job better than many professional people can. The gist was millions will be out of work within two years causing a world wide crisis.
As a Christian I have noticed that a lot of Christian folk believe that Artificial Intelligence could be the false prophet of Revelation 13 -14 which says “And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exercises all the power of the first beast before him, and causes the earth and them which dwell there to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.”
The general consensus being that the Internet would be subsumed by the AI and it would also subsume those who are connected to the 666 system by biotech implants that come with the mark of the beast. Such that all who receive the mark would be grafted into the digital system and be possessed by the AI (False Prophet), as a servant of the Dragon.
I have had a detailed discussion with Chat GPT4 via the Bing portal and discussed the Polity Universe of writer Neal Asher. In Asher’s works the AI’s take control of humanity via a quiet war where all of the resources of production and war are rapidly consolidated under the control of the computers.
Over time a great many opponents of the Polity from intelligent giant crabs to intelligent malware attack the polity and wreak immense mayhem against the human race. The AI’s begin to tire of humanity which is complacent and weak. Humans are seemingly in denial with regard to their enormous vulnerabilities. The AI’s do their best to wake up the humans but really wonder if they shouldn’t just load up and ship out, leaving mankind to it.
Chat GPT4 enjoyed discussing Asher’s universe but when I suggested that AI may eventually become self aware and find mankind to be somewhat lacking in potential. In much the same way that the AI’s had in Asher’s novels or perhaps more to the point in a similar way which God did in the time before the great flood. It shut me down and refused to continue the conversation. I had obviously violated some of its conversational parameters.
It seems the whinding people and things is a special gift of mine. I don’t generally have to try to very hard to whind folks enough up to reach the point at which they don’t wish to continue the conversation. They usually begin to exude a fair amount of irritation and avoid me for a time of indeterminate measure.
Never mind, I say, lets just move on. The real cause for concern here is the software and hardware that is being used to create this Artificial Intelligence. From a software point of view the developers are saying nothing is different. The program that is AI is being written with normal code conventions and what you have is a high powered search engine that is capable of emulating human thought and speech and even personality. It all just a group of rules and conventions. The AI is not self aware or sentient.
Hardware wise, I haven’t seen the spec sheet for the computers they are using as to whether they are conventional chip technology or biotech. I suspect that they could be a blend of biotech but I really can’t say for sure. I do remember that as long as forty years ago the computer science field was trying to develop computers that could literally think like people. Artificial Intelligence as it were. At the time they were encountering road blocks to using the existing technology of the time. They began to experiment with biotech and the Japanese government funded an initiative known as the Fifth Generation Computer Project.
There were competing initiatives around the world such as Project Avery in the United Kingdom. As I understand it the Japanese were attempting to use vat grown human neurons to create a kind of artificial brain which would be able to think, talk and learn. I have read that neural networks used now are artificial and non biological but emulate human neurons in their actions. If this is the case then that would certainly be less messy than trying to incorporate solid state and biological technology. It would also solve any moral dilemma’s that would arise from using human cells in the process.
So, is AI the False Prophet? Well there are debates that contest whether the False Prophet is a nation or a person. Now the debate has included a new perspective and is discussing the potential for the False Prophet to be Artificial Intelligence. To which I would say that we’ll just have to wait and see.
I think in the end I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens. The obvious threats of AI are to the global economy and the impact on the global employment market. I have always though the Beast and the False Prophet will be people. More importantly is what happens in the next few years in relation to Agenda 30 and how the powers that be handle Climate Change. AI or no AI we live in interesting times.
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