As Chris DeCarlo says in his book, "Building a God" we are close to AGI existing and we should put up some guard rails before we hit the exponential curve of it's expanding intelligence.
The questioning of AI, for Christians, still seems to come down to the idea that living the Christian life should be presented as more than a practical problem or even a theological one. It's not just doing what you should, sometimes, but asking for help from a supernatural God when you can't. AI seems like a solution for practical problems, but one that doesn't necessarily help one live the Christian life.
Another interesting angle to examine is the concept of "model collapse" where successive generations of AI models use too much of their own synthesized data sets (with bias) in their self-training resulting in data output becoming (looking, feeling, sounding, etc.) homogenized.
That is interesting (and concerning). I've heard of that problem but haven't looked into it much. We'll have to push back by putting as much human writing on the internet as we can!
As Chris DeCarlo says in his book, "Building a God" we are close to AGI existing and we should put up some guard rails before we hit the exponential curve of it's expanding intelligence.
Hi Bob, I personally hope AGI is further out in the future than some are claiming. But guardrails are definitely needed, even with the AI we have now.
The questioning of AI, for Christians, still seems to come down to the idea that living the Christian life should be presented as more than a practical problem or even a theological one. It's not just doing what you should, sometimes, but asking for help from a supernatural God when you can't. AI seems like a solution for practical problems, but one that doesn't necessarily help one live the Christian life.
Another interesting angle to examine is the concept of "model collapse" where successive generations of AI models use too much of their own synthesized data sets (with bias) in their self-training resulting in data output becoming (looking, feeling, sounding, etc.) homogenized.
That is interesting (and concerning). I've heard of that problem but haven't looked into it much. We'll have to push back by putting as much human writing on the internet as we can!