Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel
I've been doing some study of the Bible and ran across the problem of child sacrifice. Check it out, as well as this link, and that one.
So maybe the big question isn’t “Will AI take over the world?” Maybe it’s “Has money already done that?” And if that’s the case, then the conversation we need to be having isn’t just...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 2 hours ago
People living 2,000 years ago were immersed in superstition, misinformation, and had a limited understanding of the natural world and the human body. Anything they wrote must be viewed with caution...
Debunking Christianity: Setting the Bible Straight on It’s Flawed Condemnations of Same-Sex Love · 2 hours ago
I fed ChatGPT some ideas and asked it to phrase them all for me: The Monster We Already Serve** We hear it all the time these days: *“AI is the next Frankenstein’s monster.”* A human creation....
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 3 hours ago
That's why sensible folk give cats their own doors which cats don't need opening for them..
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 7 hours ago
But AI is also the glaringly obvious solution to disinformation.
People tend to forget: the developers are in charge of AI, not the other way around. You're assuming...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 8 hours ago
https://uploads.disquscdn.c... I'll just leave it at this.
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 11 hours ago
The dangers of AI are immediate. For instance, AI being used to flood social media with highly convincing fake content (videos, news, social posts) designed to manipulate public opinion...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 17 hours ago
The U.S. is the nation that split the atom, put men on the moon and created the internet. When facing fundamental scientific challenges, Americans mobilize and win. China is already...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 17 hours ago
The dangers of AI are immediate. For instance, AI being used to flood social media with highly convincing fake content (videos, news, social posts) designed to manipulate public opinion or...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 18 hours ago
There is almost certainly no way decisions on AI will be taken "properly", any more than past decisions on building our entire economy on fossil fuels were taken properly. When those...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 18 hours ago
To be fair, religion has had centuries to trigger skepticism, whereas AI just got here, comparatively speaking, and most people are just starting to figure it out.
Sure, but...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 18 hours ago
However what is surprising - to me - is on DC where most have their skepticism full blast in matters of religion, but somehow that skepticism seems to have evaporated on an article...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 18 hours ago
LOL. However what is surprising - to me - is on DC where most have their skepticism full blast in matters of religion, but somehow that skepticism seems to have evaporated on an article that was...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 18 hours ago
Interesting question I haven't seen addressed before: How would we know if AI's solution to a societal problem is morally good or morally bad, given that moral realism is...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 18 hours ago
In fact there is NO INTELLIGENCE in AI if you understand how LLM works.
There is also no intelligence in a human brain if you understand how a single neuron works. Nobody...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 18 hours ago
Exactly — and that’s why the ethical responsibility lies not with the machine, but with its makers.
Only true if "Artificial Intelligence" isn't really...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 19 hours ago
Or maybe AI wrote the article to cover its tracks by leaving enough breadcrumbs for you to convince yourself that it didn't really just obtain sentience. LOL. Hey, it's fun down here in...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 19 hours ago
A virtual lobotomy machine might result from AI demonstrating its superiority so many times that people come to rely on it for guidance without thinking. That would only be a bad thing if AI, on...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 19 hours ago
Some years back I read an AI researcher who characterized AI research as a quest "to make computers act like the ones in movies." (But without the shopworn plot twist of "and then...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 19 hours ago
From the OP:
An artificial-intelligence model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down.
That is...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 19 hours ago
The general hill-climbing strategy with animal training seems to be: try a bunch of things on your animal, and notice the animal's responses. If any of those responses are even slightly in the...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 19 hours ago
Very possibly, if a method exists and is learnable. An AI could test billions of motivational strategies on millions of cats, and converge reliably on (a) method(s) that work(s), if such method(s)...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 19 hours ago
And another point:
the reason AGW was generally replaced with the term Climate Change
Rebranding isn't a solution to the fundamental problem here, which is the fact...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 19 hours ago
Also, to this point:
Even when it is explained [...]
This is where Socratic questioning/dialogue may sometimes help. Many human brains resist being lectured, as brains often...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 19 hours ago
One of those flimsy rationalizations, of course, is Ehrman's appeal to credentials and academic appointments. Which as Carrier explains is self-fulfilling due to policing of academic...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 20 hours ago