A.I. will solve all our problems.
That statement is a problem.
Give me a minute to explain.
More and more information comes out weekly about artificial intelligence, and not all of it is good.
It seems that AI can misdiagnose a problem creating “hallucinations,” meaning, AI is making stuff up. In one case, professors staffed a fake company with artificial agents. The AI agents were placed in an office to work together. The result was, “researchers wrote that agents are plagued with a lack of common sense, weak social skills, and a poor understanding of how to navigate the internet.”
From The Free Press, comes this headline, “AI will destroy what it means to be human. Are we ready?” To make matters worse, it seems that artificial intelligence researchers ran a secret experiment on Reddit users to make them change their minds and the results were creepy. Perhaps when it comes to intelligence we should lean into the biblical, not the artificial.
Thanks for spending this minute with me, Dr. Mark Eckel.
Articles referenced (hyperlinks above):
1. https://www.thefp.com/p/ai-will-change-what-it-is-to-be-human
2. https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-researchers-ran-a-secret-experiment-on-reddit-users-to-see-if-they-could-change-their-minds-and-the-results-are-creepy
Mark Eckel (MA English, ThM Old Testament, PhD Social Science Research) is Executive Director of the Center for Biblical Integration, Liberty University.
“Give Me a Minute” is an ongoing effort to simply, clearly, and quickly explain aspects of true Truth.
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