#661 – Did Google create artificial intelligence? (with Jimmy Akin)

The Counsel of Trent

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In this episode Trent and Jimmy examine the claims of a former engineer at Google that one of their chatbots had become self-aware and was now a person and discuss the broader question of artificial intelligence.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.
0:10.6	Is Johnny 5 alive?
0:12.6	And if he is alive, does he need to be baptized?
0:15.6	Go to Sunday school.
0:17.4	Could a computer become conscious, self-aware?
0:19.4	Could it have a soul?
0:22.1	Could there be truly artificial intelligence?
0:24.7	That's all I want to talk about today here on the Council of Trend Podcast.
0:28.1	I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.
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0:48.4	Definitely go and check it out at Trenthornpodcast.com.
0:52.6	And joining me today is Senior Apologist Jimmy Aiken at Catholic Answers.
0:57.0	And we're going to talk about artificial intelligence, especially in light of a story
1:02.6	that broke a few months ago, but one that I definitely have been fascinated by and others
1:07.2	and concerned by.
1:09.5	And that is a story about an engineer, a former engineer at Google claiming that one of
1:15.0	the company's artificially intelligent, quote unquote, chatbots may be self-aware and
1:21.6	be a person.
1:24.2	So we're going to talk about that, but Jimmy, welcome back to the podcast.
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