Artificial Intelligence
Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture
Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae
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🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Artificial Intelligence and robotics are becoming a part of our everyday lives |
| 0:04.6 | whether we realize it or not whether we like it or not. Our robots and |
| 0:10.8 | artificial intelligence ever going to gain consciousness like human beings and be able to think. |
| 0:17.0 | And perhaps most importantly, how should we think bibically about artificial intelligence and robotics. |
| 0:23.8 | My name is Sean McDowell, |
| 0:25.0 | I'm a professor at Biolu University |
| 0:26.9 | here with my co-host Scott Ray, |
| 0:28.9 | and this is Think Bibbically. |
| 0:30.6 | Scott, I've got a ton of questions for you related to artificial intelligence and robotics. |
| 0:36.7 | One of the most pressing issues today, so let's jump right in and maybe define our terms as we begin. So let's just ask the |
| 0:45.0 | question, what do we mean by artificial intelligence? Well essentially what we mean |
| 0:50.9 | by that, Sean, is it's computers being programmed to mimic human intelligence |
| 0:56.5 | okay that's essentially what it is so that if I think emphasis on the term artificial |
| 1:05.0 | okay because it I don't I think we can make a good argument that it is identical to human intelligence and human |
| 1:11.0 | consciousness things like that. |
| 1:12.6 | That's what's known as strong AI |
| 1:15.3 | to make it virtually indistinguishable from those. |
| 1:18.0 | Okay. |
| 1:19.0 | What's all the weak AI is, I think, |
| 1:21.0 | is I think a more realistic term, which is used to describe efforts to mimic and |
| 1:26.9 | emulate what human intelligence some of the things that human intelligence can do. |
| 1:31.8 | So the words mimic are really important. |
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