Cultural Update: AI's getting more human-like; Alabama ruling on embryos; Analyzing movies biblically

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

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🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Today's topics:Amazon's New AI Model: Amazon's AI model showing emergent language abilities, sparking debates on AI's human-like intelligence.Alabama Supreme Court Ruling on Embryos: Examined the ruling that embryos are human beings, affecting the infertility industry.Justice Alito's Prediction on Religious Dissenters: Addressed how a prediction by Justice Alito regarding the treatment of religious dissenters to same-sex marriage has materialized.Analyzing Movies Biblically: Tips for an...

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0:00.0	Artificial Intelligence exhibits language abilities
0:04.9	it wasn't trained on, what are called emergent abilities.
0:08.6	The Alabama Supreme Court rules that embryos are people too, shaking up the
0:11.9	infertility industry.
0:13.0	And Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito saw his prediction about religious
0:16.7	dissenters from same-sex marriage come true this week.
0:21.0	These are stories we'll discuss today on the Think Biblically weekly cultural update.
0:24.7	We'll also address some of your questions.
0:26.8	I'm your host Scott Ray.
0:28.1	And I'm your co-host Sean McDow.
0:30.1	And this is the Think Biblic week of cultural update brought to you by
0:32.8	Talbot School of Theology at Biola University.
0:35.8	Sean's story number one is a remarkable story about Amazon's new artificial
0:40.6	intelligence model exhibiting capabilities it wasn't trained to do.
0:46.6	And its founders are calling these emergent abilities.
0:51.8	So tell us a little bit more about this story and why is it so important.
0:55.0	Yeah, this story is fascinating because you have this new Amazon AI model that according
1:02.0	to researchers who built it is exhibiting language abilities
1:06.2	it wasn't trained on. So in other words there seems to be this artificial
1:11.8	intelligence system
1:13.8	that is going beyond what it was built for
1:17.4	and it seems to be the case that even the designers
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