Artificial Intelligence exhibits language abilities

it wasn't trained on, what are called emergent abilities.

The Alabama Supreme Court rules that embryos are people too, shaking up the

infertility industry.

And Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito saw his prediction about religious

dissenters from same-sex marriage come true this week.

These are stories we'll discuss today on the Think Biblically weekly cultural update.

We'll also address some of your questions.

I'm your host Scott Ray.

And I'm your co-host Sean McDow.

And this is the Think Biblic week of cultural update brought to you by

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University.

Sean's story number one is a remarkable story about Amazon's new artificial

intelligence model exhibiting capabilities it wasn't trained to do.

And its founders are calling these emergent abilities.

So tell us a little bit more about this story and why is it so important.

Yeah, this story is fascinating because you have this new Amazon AI model that according

to researchers who built it is exhibiting language abilities

it wasn't trained on. So in other words there seems to be this artificial

intelligence system

that is going beyond what it was built for

and it seems to be the case that even the designers

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