4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | We just know that we're going to get a question about Artificial Intelligence Bill. |
0:16.2 | Here it is. |
0:17.2 | You're Dr. Craig with all the AI hype, several experts stating that we're only a few years |
0:23.3 | from the development of AGI. |
0:26.0 | It's Artificial General Intelligence, which is a hypothetical computer program that can |
0:32.0 | perform intellectual tasks as well as are better than a human. |
0:38.8 | How should Christians react to all of this? |
0:42.0 | And what would it mean for the biblical worldview, Hector and Chile? |
0:48.2 | I have recently begun to read in the area of cognitive science, which is a broader |
0:55.7 | ray of disciplines, that attempt to model the human mind or human brain on a computer. |
1:04.9 | And according to the reading I've done, it has now generally been realized by cognitive |
1:12.2 | scientists that a computational model of the brain is, in fact, incorrect. |
1:21.8 | Computers can mimic certain unconscious or automatic features of human cognition. |
1:30.6 | But it cannot reproduce human inferences that rely upon the meaning of certain sentences, |
1:42.0 | what is called the semantic contents of the propositions being considered. |
1:48.2 | And so I think it's generally recognized now that this computational model of human thinking |
1:57.6 | is inadequate and incomplete, and that therefore we never will be able to have mechanically |
2:06.5 | based minds. |
2:08.6 | This question from Germany, dear Professor William Lane Craig, I'm my great admirer of you |
2:14.9 | in your work. |
2:15.9 | My question is whether one has to reject everything in atheists says, or can one still find parts |
2:23.3 | sympathetic and right, even though this person rejects Jesus Christ? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from William Lane Craig, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of William Lane Craig and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.