Welcome to Douglas Wilson's Blog and May Blog, presented by Canon Press.

So can demons be uploaded onto Silicon?

September 6, 2023.

Introduction.

It is time for us, you and I, to talk about artificial intelligence.

When you start your car up in the morning, your watch is already telling you how many minutes

we'll take you to get to work.

Maybe you like that feature and maybe it gives you the creeps.

But how are we to think about such things?

Biblically.

Incidentally, if you take note of this picture to the right, I painted it myself.

Well, sort of.

I held the metaphorical brush, so to speak, in that I was the guy who thought up the prompts.

I think I'm pretty good if it's myself that says it, at least for an office.

But then, to be filed under J for Jeepers, we find this kind of thing.

AI Sermon Prep, everybody knows that AI is to be strictly limited to the concordance

and background work of Sermon Prep, the way I do when I use low-cost Bible software.

A lot.

So, we need to distinguish what is called narrow artificial intelligence from what the smart

Johnny's are calling the singularity, which would be connected to artificial general intelligence,

AGI.

This would be the day when your Roomba and your smart refrigerator join up with evil forces

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