If I told you that little grey men were invading planet Earth you would probably think I was crazy – unless your name is David Ike.
If I then said that a strategy of the emperor of this invading force was to create beings that looked and behaved like humans but were under his control, you would most likely think I was writing science fiction.
Emperor Lucifer has been at war with humanity for millennia and he has a complex strategy, and a key element of this is to create life. The Lord Jesus Christ created life and the Devil knows that he can never claim victory over the Lord of life if he cannot demonstrate that he too is a creator. He has two incredible plans for achieving this, and neither of them could be executed in previous generations, but they can now. His first plan is to create organic life through gene manipulation and cloning. The second is to develop true artificial intelligence (AI).
We have already seen animals cultured from stem cells in science labs and the age of synthesised edible meat and even spare body parts has arrived. However, this not a genuine act of creation because all these come from original cells that already hold the fragile seed of life. Artificial Intelligence, on the other hand, is something that may well yield a new, yet real, form of ‘life’.
Now I am neither a scientist nor an AI buff, so my grasp of these matters is tenuous at best, but it is a topic that has long interested me. As I understand it, the main idea is that computer scientists and programmers will develop increasing more complex self-learning programmes until a programme itself becomes self-aware and capable of developing itself further without direct human aid. This mysterious, and even mystical, moment has been dubbed The Singularity.
How close is all this? Well, here is a collection of reports that you can read and then decide for yourself: http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/singularity.
Now for two bits of good news!
- Firstly, God created humanity in His image and likeness in that man is a triune being just as God is a trinity. Satan may be able to duplicate physical life, and he may well create artificial intelligence (mind/soul) but he still will not have created the most fundamental and wonderful aspect of God’s human creation, spirit.
- Secondly, all his millennia-long strategic plan cannot give him success because at his moment of greatest self-deluded victory the Lord Jesus will descend from Heaven, wipe out the Devil and his work, and recreate a new Heaven-Earth, the habitation, not of androids or computers or demons, but the eternal dwelling pace of the redeemed!
Next week I will be producing a TruthTalk on this subject instead of a further article.
For the more curious among you, here are some interesting articles and sites:
The real threat of artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence research
Intelligent machines are teaching themselves Quantum Physics
2 thoughts on “Ai-sh, can it be true?”
Eish Chris,
This is a tough message you bring today. It seems like you are suggesting that those who are advancing the principle, the likes of Vinge, Lanier and Penrose, to name a few, are agents of Satan himself. While those who are prepared to highlight the dangers and who are in fact opposed to the science itself are disciples of Christ.
If this technology can be used to assist a paraplegic to walk by allowing the brain and nerves to interface with the programmed intelligence of artificial limbs can it be considered bad? I know it’s a very small leap to a biological adaptation where human intelligence is enhanced by using this technology to alter the neurological functioning of our brains. I’ve read about a research team that are looking at using this to assist people suffering from autism and extreme cases of epilepsy, so again can this biomedical progress be bad?
Your scenario of scientists creating a self-aware program with a built in capacity to think independently and more importantly to learn and to adapt is not only scary, but also seems extremely dangerous.
Anyway, I’m looking forward to your truth talk on this subject. Hopefully you’ll address some of these questions.
Regards
Grant
Hi Grant. I don’t know if I will addressing this in the Q&A on this post because my daughter asks the questions and I don’t pre-prepare my responses. You wrote ‘It seems like you are suggesting that those who are advancing the principle, the likes of Vinge, Lanier and Penrose, to name a few, are agents of Satan himself. While those who are prepared to highlight the dangers and who are in fact opposed to the science itself are disciples of Christ.’ No, I am not suggesting this at all. In fact, men like the ones you refer to (Hawkins, Musk and Gates) are on record as saying that AI might be more dangerous to humankind than the atomic bomb. The scientists developing AI most likely are doing so because they see its potential to benefit mankind, but this does not mean that evil people could not then use it against humankind. Daniel Weld of the university of Washington writes that ‘while the probability that an AI will autonomously decide to assault humanity is remote, the chances are high – near 100 percent – that a terrorist will try to direct an AI system to do so.’