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I am concerned as well. I just the opportunities for good outweigh the probabilities of catastrophe. It's ultimately a risk equation for me. The people on your list can have their judgments, a lot of equally smart people will feel differently, and it's up to each of us to apply our own judgments.Okay, but the people I listed are concerned that AI will be a lot more than computers processing information. They are afraid the machine will become self aware and that it can do a much better job than mankind and decided to weed us out. You explain it is easy to put in hard programming but professionals much more advanced that you or me in this field are still very concerned.
I have been called to Interpret the Bible and to handle sensitive revelation and use it to minister to the Church and witness to the earth.
It's not a personal revelation. The Bible only has one true interpretation and I am very accurate to interpreting it and giving it away for free. That "free" part makes me the real deal separate from being the guy who decoded it. I wrote the book in 2013. No one has debunked it yet and no one will.
In short, the Bible has accurately identified all of this end times technology and I have interpreted it's revelation in my book for the layman to read and understand. I do this so people will consider it and when what I said in my book happens, they'll need to give credit to where it it due, the Bible.
So you are a minister. I just want to get that out there for the record. Your work is not scientific in nature, but rather, in interpreting holy texts and communicating to people. That is a fundamentally different skillset that a computer scientist.
You sound like you have quite a bit of pride. You wrote the book? The book on what? The book about the book (the Bible)? I honestly think that's where you argument comes from. Pride is keeping you from maintaining an open mind, and you believe in your own thought process to the point of rationalization. Reread your post. It's all about how you have it all figured out, how you are so smart and will explain things to all the dumb people who just don't understand, and about how you claim to have it all figured out (so I guess you have omniscience? That's probably pretty helpful when you play the lotto...). That's pride if I ever saw it.
Maybe this experiment in computer science will work out well, and maybe it won't. But as someone who has a Masters Degree in computers, the academically-trained engineer in me wants to find out for myself through controlled experimentation. A guy who believes only in his own thoughts prophesizing that "the end is near" isn't really contributing to the discussion. If God wants to wipe us out with AI, then so be it. Who am I to stop him? After all, he's God, so he can do whatever he wants to whenever he wants to. There's not a damn thing I can do about that. However, probably, things are going to work out in a relatively reasonable manner, and more problems will ultimately be solved through continued human ingenuity. I think AI is an important tool in helping us take those next steps.