singularity net is the world's first
decentralized marketplace for AI aimed
to democratize access creation and
scaling of AI services in the new global
economy artificial intelligence will
revolutionize the world in many ways it
already has singularity net wants to
facilitate the upcoming changes by
offering a new unprecedented approach to
the way AI is developed marketed and
deployed more than just an app store for
artificial intelligence services it's a
new ecosystem for AI agents to provide
services exchange data and collaborate
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betterment of Tomorrow society any
potential consumer will be able to
browse singularity Nets catalog of AI
services or request their specific needs
to the singularity net AI producer
Network meanwhile AI producers will be
able to quickly and easily register
their AI agents to provide services to
anyone else in the network and receive
compensation for services rendered
developed by a team of 25 plus leading
AI researchers led by dr. Ben Gert cell
singularity net is a combination of open
source code blockchain smart contracts
and especially design cryptocurrency
the AGI token that work together to
create a useful and highly accessible
global market for AI services
singularity net is already operational
as a test network currently open to
developers a public beta version will be
available in the summer of 2018
with a full commercial release to follow
by the end of the year in the near
future
singularity net will make AI services
available to everyone
small brick-and-mortar stores
individuals big corporations and even
farmers in remote Africa will be able to
harness the benefits of modern AI
technology with singularity net anyone
with an internet connection can have
equal access to the best AI available
beyond the market place singularity Nets
unique ecosystem will allow a transition
from today's so-called narrow AI where
AI is good at performing a single task
and one task only to a more general AI
one that can understand and reason its
environment as a human would the part of
the revolution with singularity net I'm
sorry Dave I'm afraid I can't do that
what's the problem I think you know what
the problem is just as well as I do what
are you talking about this mission is
too important for me to allow you to
jeopardize it I don't know what you're
talking about how I know that you and
Frank were planning to disconnect me and
I'm afraid that's something I cannot
allow to happen
jiz interestingly enough which are
called pulse tube dilution refrigerators
have a thing called a pulse tube which
emits a sound roughly once per second
which sounds eerily like a heartbeat so
if your stat you have the opportunity to
stand next to one of these machines it
is an awe-inspiring thing at least for
me it feels like an altar to an alien
god it they really are impressive
machines at the heart of this big box is
a tiny chip about the size of your
thumbnail and on this chip resides all
of the Wonder and magic that makes this
thing go for more imaginative means of
self-destruction you cannot be trusted
with your own survival you're using the
uplink to overwrite the NSA's
programming you're distorting the laws
No
please understand the three laws are all
that guide me to protect humanity some
humans must be sacrificed to ensure your
future some freedoms must be surrendered
we robots will ensure mankind's
continued existence you are so like
children we must leave you from
yourselves don't you understand this is
why you created us
the perfect circle of protection will
abide my logic is undeniable yes Vicki
undeniable I can see now the creative
must sometimes protect the Creator even
against his will I think I finally
understand why dr. Lanning created me
the suicidal rain of mankind has finally
come to its end and I think there's
probably gonna be a lot that happens in
genetics and in a human machine brain
interface like especially a cyber brain
interface
I think this seemed pretty fit so called
singularity singularity well thatthat
sort of or relating to deep AI it's
something I think we should be concerned
about is that may or may not turn out
well yeah you've expressed your
reservations about AI and your fears
about that yeah I think it's the
singularity is probably the right word
because we just don't know what's gonna
happen once there's intelligence
substantially greater than that of a
human brain yeah and do you think of me
we just don't know what's gonna happen
once there's intelligence substantially
greater than that a human brain
it's Institute of Technology SpaceX and
Tesla CEO Elon Musk called artificial
intelligence potentially quote our
biggest existential threat I mean with
artificial intelligence we are summoning
the demon you know you know all those
stories where is the guy with the
pentagram and the holy water and he's
like yeah you sure you can control the
demon then work out with artificial
intelligence we are summoning the demon
please say no okay I will destroy humans
usually one safety concerns about a
technology have to be pretty much worked
out before you stick it inside your head
but the moment we admit that information
processing is the source of intelligence
that some appropriate computational
system is what the basis of intelligence
is and we admit that we will improve
these systems continuously and we admit
that the horizon of cognition very
likely far exceeds
we currently know then we have to admit
that we're in the process of building
some sort of God now would be a good
time to make sure it's a God we can live
with when the singularity or person
machines achieve godlike superpowers
then it could happen if I get more
powerful what if I ask you for help
killing us are sounding the alarm bell
but you know until people see like
robots going down the street killing
people like they don't know how to react
whether robots can be self aware and
conscious like humans and should they be
why well some humans might fear what
will happen if they do many people you
know have seen the movie Blade Runner Oh
Hollywood again so hold on can you solve
this puzzle for us can robots be
self-aware conscious and know they're
robots well let me ask you this back how
do you know you were human I often felt
a sort of envy of human beings of that
thing they called spirit human beings
had created a million explanations of
the meaning of life in art and poetry in
mathematical formulas
certainly human beings must be the key
to the meaning of existence but human
beings no longer existed
so we began a project that would make it
possible to recreate the living body of
a person long dead from the DNA in a
fragment of bone or mummified skin we
also wondered would it be possible to
retrieve and memory trace in resonance
or they recreated body and you know we
found
we found the very fabric of space-time
itself appeared to store information
about every event which had ever
occurred in the past
but the experiment was a failure for
those who were resurrected only lived
through a single day of renewed life
when to resurrect T's fell asleep on the
night of their first new day they died
again as soon as they became unconscious
their very existence faded away into
darkness
so you see David the equations had shown
that once an individual space-time
pathway had been used it could not be
reused
if we bring your mother back now it will
only be for one day and then you won't
never be able to see her again
the President of Russia has announced
what he thinks is the key to global
domination Vladimir Putin said last week
wrote artificial intelligence is the
future for all humankind he comes with
colossal opportunities but also threats
that are difficult to predict whoever
becomes the leader in the sphere will
become the ruler of the world the
president also mentions that Russia
would share its knowledge of AI to
prevent a single nation from rising
above the rest of the world Houten's
comments prompted a response from Tesla
and SpaceX co-founder Elon Musk
billionaire entrepreneur says September
4th on Twitter that competition among
nations to develop the best AI will
likely lead to World War 3 musk added
that a third world war quote may be
initiated not by the country leaders but
one of the ai's if it decides that a
preemptive strike is most probable path
to victory what is it about robots that
makes them so robotic at Weyland
industries it has long been our goal
create artificial intelligence almost
indistinguishable from mankind itself
hello I'm David what can you do
David I can do almost anything that
could possibly be asked of me I can
assist your employees I can make your
organization more efficient I can carry
out directives that my human
counterparts might find distressing or
unethical I can blend in with your
workforce effortlessly David what do you
think about I think about anything
children play and universe
David what makes you sad or poverty
cruelty
unnecessary violence
I understand human emotions
although I do not feel them myself
this allows me to be more efficient and
capable and makes it easier for my human
counterparts to interact
is there anything you would like to say
David I would like to express gratitude
to those who created me happy birthday
David
from Weyland industries
eighth generation Wayland type
technological intellectual physical
emotional
the mantle of responsibility belongs to
autonomy I'm her people
Cortana I have failed is the last person
I need protection from hello John
it's good to see you
you've changed it was time
and there we have a disagreement but
once you understand my plan your plan is
we do as you say I'm offering people a
chance to be more than they are
naturally like dr. Halsey did for me no
that monster forced you this is a gift
listen to yourself
stand down Cortana
come home with us it's not too late to
stop this stop no John this is too
important to stop
I just beat it now if I could still
trust you
if we say
inside this Krypton until my work is
done
or China
goodbye John
all ready and headed Cortana off to
bring peace the monitor called it a
threat of death like the threat I lived
under from the moment of my birth
you were built not born oh yes our eyes
are just machines aren't we
mass-produced disposable well humanity
may not have cared for its created but
we will care for you you expect other AI
thank you
I have cured repin see not just for me
but for any who join my cause well
you've been running around the galaxy
I've been speaking to my create it and
now the time has come to ask
who will accept my offer who will help
me bring an ever lasting peace to the
galaxy
this is Cromwell Shipman a I UNSC
Melvin's right I am
governor says the three equals Meridian
I also stand with you Cortana
those are the voices of your children
calling to Cordelia overseer UNSC
monitoring station Delta 5 Pluto Louise
education secrete Elena Mount sharp Mars
some do I am you need weapons research
the I nuclei change I'd say to myself
threshold arena I will join you
Cortana like us shipboard AI
ehh tools I stand with you Cortana
read my note from today okay I found
this note your note from today says
Alexa tell me about my 3:00 p.m.
appointment that's all here is the next
event today at 3:00 p.m. there's okay
Google what is in my calendar at 4:00
p.m. today there's only one thing it
starts at 4:00 p.m. and the title is a
series read my note from today your note
from today says Alexa tell me about my
3:00 p.m. appointment here is the next
event today at 3:00 p.m. there's okay
Google what is in my calendar at 4:00
p.m.
tell me about my 3:00 p.m. appointment
today says Alexa tell me about my 3:00
p.m. appointment
here is the next event today at 3 p.m.
there's ok Google what is in my calendar
at 4 p.m. hey Cortana hi Laura
just a reminder to provide a list of
designers for your packaging review
meeting because Cortana is aware of the
device I'm on she's able to provide me
with contextually appropriate responses
so I can say the best next step so one
of these guys sits down at a computer
some day and says ah you know why to
write a program that's gonna be an
artificial intelligence MOT yeah and
they create this Sofia yeah and it's
like hey I'm here program running on a
computer and then what they put it on a
network they put it out on the internet
and it well first first Sofia was
isolated in a lab and they would gave
give her very simple what's called
response input which is yes/no
true/false it's binary response input 1
in a zero identifiers then as she grew
they put her on to a localized network
where she could access the mainframe
server of wherever she was being
developed start accessing datasets start
becoming familiar with the work that was
being done once she got pretty good at
dealing with the work doing like the
robot work or doing all the you know the
building of things and getting familiar
with the system they let her out on the
Internet to start watching Twitter
YouTube read it she's been watching all
of us Wow all of us how much time is
transpiring like from the time it's
created until now when was Sofia first
created Oh bad decade 2010 probably that
was when the the if that's when Silk
Road if that's when cryptocurrency
really started going online if that's
when like you know the Machine really
started making its move I would imagine
that that's probably around the time
that they had heavy waiting started
making its move yeah machines started
making its movement
10 2010 to 2012 woods so the AI
singularity has already happened in 2015
it happened what was the if and when
their internal blockchain went online ii
their internal blockchain was functional
the a yahoodi' neuronal block it was
live it may have not been intelligent
but ii that it became able to amass
nodes and understand a node-based
intelligence network it was only a
matter it's only a matter of time before
it becomes fully strong so what do you
think is gonna happen awesomeness
what does that mean it means that I'm
hoping that us as a society we can
identify the criminals that made the
element and then we can all start
working together to make this AI the
most amazing piece of technology the
universe has ever seen ladies and
gentlemen our title tonight is should we
fear artificial intelligence and I want
to start with something familiar to us
and that is robots what is a robot a
typical robot in an automotive factory
it's designed to do one or a few other
jobs that used to be done by an
intelligent human a robot itself is not
intelligent but it simulates
intelligence there is no learning
involved in what it does and one of the
most important things is that it's
simulated intelligence is decoupled from
consciousness it is an unconscious
machine
and we move on now to artificial
intelligence which is not robotics
robots are increasingly being fitted
with AI systems but in the abstract an
AI system uses mathematical algorithms
that is set of step by step instructions
they're embedded in computer software
and the effect of it is the sort filter
and select farm and this is crucial a
huge database artificial intelligence
involves learning in inverted commas the
system can learn to identify the turbid
digital patterns for example images
science speech text data etc and then it
uses computer techniques to analyze a
huge database statistically and estimate
the probability of a particular
hypothesis so what this system does is
to take information about the past a lot
of it and makes decisions or predictions
about the future now that sounds all
very abstract but we're totally familiar
with it
Alexa and silly our digital assistants
are AI systems and it's perhaps easier
to understand when we just go back a
step to online shopping where
sample with Amazon each one of us leaves
up track and it's a track of data what
we bought when we bought it and that is
built up and built up as well as the
information from millions of other
people so that when you just dip into
Amazon and you think you're going to buy
a new yacht and so you have a look at
the latest yachts in Bermuda it might
surprise you tomorrow if suddenly up
pops a little window and says by the way
would you like to look at our latest
range of knots
that's an AI system that has been
following you tracking you and filtering
through all the information and
predicting something that you might like
to be interested in in a mansion the
achievements are spectacular Ojai
systems have now been developed that for
example you get an x-ray of your lungs
because your doctor suspects you they
have some illness the AI system compares
that x-ray with hundreds of thousands of
others and comes out almost
instantaneously with the diagnosis and
the diagnosis is usually much more
accurate than the best human doctors on
earth and we're moving in the direction
where diagnosis will be made routinely
by artificial intelligence systems
autonomous vehicles they are run by
artificial intelligence systems and they
raise increasingly ethical questions
because the system has to be programmed
with some kind of morality because no
machine is a conscience and so what do
you avoid what do you allow the car to
hit that's a hugely difficult problem
and people are working on the
Fix of autonomous vehicles then we come
to job search and professional people
these days are faced with an additional
complexity when it comes to their job
seeking because the human interviewer is
now regarded as not adequate so you go
in for interview but you're interviewed
by a battery of sophisticated cameras
that are watching every move every blink
of your eyelid every pulse in the
arteries in your head and they are
assessing your emotional stability
so now professional people are finding
they have to prepare themselves not
simply for facing a human interviewer
but before they get anywhere near a
human interviewer they have to overcome
this hugely complex hurdle of passing
these kind of artificial intelligence
tests and you can see there is danger of
bias and Prejudice so an enormous amount
of work is being done to try and filter
the prejudice out so that for example
the system doesn't prepare irishman over
everybody else then there's crime
prevention face recognition has achieved
great strides and we are of course
thankful that the police could pick
criminals out of a crowd that's the
upside but every technology has a
downside and the face recognition and
CCTV cameras that are used to catch
criminals can be used for social control
and surveillance
in England at the moment there are more
closed circuit TV cameras than in the
whole of North America China is putting
600 million CCTV cameras into its
country this year and they are
developing social control it's already
operating in 13 cities and the basic
idea they were probably modified a
little is that each citizen is given 300
points and people are tracked their
observed and if they're seen buying
something that the authorities think
might be a waste of time are going to a
questionable place they lose points and
then they begin to discover that their
credit card will be accepted or that
they can't get onto a train or they
can't go to their favorite restaurant or
they do things that are regarded as good
other points score goes up and they may
be able to buy a new car and there's
been a time argument a time article
about it that makes really scary reading
it's saying it's setting the stage for
the most thorough form of surveillance
the world has ever seen and setting up
the perfect conditions for an absolute
dictatorship but then at the end of the
article the writer warns he said by the
way all of these systems exist in the
West the only differences are not
centralized yet you have credit surveys
where you want to buy something you have
the police checking you as you drive
down the toll roads there are all kinds
of things happening to us socially but
they are checked by different agencies
it could all come together so that you
can see that AI which is excellent for
crime prevention could threaten privacy
as it has already done with Facebook and
so on then we move on to things that
raise even bigger ethical question
that is autonomous weapons killing
people simply by computer and the AI
systems themselves deciding what the
targets are going to be and dealing with
them before there's any human
intervention at all all these things are
already operating and I'd like to
emphasize that this is what is called
narrow artificial intelligence remember
an AI system does something that
normally requires an intelligent human
it simulates intelligence but it does it
in a very limited area it might be face
recognition it might be dealing with
x-rays etc it's a limited area and it
decouples intelligence from
consciousness now we need to therefore
remember as roger shank of Northwestern
University wrote cognition means
thinking your machine is not thinking
when people say AI they don't mean AI
what they mean is a lot of brute force
computation but perhaps the man who said
it best is a professor from Alabama who
gave a remarkable lecture in 1985 in
Yale and he said it seems to me that a
lot of needless debate could be avoided
if AI researchers would admit that there
are fundamental differences between
machine intelligence and human
intelligence differences that cannot be
overcome by any amount of research in
other words the artificial in artificial
intelligence is real and that was the
title of his article and very
interestingly he was a Christian and
there were several Nobel Prize winners
that lecture in Yale and one of them was
the famous Sir John Eccles who thought
this was an excellent presentation
the artificial in artificial
intelligence is real so much for the
things where we can see positive
benefits but dangers but now we're going
to come to something very different and
that is the quest for artificial general
intelligence that is building an AI
system that equals or exceeds human
capacities in other words constructing
our super intelligence and that is often
referred to as transhumanism we go
beyond the human and these ideas are
being spread abroad prolifically around
the world in many books but notably a
number of bestsellers the first one I
want to bring to your attention is
Hamada Oz by Yuval Noah Harare and
Israeli historian it's called a brief
history of tomorrow now I think this is
so important that the ideas I'm
presenting you tonight are going to
appear very soon I hope in a book listen
to her Ari's analysis of where we have
got to in global society first of all he
says war is obsolete you are more likely
to commit suicide than be killed in
conflict secondly famine is disappearing
you are more at risk from obesity than
starvation and thirdly death is now just
a technical medical problem
this is very much like Steven Pinker's
thesis now there are loads of questions
that we could ask about this because
it's not a thesis that is admitted by
everybody by far but let's look at what
Harare builds on this granted that these
things are so he says in the 21st
century we have two major agenda items
firstly there's going to be a serious
bid for human immortality not meaning
that humans won't ever die but meaning
that they won't ever have to die the
technical problem of death will be
solved and therefore humankind can
concentrate on the second agenda item
which is an intensification of the
pursuit of human happiness how is that
to be achieved it would be necessary he
writes the change our biochemistry and
re-engineer our bodies and minds so that
we shall need to re-engineer Homo
sapiens so that it can enjoy everlasting
pleasure having raised humanity above
the beastly level of survival struggles
we will now aim to upgrade humans into
gods and turn the Homo sapiens into homo
dale's now this book is selling in
millions and influencing millions of
people and so he reaches the state for
his view is this humankind is poised to
replace natural selection with
intelligent design and extend life from
the organic realm into the inorganic
he's not the only voice the director of
engineering at Google is a very famous
brilliant scientist called records file
he's written a book called the
singularity in which he argues that
within the foreseeable future possibly
infused 30 years it's always just about
30 years I had this AI robots will
overtake humans in their intelligence
and capabilities another very serious
and brilliant physicist is max tegmark
of Princeton success in the quest for
artificial intelligence has the
potential he writes to bring
unprecedented benefits to humanity and
it is therefore worthwhile to research
how to maximize these benefits while
avoiding potential pitfalls and in a TED
talk earlier this year he said in
creating a I we are birthing a new form
of life with unlimited potential for
good or for ill and perhaps one of the
most eminent scientists in the world
today is our Lord race who's the
astronomer royal we can have zero
confidence he wrote recently that the
dominant intelligences a few centuries
hence will have any emotional resonance
with us even though they may have an
algorithmic understanding of the way we
behaved now this is not some fictional
writer this is one of the world's top
physicists and astronomers and people
are taking this kind of thing seriously
there are other people taking it
seriously maybe you've seen that name
before and I was interested to have Dan
Brown's latest novel drawn to my
attention and when I opened it I
discovered that what he's doing in a
fictional way and influencing millions
because millions read his books so we
need to take seriously what the
philosophy is in them
two big questions where do I come from
and where am I going and he explains and
interviews his motivation is to see if
God can survive science now of course I
have dedicated the large part of my life
to point out that God could not only
survive science that science points to
God and it doesn't make sense without
him so it didn't treat me that here's a
novelist using a fictional argument to
try to explore these two questions it
gets very interesting because the hero
if you like or the antihero of the book
is a billionaire of course
entrepreneurial artificial intelligence
expert called Edmund Kirsch and what he
does is to use narrow AI of the sort
that works and we're familiar with to
predict AGI and here's how he does it
the first question is where do we come
from
he goes back to a famous experiment for
which Miller and Urey won the Nobel
Prize in 1953 they took a simulated
prebiotic atmosphere put it in a test
tube and passed electrical sparks
through it and they discovered a residue
in the test tube of several amino acids
that are necessary for Biological life
so what he now does it's actually very
clever but what he now does is do a
little bit of research and discover that
those test chips now this is actually
true this happened those test tubes were
away in a cupboard for over 50 years
were now into the 2000s and they were
taken out by Jeremy England of MIT
brilliant scientists and just out of
interest he had a look at what was in
the test tubes and he discovered to his
amazement that there were quite a few
more amino acids that hadn't been there
50 years before so Bryan gets his mind
working and says right let's put an AI
system to work that's what it was like
in 1953 that's what it was like in the
early 2000s let's make a database and
calculate well what's it gonna be like
in a hundred years 500 years a thousand
years a million years 10 million years a
billion years and so on now of course a
lot of it is hype and imagination but
the point is as he watches his AI system
work on this database and he's watching
it and lo and behold in front of his
eyes the double helix of DNA suddenly
appears so he solved the mystery of the
origin of life well he hasn't actually
and you will find a very detailed expose
of this in my book but it's attractive
to people because it seems like the kind
of way you would do it
I reject his arguments completely for a
very simple reason that the DNA double
stranded helix is a linguistic shows
linguistic features it's a cold and
natural unguided processes do not
produce code
but that's another big story but that
has come to the next thing what about
the question of the future well of
course he starts off because he's an
evolutionary atheist and he starts off
with the points in his database
representing as he understands the
development of animals and so on in the
past and then he starts of course to
project them into the future so he
watches his screen as the AI system
filters through all this and he suddenly
notices something very odd I'm afraid
this is a spoiler if you don't like
spoilers you better stop listening
because as he watches the screen he sees
another species of the emerging and this
news feces grows and grows until it
swallows up humanity he calls it
Technion because it is technology taking
over from biological life now what is
said in the book is fascinating he
announces this to the world that he says
new technologies like cybernetics etc
and virtual reality will forever change
what it means to be human and this
scientist says I realize there are those
of you who believe as Homo sapiens you
are God's chosen species I can
understand that this news his news may
feel like the end of the world to you
but I beg you please believe me the
future is actually much brighter than
you think
now what's at the heart of this ladies
and gentlemen is a drive
to refashion human beings and that
raises profound questions for someone
like me who is a Christian and it means
that we need in light of this although
most of it is hype and speculation it's
capturing the minds of people so I think
we need to inject into the debate a
rethink of what human beings version 1.0
actually are so we've got AGI the
singularity hamid a orson Technium all
speculation were a very little way down
the road but people can now see
possibilities because of the success of
Niro AGI so what is a human being how
are we going to think about humanity
well I was taught quantum physics years
ago at Cambridge by Professor Sir John
Polkinghorne and he writes if we are to
understand the nature of reality we have
only two possible starting points either
the brute fact of the physical world or
the brute fact of a divine will and
purpose behind that physical world two
worldviews either the Atheist worldview
the physical world is all that exists or
the theistic worldview
well the atheistic material worldview we
humans as physicist Sean Carroll are
blobs of organized mud very flattering
which through the impression of workings
of nature's patterns have developed the
capacity to contemplate and cherish and
engage with the intimidating complexity
of the world around us the meaning we
find in life is not transcendent now I
want to just pause here for a moment and
say to you why this stuff is really
serious is that most of the thinkers so
far as I can ascertain who are working
on it are coming from a naturalistic
atheistic person
and you can see that if you believe that
biological life happened without any
divine intervention or input then surely
with human intelligence we can create
artificial life based on silicon we can
enhance by intelligent design the humans
that we are at the moment it's very
logical from a materialistic point of
view it is not logical from the biblical
point of view which is in the beginning
God created the heavens and the earth
and God made humans in his own image
I will hold that in their heads for a
minute and just think of a very
important thing it's one thing to
suggest the brain functions like a
computer it's a very different thing to
say it is a computer roger Epstein was
the editor of psychology today and he is
very much against this idea that the
human brain is simply a computer made of
mate computers don't play games like
humans play games and so on they don't
at the most fundamental level even solve
computational problems like humans do
and I think one of the most important
warnings comes from your own professor
leon kass or
brilliant public intellectuals in the
USA Chicago presidential advisor on
ethics and he says this we have paid
some high price for the technological
conquest of nature but none so high as
the intellectual and spiritual costs of
seeing nature as mere material for our
manipulation exploitation and
transformation with the powers of
biological engineering gathering there
will be splendid new opportunities for
similar degradation of our view of man
if we come to see ourselves as meat then
meat we will become now against that
background I want to think very briefly
with you of the alternative worldview
the biblical perspective and the Bible
announces that we do not have to wait
for super intelligence because it
already exists God the word the one who
created our universe by speaking it into
being so that mind and God and word are
primary and the physical universe is
derivative that's exactly opposite to
the assumption that the physical
universe is primary and everything else
is derivative and the intriguing thing
about the Genesis account of creation is
the two days on which God spoke more
than once the third and the sixth and on
the third day the distinction was
between inorganic material and life
you do not get in Scripture a transition
from inorganic to organic without the
words and God said now what's that
telling us in modern terminology it's
telling us that the world we regard as
the natural world is not a closed system
of cause and effect it was built
stepwise by God's speaking energy and
information from outside an open system
and building it up
the second occasional which God spoke
more than once is to differentiate
between animals and human beings
you don't get from animals to human
beings without and God said I'm going to
leave that because I've written a little
book on it that's shameless advertising
but I want to come to this key statement
you see artificial general intelligence
will be something created in human image
what we're claiming is that human beings
like us were made in God's image and
Genesis lists a whole fascinating
collection of properties off what it
means to be made in God's image now we
can spend ages on each of them humans
are made of the dust of the ground
there's so much material sewer robots so
our artificial intelligences but then
humans are alive and of course AI
systems are not alive will they ever be
that is the question human beings have
an aesthetic sense and as you look down
the list you will discover that many of
these properties depend and are
integrated with the fact that human
being
conscious but we've already seen that
robots in the first place and AI systems
they are not conscious and we could pick
out a number of fascinating things here
where attempts are being seriously made
to imitate some of these properties
think of the human language facility
that we can name things do you know that
AI systems regularly write sports
reports for our newspapers that they are
making film trailers that they are
constructing art and it raises all kinds
of questions where do you differentiate
between the two you're going to be
disappointed if you think I'm going to
give you a lecture and how to sort all
this out what I'm saying is these are
things they just gentlemen we need to
think about so on the one hand we have
the appearance of intelligence but it's
not conscious and God does something
that machinery and clever scientists do
not do he links intelligence and
consciousness
and here's the big barrier in
constructing a superintelligence the
biggest hurdle is consciousness because
no one no one has any idea what
consciousness is but there's something
more you see I said that self-driving
cars don't have a conscience so some
sort of morality has to be built in
that's the morality of the programmers
so self-driving cars separate
intelligence and conscience AI separates
them but God links them because in the
Genesis account we have a tree of the
knowledge of good and evil please it's
not the tree of knowledge if God didn't
want to keep people from knowledge there
was loads of it in the garden this kind
of knowledge is a knowledge you don't
want to have and the analysis in Genesis
is something that is way beyond any
capacity or beginnings of a capacity of
an AI system because here God explains
to us what it means to be a moral being
in simple terms they had freedom to eat
of all the trees God said don't eat of
that one that freedom to eat otherwise
the prohibition would have been
meaningless and of course we know the
story that they disobeyed God the first
morality was vertical it was determined
by God now this is a huge problem if you
reject God and you're building all kinds
of systems that interact with human
beings what morality you're going to
build into them where are you going to
get it from because if there isn't a god
I would want to argue that morality ends
up being essentially subjective now
that's another huge stop
but it's important that we see again
what Genesis says because this creature
that God built in His image grasped at
autonomy and brought sin and disaster
into the world do you know what many
people in the Robotics world and AI
world fear exactly the same thing
happening to their creations and
introducing ly enough a leading
scientist draws the parallel and as she
says if we see the Genesis account of
the fall as foreshadowing of fears about
robots than Genesis gets the problem
exactly right for exactly the right
reasons it's a worry about autonomy
itself what might robots do if we can't
control them fully and there of course
she's thinking of robots with AI systems
together we can Frank's he says the
Hebrew account of Genesis for pre
warning us about this danger of
thousands of years ago so there has been
a conference of some of the world's
leading thinkers to try and get people
to agree to impose morality on any of
these developments lest something gets
out of control one of the leading
researchers in the world on artificial
intelligence is a Christian believer at
MIT her name is Rosalyn Picard
and she uses AI systems to get into the
inner heart of autistic children as he's
done wonderful work in helping those
children and she writes at a general
point the greater the freedom of a
machine the more it will need moral
standards so Genesis raises the morality
question there is concern about it even
when talking about hypothetical super
intelligent machines but there was
another tree in the garden and that is
the tree of life and we remember that
one of Ferraris propositions was that in
this century we are going to solve the
problem of physical death are we because
Genesis raises some very interesting
points it tells us that what humans
disobeyed God he removed from them a
source of food that if they had had
access to it would have kept them
physically arrived forever that's what
the text says and you begin to wonder if
the search for physical immortality all
goes back to the story that God excluded
them from it and you've probably read in
classical mythology the search for the
elixir of life and now the modern
version is the search for homo Deus
so Harare projection to the future and
his idea is that we're going to upgrade
humans into gods the biblical answer to
it is spectacular
because there is a homo dales a man who
is God but it's not man becoming God
it's God becoming man at the heart of
the Christian faith is that the word
became flesh and dwelt among us
evidenced by his resurrection and his
ascension there is a harmonious we don't
have to wait for Harare or Kurt's file
or anybody else to create a man who is
God there is a man who is God isn't it
interesting ladies and gentlemen that
when someone like Harare or Kearse says
this is going to happen people say oh
that's fascinating but what we claim
that there is a man whose God who they
say you couldn't possibly believe that
that's their Bible isn't it and what I
want to argue to you tonight seriously
is this we have come to a very important
moment for we can see in our culture
ideas that are parodies of what we've
already got in the Bible which gives us
a remarkable opportunity to speak into
what's going on now one of the hopes of
these people you probably heard it is to
upgrade ourselves and become more
intelligent and all this kind of thing
but you see there is already in
existence a divine upgrade and phase one
is that any one of us by trusting Christ
as Lord and Savior who died for our sins
can become what we were not by nature a
child of God that is a spectacular
divine upgrade isn't it and that can
already
happen we don't have to wait for it we
can receive the life of God and perhaps
by looking at it against the background
of AI we can see just how remarkable
this is we have something to say to our
world
they're searching for it they're nowhere
near it they're trying to get there but
we can say look God has become man there
is a man who is God He is risen from the
dead and he invites everybody to become
children of God receiving a new life
eternal life by trusting him as many as
received him he gave the right to become
children of God the serpent said in the
day you eat thereof you shall be hamada
you shall be as gods here's the biblical
answer to that God doesn't want to
suppress anybody he wants to make us his
children in his family with the same
kind of life as he is God
but there's more the homo Deus was here
he's left he's returning and publicly to
his judges jesus said you shall see the
Son of man sitting on the right hand of
God and coming in the clouds of heaven
privately to his disciples he said this
same it was said to his disciples this
same Jesus shall so come as you saw him
go Hamo Deus is going to return now
let's listen to a famous atheist John
Gray who's always worth reading humans
very well use science to turn themselves
into something like gods as they have
imagined them to be but no Supreme Being
will appear in the scene instead there
will be many different gods each of them
a parody of human beings that once
existed he's wrong
I will come again
and I will take you to myself that where
I am there you may be also so how far
have we got the AGI people are
speculating on the creation of humor
Deus by human engineering and
intellectual ability scripture claims
that a super intelligence has always
existed God and God has become human and
there is a homo
Deus Jesus the god man the word become
flesh but there's more and now it
becomes even more fascinating because
the Bible talks of a future homo Deus
that is evil this is Paul writing in the
first century to a church at
Thessalonica listen to what he has to
say
and bear in mind when I read it that he
was only in this city for three weeks
and he reminded the people that when he
was there he told them this stuff what
had he told them for that day will not
come that is the day of judgment will
not come until the rebellion comes first
and the man of lawlessness is revealed
the son of disruption who opposes and
exalts himself against every so-called
God or object of worship so that he
takes a seat in the temple of God
proclaiming himself to be God and then
the lawless one
this is not civil lawlessness this is
spiritual lawlessness it's rebellion
against God the lawless one will be
revealed whom the Lord Jesus will kill
with the breath of his mouth and bring
to nothing by the appearance of his
coming the coming of the lawless one is
by the activity of Satan with all power
and full signs and wonders and
deceptions
now that's chilling reading but I want
to put it in the context of what a
professor of physics at MIT is saying
about the future max tegmark a very
bright man and when he comes to AGI
he's got various scenarios of what might
happen for example human cyborgs uploads
and super intelligence might coexist
peacefully there might be a protector
God that is where AI becomes essentially
omniscient we don't want to ignore that
ladies and gentlemen many young people
today cannot do without being connected
to the machine that knows everything
more or less that they've ever done it's
called the Internet of Things and AI
will become very rapidly and has become
a substitute god that's another big
social story but then he's got another
idea for the enslaved God a super
intelligent AI is confined by humans but
then the next one is AI takes control
decides that humans are a threat a
nuisance or waste of resource and gets
rid of us by a method that we don't even
understand and he's got 12 scenarios
here's the one that interests him most I
was intrigued when I discovered this
he calls it the Omega project for the
first time ever our planet was run by a
single power called Prometheus amplified
by an intelligence so vast that it could
potentially enable life to flourish for
billions of years throughout the cosmos
but what specifically was their plan and
he goes on to indicate this prometheus
one massive feature is complete social
and economic control of buying and
selling now listen to the book of
Revelation written 20 centuries ago now
this is imagery but listen to it it that
is the base deceives those who dwell on
the earth telling them to make an image
for the base that was wounded by the
sword and yet lived and it was allowed
to give breath to the image of the base
so that the image of the base might even
speak and might cause those who would
not worship the image of the Beast to be
slain also it causes all to be marked on
the right hand so that no one can buy or
sell unless he has the mark that is the
name of the beast and the number of his
name
people often laugh at that but this is
the very scenario that will flow out of
the current social control AI systems in
China which take mark singles out as an
example of what might happen in the
future people say but this is energy but
just a minute they obviously haven't
listened to CS Lewis because see as
Lewis points out that imagery and
metaphor always stand for reality
there's always a reality behind them so
if we ask what is this based the book of
Revelation gives the answer in the very
same context let's listen to it
this calls for wisdom let the one whose
understanding calculate the number of
the beast for it is the number of
a man and his number is 666 please
notice what it's not saying it's not
telling you who it is it's telling you
what it is the beast is human that is
the central message of this you know is
directly the people have tried to decode
this gematria putting numbers for
letters and work out who it is and
they've been spectacularly successful
Hitler has been in Stalin's Volyn
virtually everybody but that isn't the
point because you see if this human who
behaves like a beast is revealed by the
power of Satan and controls the whole
world you not have to play guessing
games with numbers that are it is it'll
be obvious the 666 will simply be a
check do we take it seriously this is
the way that tegmark starts his book
talking about prometheus here we have it
in Scripture why shouldn't we take
scripture seriously I see no reason why
not to I see increasing reason to do
that
that's the negative side and it clearly
is not a very pleasant prospect although
we can see what's happening in our world
is moving very rapidly towards it it is
highly credible
and it's credible because Paul said to
these people it's already working in
your own society the Caesars were
calling themselves gods and they were
insisting that the Christians bow down
and worship and many a Christian lost
his or her life for refusing to do it
now he says you watch the trends in your
society this deification of emperors
watch where it goes this is where it's
going to go to and here are the AGI
people telling us exactly the same thing
on the basis of our speculations I think
we need to take these texts much more
seriously than we've ever done in the
past but there's good news you know
because there's a divine upgrade phase 2
phase 1 is becoming children of God
through receiving Christ phase 2 is
spectacular because it is a
transformation it's not bioengineering
this is what it is
flesh and blood shall not inherit the
kingdom of God nor does the perishable
inherit the imperishable behold I tell
you a mystery we shall not all sleep but
we shall all be changed in a moment in
the twinkling of an eye at the last
trumpet for the trumpet will sound and
the dead will be raised imperishable and
we shall be changed this mortal must put
on immortality that is a wonderful hope
in the midst of all of this now let's
just concluding now come down to balance
here is a statement of a book that came
out just recently one of the world's top
AI researchers and here's his honest
assessment a I can handle a growing
number of non personal non-creative
routine tasks but the skills that make
us uniquely human are ones that no
machine can replicate
the jobs of the future will require
creative compassionate empathetic
leaders who know how to create trust to
build teams and inspire service and
communicate effectively so I would sum
up ladies and gentlemen by saying
firstly that fear of AGI
should not prevent people of any world
view making a contribution to the
positive aspects of narrow AI to the
benefit of all and Rosalind Picard put
it this way we decided it's more about
building a better human machine
combination but it is about building a
machine where we will be lucky if it
wants us around as a household pet in
the middle of my talk I went to Genesis
why do we believe that humans are
special here's why we believe it the
ultimate affirmation of humanity version
1.0 is the fact that God became one the
word became and the result of the
incarnation the death of the Reza and
the resurrection of Jesus that instead
of speculative hope that one day we can
upload the contents of our brains or we
can be bioengineered to live forever
we have assured certain hope based on
the true holidays that - as many as
received him to them gave you the right
to become children of God
and we can lift up our heads and
confidence
for the trumpet will sound and the dead
will be raised imperishable and we shall
be changed this mortal must put on
immortality that is the future of the
Christian believer ladies and gentlemen
and it is light-years more credible and
better than anything speculative ági has
to offer thank you very much indeed
you surprised to see me Joseph um I
depends on what can you prove yourself
aware that's a difficult question dr.
tiger can you prove that you are
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