“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.”
John 14:1
Trust God in all things. Turn to God in all things. Everything. Daily. We live in these interesting, last of the last days not to live fearfully of all that is occurring, but to live faithfully. To actually be fortified, increased in faith by all that is taking place. No need to fear if justified by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and being sanctified daily. Turn to the Word of God daily for the spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical nourishment needed to not only sustain us in these times but to have us grow closer to the Lord. To increase in spiritual wisdom and understanding.
To increase in our faith.
To lessen our fears.
To be true disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ and spread the gospel to others. Out of our love for the Lord and what He has done for us, and out of our love for all those created in God’s image to be small instruments of service to the Lord in giving others the words of truth and way to salvation before it becomes too late for them.
Place all trust, and all hope on the Lord.
Our home is not here.
Our home, our eternal home is in heaven. And all these things taking place must happen. They are clearly foretold in the Holy Bible. Sinful, fallen men and women become ever more sinful and wicked in the last of the last days. There is a great turning from God, from Christ, from the Word of God. A great falling away.
This world is dark. Lost, and becoming ever more so by the day.
Thus it is imperative to turn to God, to Christ, to the Holy Spirit, to the Holy Bible as perhaps never before. Faithfully. Prayerfully.
AI is nothing to fear. It may be used, it is being used, it will be used by evil to further evil’s purposes and hoped for goals, but evil is defeated. It was defeated on the cross. Do you believe that? Then do not fear these times. Grow in faith and Biblical literacy, Biblical fluency, and understanding. Take these dark and sinful days and nights to increase in faith, not fear.
Ken Pullen, Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024
Ex-Google engineer fired over claiming AI is sentient is now warning of doomsday scenarios
Monday, December 25, 2023
Reprinted from The Washington Times
The software engineer fired by Google after alleging its artificial intelligence project might be alive has a new primary concern: AI may start a war and could be used for assassinations.
Blake Lemoine experimented with Google’s AI systems in 2022 and concluded that its LaMDA system was “sentient” or capable of having feelings. Google disputed his assertions and ultimately ousted him from the company.
Mr. Lemoine is working on a new AI project now and told The Washington Times he is terrified that the tools other AI makers are creating will be used wrongfully in warfare.
He said the emerging technology can reduce the number of people who will die and limit collateral damage but it will also pose new dangers.
“Using the AI to solve political problems by sending a bullet into the opposition will become really seductive, especially if it’s accurate,” Mr. Lemoine said. “If you can kill one revolutionary thought leader and prevent a civil war while your hands are clean, you prevented a war. But that leads to ‘Minority Report’ and we don’t want to live in that world.”
He was referencing the Philip K. Dick novella “Minority Report,” where police use technology to solve crimes before they happen. The story was adapted into a sci-fi film starring Tom Cruise in 2002.
Mr. Lemoine sees the race for AI tools as akin to nuclear weapons. Artificial intelligence enables machines to accomplish tasks through advanced computing and statistical analysis previously only possible for humans.
The race to amass the tools will be different and Mr. Lemoine expects people will much more easily get their hands on the powerful tech. He said the bottleneck evident for well-guarded nuclear weapons and the scarce resources of plutonium and uranium are constraints that do not exist for open-source software models that do not depend upon rare natural resources.
Mr. Lemoine said his decision to go public with concerns that Google’s AI was sentient in the fall of 2022 caused a delay in its AI product launch, which the company is still working to overcome.
In December, Google unveiled Gemini, a new AI model. Mr. Lemoine said Gemini looks to be an upgraded version of the LaMDA system he previously probed.
One major difference is that Gemini knows it is not human, he said.
“It knows it’s an AI. It still talks about its feelings, it talks about being excited, it talks about how it’s glad to see you again and if you’re mean to it, it gets angry and says, ‘Hey, stop that. That’s mean,’” he said. “But it can’t be fooled into thinking it’s human anymore. And that’s a good thing. It’s not human.”
His new project is MIMIO.ai where he oversees the technology and AI for the company building a “Personality Engine” to let people create digital personas.
It is not intended to work as a digital twin of a person but as a digital extension of a person capable of doing things on the person’s behalf. The AI will be designed to complete tasks and interact with humans as if it were the human itself.
“You might be an elderly person who wants to leave a memorial for your children,” Mr. Lemoine said, “so you teach an AI all about you so that it can talk in your place when you’re gone.”
A few other AI makers are competing to build similar products but Mr. Lemoine is confident MIMIO.ai’s technology is better. He said China already has similar tools and MIMIO.ai intends to stay out of the Chinese market.
His experience at Google testing and probing its AI systems under development shaped his understanding of AI tools’ limitless potential and he thinks his work affected Google too.
“I think that there are a handful of developers at Google who implemented things a different way than they otherwise would have because they listened to me,” he said. “I don’t think they necessarily share all of my convictions or all of my opinions, but when they had a choice of implementing it one way or another, and that both were equally as hard, I think they chose the more compassionate one as a tiebreaker. And I appreciate that.”
He praised Google and said he hopes his interpretation of their actions is correct. “If that’s just a story I’m telling myself, then it’s a happy nighttime story,” he said.
Google did not respond to a request for comment.
Ryan Lovelace can be reached at rlovelace@washingtontimes.com
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