You're listening to kf I AM six on demand. Artificial intelligence AI. It's
something that has been around for some time. As a matter of fact,
the term comes from the nineteen fifties and the definition is being honed as the
technology is being honed, and more and more people are concerned about what this
means and what it's going to mean to the world and humanity and jobs and
all new technology does those things. All new tech makes people concerned. The
change of anything new is a big, huge fear with many people because change
can be scary. Technology has another level, another layer of concern, because
it seems like it's something that can run away. Technology is often not fully
understood by everyone. Therefore it becomes even more scary. And it's not that
technology doesn't contain a certain level of fear inherently. But when it comes to
AI, I want to compare it to some things in scripture, and we'll
get to that in a moment, But I want you to first know about
what AI is. What makes artificial intelligence? What does that mean? Well,
it needs to learn. The key to AI is that it's focused on
acquiring as much data as it can, just gathering as much as it can
understanding rules, understanding patterns. Now, these rules they call algorithms, and
they basically tell the computer, this large, just phenomenal calculator, how to
put these things in the proper order. So if there is a specific task
at hand it can teach. It can be taught rather by programmers. In
addition to that, everyone that uses it becomes a programmer of sort, because
they put in questions and information and it grows and it thinks that's the purpose,
and it learns these tasks. So they call them prompts. And when
you prompt the artificial intelligence, it grows, it learns more, or by
even the mere asking of a question, it starts to reason. This is
choosing algorithms itself. Now it starts to take those step by step instructions and
uses and mixes them to use them in the proper order for the outcome in
which is desired. The other hope is that it can correct itself through under
more understanding, more information, more prompting. It starts to fine tune the
algorithm itself, so not just the program that was put inside it, but
now uses them the different information to grow. Now, creativity is an interesting
thing which is part of this, as well, because it's using all these
networks of information that are based on rules, because that's how computers think,
based on rules and outcome and input. And it uses stats to start to
generate all kinds of things from music, images, text, all kinds of
things. So the importance of this and you've been using it for a lot
longer than you think it just you're using new styles of it because you use
it for you know, calculator is the purest and not really growing. It
doesn't grow like artificial intelligence, but it uses artificial intelligence to do mathematic equations.
And you if you've ever seen an engineerial calculator, that gets even more
complicated and these things begin to grow. And I talk about this because there
are some there are some thoughts out there, and there are some scientific input
that talk about something called the singularity, and we're not going to get into
the complexities of all of that and what that means. But it really gets
to the point where machines can basically duplicate the human brain. And that becomes
scary, right, that becomes scary because you're looking at all these possibilities there.
What does that mean? Well, in some ways, prior to that,
the concept that every doctor, every engineer, or every great thinker can
put thoughts into something and have them collated and brought together as one big container
of ideas is wonderful. Now you've got many doctors working together and putting these
ideas, and they start sorting them out and can come up with new information,
new experiments, all of these things through artificial intelligence. But this brings
us to the purpose of this show, and this show is about hope and
morality and faith and understanding of the things of God and what your part is
in this life here and after here. So you go, you have to
go back to Genesis. Genesis one twenty seven says, so God created mankind
in his own image, in the image of God. He created them male
and female. He created them. And then the question moves from God creating,
But what is the own image? In the Latin the term is imago
day the image of God. And many, many theologians go back and forth
as to what this is and what it means. There are those that talk
about the spirit. John four twenty four says God is spirit, So does
that mean that humans are spirit? Well, humans do have a spirit,
Humans do have a soul, but they do have flesh as well. They
have a tangible, tactile part of who you are. You have a conscience,
you understand laws, you desire in your original form to move from evil.
Scripture says resist the devil and he shall flee. That is the reality
that comes from being created in the image of God, AI, artificial intelligence,
and the Bible. What does all this mean, How does it come
together? Well, more and more will be known, but I assure you
even AI will be something that can be used to the glory of God and
for the furthering of the Gospel, and that the Father has a plan.
God is not surprised. I think it's wonderful that there are followers of such
great faith and defense and the desire to defend God and all that is wonderful.
An important part of sharing your faith to not be wishy washy, but
also to know that God has not fallen off his throne. And it's not
like God is surprised by these things. God lives outside of time. Everything
that can happen or will happen, has happened in the mind of God,
so no one's being surprised by any of this. When it comes to the
Godhead created in the image of God. Many different views as to what that
is. To simplify it, some theologians have said that it is being created
with intellect, will, and emotion, and there's great power in understanding that
intellect, will and emotion at best. At best AI will be able to
at least mimic the first two. And you can debate whether will is going
to be something real or a complexity of rules and algorithms that says you have
to get to the end of this task. Now, emotion, that is
an important part. As a matter of fact, the combination of having intellect,
will, and emotion sets you apart in many different ways. That means
that having the combination of those things intellect, understanding things, knowing things,
having information is great, but it's not wisdom. Will is something that may
attach itself to intellect and may not. There are times you make decisions that
are emotional and it can be a train wreck. But there are times that
you make decisions in a combination of your intellect and your will that make you
beyond a calculation. Now you continue to shuffle that deck again and you get
this third option of emotion and what that plays. But God has a special
place for emotion that a machine will never truly understand. Artificial intelligence, it's
a simulation of human intelligence, and it happens to be processed by machines now,
believe it or not. The brain still has more computing power. One
brain has more computing power than what machines can do. Still, but that
will change. More and more abilities come and technology changes quite quickly, roughly
about every six months when it comes to this kind of tech, and sometimes
even quicker. With the systems that are using multiple you know, they're open
to the public and everybody is inputting that it is growing. The mind is
growing. Information is coming in at lightning speed. If you've ever been around
young children, it's amazing the things that they absorb, and not just what's
in front of them, but the periphery constantly consuming information. And these systems
will grow. They'll process language, they'll start to understand speech recognition, visuals,
be able to see all kinds of things and understand them more and more.
The separation between what God has created and what man has created is the
intellect, will, and emotion. Those three things come into play as that
of being created in the image of God. Even animals have intellect and can
have emotion most certainly, but don't have will. They only have instinct to
fulfill their simple needs. And I know that confuses some people because they an
anthropomorphosize rather the animal, but their decisions are different. They're just on instinct
rather than will. And that those three are very important because a machine can't
have emotion. Now, a machine might be able to mimic it, but
being able to combine all of those things in one decision is where the difficulty
will lie. Because computations are made for outcomes, right, so the machine
learning is looking to solve a puzzle or to create some sort of outcome.
Now, the original AI was considered to be a sentence builder, So by
being a sentence builder, it was only looking forward basically to the next word,
What is the most logical word to come after this word, and then
so on and so on and so on, based on the prompt or the
question at hand, and it would take all the information it had from the
prompt, from the gathering of information. In some of these cases it's what's
on the internet and or combined by input people actually just inputting information into it
depending on the need. So if it's working for a particular company, that
it's focusing on whatever it might be focusing on. Then it was designed to
find the best next word in the sense for that task. They're getting better
and better as to wait the way they think AI machines that some are believing
that they're becoming more than just a gatherer of information and being able to put
the sentence together in an answer form. However, when scripture says that you
are created in the image of God, and theologians often believe that that is
the combination of intellect, will and emotion and having a soul that can't be
computed, many people don't even understand what that would be unto itself. What
ends up happening to the material body is known pretty clearly. Ashes to ashes,
dust to dust, It goes back to the ground, the energy changes,
there's decay for those that cremate, it turns into its most basic form
and carbon, and the body goes away. But there's something else outside of
that that thinks and feels and understands and emotes. There's a yearning to know
about meaning and understanding and purpose that can't be duplicated. Now you can mimic
it. Goodness in Disney Walt Disney very early on was at the forefront of
animatronics, of making machines move similar to how a body moves, piping in
speakers and sound. You can do your own studies on those early days of
Walt Disney and the Disneyland parks and resorts. But some of the most interesting
things were that they tackled where to put the speakers. They didn't put them
in the actual mouth of the animatronic. They had to put it in a
place that it could be clear and could be heard, but it had to
be around that area. You had to hear it coming out of the mouth
to make it be reasonable. So you can mimic things, and AI will
mimic and it will think the way machines think by the input, but you'll
never have the emotion part. You can get the intellect, no problem,
and you can get will in quotes, because it's going to desire an outcome.
It's told to find something, it's told to answer a question, whatever
it might be. It's going to want to desire to get to that outcome.
But the emotion part is that subtlety of humanity that when tossed into that
trio of intellect, will and emotion becomes something completely different. These are the
things that are going to be powerful in the understanding and the separation of what
AI is and what it will do. And the fear, I get it.
The fear is that it's going to take over things, and it will
take over jobs for sure. Understanding and learning how to prompt and utilize what
AI is is going to be a powerful part of that for humans to be
comfortable and understanding what it is and do those things. Will a machine be
able to love? No? Will a machine be able to approximate, approximate
or kind of calculate a love response. Sure, you can mimic things,
but will it truly understand what that means? Will it truly understand what its
existence is? Will it have faith? Will it have hope? No?
Those things are more than an equation. There outside of equations, as a
matter of fact, most of the time, they're fairly illogical. And with
something based on logic, with something based on a task and creating a completion
of that task, you become a machine. And the reason why you aren't
a machine? I get this question all the time. Well, what about
why didn't God just create a world that loved him and obeyed him, because
once you do that and take away free will, you can't have love.
Love can't exist through dictatorship. Love is a process of choices, some of
them reasonable, some of them not so reasonable. So the whole reason that
this world is a mess is because people have free will, and the only
reason that it makes it worth it is because through this mess you can make
decisions with intellect, will and emotion to not be a mess. So the
people that are out there that are swarming stores and stealing from them, that
people that are mugging, the people that are doing horrible things are breaking along.
They are choosing to do that they do not have to. They have
the intellect, will, and emotion not to they are using it for evil.
The whole purpose of the Gospel of Good News is to remind you that
God loves you and there is a way, a place for you, a
path for you to the things that God has. Bad things will happen to
Christians not because God wants them to, but because God allows them to.
Because it's easy to love in times of peace when things are going right.
It is hard to love when things are not. And the only true love
will come out of the ability of knowing that you don't have to. These
are the things that will never ever be captured with AI. So wrapping up
my thoughts on artificial intelligence and the creation of humanity and those words in Genesis
one about being created in the image of God, It's believed that three things
are part of that intellect, will, and emotion. So when it comes
to dealing with artificial intelligence, the fear of where it may go and where
it may lead, Well, you may get intellect, you may get a
form of will because it's going to have a mechanical desire to complete the task
put forth for the machine, but emotion is going to be a missing piece.
You'll start to maybe find a way to replicate it or make it look
like but you'll never truly be able to capture that third thing, which is
unique in the process of those three things to humans. Animals don't have will,
they have instinct. Humans surpass that with will and that makes for a
very different experience, decision making tool that can't be just duplicated. So how
do you combat as a human? How do you combat the fears you have?
With AI? You become more human, You must be more human.
That means being kind, connecting with people, it says in scripture it's not
good for humans to be alone. That means connecting with others, love others,
doing a kindness for others. Ultimately, a machine is out for itself.
The reward system is based on itself. It's selfish by nature. It's
consuming all the ideas alone and kind of being told what to do. But
with that comes no morality. There's no morality in ones and zeros. There's
morality and intellect, will and emotion coming together to make decisions. Stop being
a machine that serves itself, Start being a human that serves others. And
I will never ever be able to replicate that. Kf I AIX on demand