Understanding the White House AI Action Plan
“As conversations about ethical AI engagement continue to grow, the ERLC plans to publish an AI Church Guide this fall to help pastors and churches navigate the complex opportunities and challenges AI poses for the Church and consider the implications for society as a whole.” - Baptist Press
In reality, you can take the word "AI" and just replace it with "technology" and the ERLC statement would read the same. To be honest, AI at this point, is not really AI. The big fuss over AI the last few years has been around Generative AI. All Generative AI does, is to guess really well which word should be used to respond to a question and statistically which words should precede and follow the word after. It has the illusion of intelligence, but in the end is just statistically modeling. The current models today are really good pattern recognizers that give this illusion of some new level of intelligence that is being achieved. It is just the continuing evolution of the Internet and Big Data. As we have amassed data in computer systems that are more and more interconnected and able to share data and as we developed more and more computing power that can analyze that data, we are able to increase not only the pattern modeling but the data to support the pattern modeling.
How close does this verse resonate with today, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them." We have now overcome our dispersion. We are once again one language. We have overcome our shortened life span, we now have the knowledge of all of humanity at our fingertips. We have begun to become everlasting. We are now exploiting our creative nature to create a being in our own image, that exalts our power and leverages our everlasting knowledge, as we too seek to become gods cast into our own image. Man will continue down this path because they are driven by the Prince of this World and a desire to be like God. Will God, once again say, "nothing they propose to do will now be impossible for them", and will he seek to disperse again?
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