As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
Last semester, one of my friends, who adjuncts at a local college, told a story about how he pulled one of his students aside after reading an essay that didn’t quite sound like him. The tone seemed too polished and robotic. The structure came across symmetrically predictable. It eventually came out that the young man had used AI to write the paper. But that wasn’t the part that blew up my brain.
“Scripture explains that knowing is a lot more than possessing facts. More specifically, the book of Proverbs describes wisdom as something that comes only from rigour: the rigour of study, of obedience, and of experience. Wisdom is a gift given by God.” - David de Bruyn
“In Part 1 of this conversation, Dr. Mappouras explained why the Turing Test is probably insufficient. Here, he delves into a new method…. set up to determine the ability of large language models to truly understand and apply new knowledge rather than just match patterns.” - Discovery Institute
“I tell my students the brain is a lot like a muscle: It takes genuine hard work to see gains. Without challenging that muscle, it won’t grow bigger.” - The Conversation
“The Church must have a theology of the body, or ‘disturbing’ science will fill in the blanks.” - Breakpoint
“Even before ChatGPT, chatbots were well on their way to passing the Turing test as commonly understood….But Turing would not have seen a chatbot as an artificial mind equal to that of a human.” - Tech Radar
“You have 4.617 * 10^61 thoughts at least potentially in your head.” - Psychology Today
The book “is the product of LaPine’s Ph.D. research… at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Deerfield, IL). His academic interests in theology, human emotion, the functions of the mind, and neuroscience were motivated by personal reasons and the desire to help those closest to him” - London Lyceum
“It’s also important to note that we still haven’t even figured out how precisely the human mind works, says Shane Saunderson, a robotics engineer and research fellow at the Human Futures Institute in Toronto.” - Discover
“Why being human means we must be embodied.” - Christianity Today
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