Technology

“Historically, it has been argued that viability is a factor in determining the moral status of abortion. Ectogenesis makes it so that all fetuses are viable.” - DBTS Blog

“Anyone could build their own “web site” with pictures, video and sound. They could even send visitors to other sites using hyperlinked words or phrases underlined in blue.” - NPR

“Recently, a number of prominent tech executives, including Elon Musk, signed an open letter urging a 6-month pause on all AI research.” - Breakpoint

“…if I find social media that refreshes me, as I sometimes do, I go for it. If it just drains and discourages or irritates me, I need to stay away.” - Randy Alcorn

“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

“More than twice as many Americans support the U.S. government banning TikTok as oppose it (50% vs. 22%), though a sizable share (28%) are not sure” - Pew

“According to Dyer’s survey, 45 percent of evangelicals use their phones to read Scripture ‘devotionally.’ That number drops to 22 percent when the activity is ‘long reading,’ 17.3 percent for ‘memorization,’ and only 6 percent for ‘study’ ” - TGC

“it’s increasingly difficult to talk to anyone when everybody is wearing headphones or ear pods…We communicate via texts—and even then often without complete words. In fact, we speak with emojis quite often” - Chuck Lawless

“So far, what it has produced ranges from the impressive to the hilarious. It is also forcing a series of existential crises. For example, teachers are scrambling to discern the work of their students from the work of compelling AI counterfeits.” - Breakpoint

“AI will be adapted. Conversational AI or ‘large language models’ like the ones used in ChatGPT will continue to improve. ChatGPT 4 is coming out later this year, which has about 100 times more parameters in the neural networks than 3.5” - TGC