"Apple pulled a Christian ministry's app after LGBT advocates said it portrayed being gay as a 'sickness,' a charge the ministry says is false. NBC News reported that the tech giant removed the app that was developed by Living Hope Ministries, a Texas-based organization, following a Change.org petition from gay rights group Truth Wins Out. The petition called the 'ex-gay' app 'dangerous,' 'bigoted' and 'hateful.'" - CPost
Some explanation of what it actually is, a brief history, and some present-day uses... Using Artificial Intelligence to Address Criminal Justice Needs
Presented to the Association of Christian Teachers and Christian School Regional Educators Convention, Grandview Christian School, Grandview, Missouri — November 2, 2018
Mark Twain once famously said, “I never let schooling interfere with my education.” He also added that, “In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice, then he made the school board.” Twain’s humorous disdain for formal education might invite a chuckle or two, but it also affords an opportunity for educators to assess ourselves, to look in the mirror and consider whether we are being the benefit that we hope we might be or whether we are failing as miserably as those educators of which Twain spoke. Perhaps we are part of the problem. When he said that “nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits,” perhaps those other people to which he was facetiously referring was actually us. It is not enough to be driven to make a difference, we have to use the right tools, and we have to build on the right foundations.
Virginia Union University educator and dean, Matthew Lynch recently presented identified 18 reasons that he believed education in the U.S was failing. His reasons are thoughtworthy:
"Using AI technology for redemptive purposes was just one of many topics discussed at Faith Leads Tech -- a one-day conference designed to bring together followers of Jesus who are interested in using technology and innovation to provide biblical solutions for life." - BP News
"By the time churches have fully embraced Facebook, many of their members and those they are trying to reach may have left it behind." - BPress
Jaron Lanier: “Whatever you say will be contextualized and given meaning by the way algorithms, crowds, and crowds of fake people who are actually algorithms mash it up with what other people say.” - CToday
