CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – I spoke yesterday about the chaos bot. It’s artificial intelligence. It’s mission: to find a way to destroy mankind.
More about that in a moment.
First, recall Genesis, Chapter 11. People are building a huge tower, so tall that it would reach into the heavens. But God saw that the people were prideful. They were not building a tower to be closer to Him. They wanted to elevate themselves to be gods. And the Almighty confused their language, and when they could no longer communicate with each other, construction stopped. It is the story of the Tower of Babel.
Now I’m not opposed to artificial intelligence. It can research topics for things like these commentaries. It can do it faster… better… than I can. And that’s a good thing. It’s a tool that can help me create better content. It potentially frees up more of my time for things that a computer can’t do.
But the creativity – the ideas – are mine. People tell me that AI can write, in the same style that I write. I’m still not worried. It’s merely a facsimile of my work. I’m told that AI can create art, write plays, compose music. But creativity is still in the human realm. Computers can copy and merge and combine things that humans have brought into being.
So I’m told that a time is coming when man and machine will be one. No. I have no interest in melding with a machine whose only advantage over me is speed and accuracy. That I will always be slower than a computer is good. That’s the time where we think and contemplate. That a computer doesn’t make math errors doesn’t impress me. It can do the thousands of calculations to send a rocket into space. But the desire to explore is human.
Some people tell me that artificial intelligence will perfect us. It won’t. It’s our Tower of Babel. Mankind creates this magnificent technology, and someone creates the chaos bot, with the purpose of destroying us.
Remember, God did not create us to be perfect. Mankind is designed to be fallabile. As we leap into this brave new world, remember God created us and determined his creation was ‘good’. God loves you. God doesn’t love a computer.
Chris Conley
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