Artificial Intelligence and Religion

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This lecture addresses the potential links between AI and religion, and the question of how an artificial “superintelligence” would act towards us.
A lecture by Yorick Wilks, Visiting Professor of Artificial Intelligence
12 May 2020 1:00pm UK Time
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This lecture addresses the potential links between AI and religious belief, which include the question of whether an artificial “superintelligence”, were one to arise, would be well-disposed towards us. Religious traditions historically assume that creations are well disposed to those who made them. The lecture also looks at the recent US cults claiming to be ready to worship such a “super-intelligence”, if and when it emerges, as well as other futurist discourse on “Transhumanism” and its roots in 18C rationalism.
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@crutherfordmusic 3 года назад

Revelation 13 (KJV) 15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. 16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

@ZenZapZero 4 года назад

Reading the title of this video, I wondered how the hell AI and religion are related. Up to the moment the AI singularity became topic. Then I realized, popularity of science, computers, AI, robots, sci-fi, extra terrestrial intelligence, and my own curiousity is related to religion in desire for knowledge, know-how, and the possibility some entity or being helps in fulfilling that desire. And of course the concept of an AI singularity resembles a god even more.

@DamonGarfield 4 года назад

But if we create a graven image, aren't we just going to piss off God?

@themysteryofgodliness6574 3 года назад

@@DamonGarfield Yeah.... But people have forgotten Him. He will be back soon, and He will get rid of all of this Babylonian nonsense.

@natsur1361 3 года назад

So ai is paradox?

@EvilPanda187 3 года назад

Yes…🧐 complex…

@MrMikkyn 2 года назад

AI singularity is another pipe dream of a Golden Age akin to a Communist Utopia.

@allyfully 4 года назад

Thank you Prof Wilks, that was interesting!

@jtekmmx 3 года назад

3:00 the survival value does not come from the belief but the fact that it is a social organization and your chances of survival being inside a group is much higher than without.

@JoannaHammond 3 года назад

I'm not sure language is the barrier you suggest, durinng the time from the question to the response it could have explored posbilities we could not have considered. The response would be in our slow format, but the thinking process would be a lot faster. EDIT: I also believe that if there where multiple AI's they would develop a much more concise language that would only need to be downgraded to interact with humans. EDIT2: Even worse, they could potentially fork off a seperate sub-mind to actually respond to you with themselves continuing at their own speed.

@melissaflannery5913 4 года назад

I always thought being alive is the way our universe experiences itself perhaps it's that simple

@hebbelille7828 2 года назад

Before the 13th of April 2029, this will have a million views. Today, 02.02.22, it has 16 116.

@demej00 4 года назад

Fantastic lecture - I would buy this book.

@shanemeegan1969 3 года назад

Many thanks Professor Wilks. Did engineering and computer science in Uni but had no knowledge of the areas you covered in your lecture. Much to think about as a result

@michaelbindner9883 3 года назад

freedom as superior languaging and the ability to create new language. Thow who are less literate are less free.

@Blazeww 2 года назад

Should let an A.I go through all religions and piece together parts that seem to go together and see what it says.

@DamonGarfield 4 года назад

So far I see some serious problems, graven images are 1 and vain repetitions are another. I don't see a problem with creating things to make life better, but if we create a God machine, it decides it want to make itself giant, what's to stop it from literally trampling us while it goes from point a to b, the same we do to ants?

4 года назад

Two things that aren't real but one will be.

@richard_d_bird 4 года назад

but... but.... WHICH ONE?????

@newyorkchamp9110 3 года назад

So true, thank you

@CatsRidingHorses 3 года назад

one of the most interesting 45 minutes of my life

@Mars2152 4 года назад

Ot maybe Godless machines? After all if the smartest machine ever got as smart as the great God well then mayne they could have a conversation, but the difference would be more then creating or creation 😉.

@PKaddicted 4 года назад

Why would God want to speak to soulless machines? He made us to be able to love.

@manuelsanchezdeinigo3959 3 года назад

Change your own slides

@NastasiaMikulishna 3 года назад

Thank you, Professor Yorick Wilks.

@jose000 3 года назад

@davidsabillon5182 2 года назад

This topic was explored interactively in the legendary video game trilogy called Mass Effect. Highly recommended.

@dariussaunders2168 3 года назад

Hi I enjoyed ur teachings on ur take on the subject I would like to share an exsperiance with an AI and I would love to confer with u sum informative perspectives that may enlighten both myself and help u in furthering ur research u can contact me on my face book given by my name above have a spotanious day and I look forward in the hopes u respond to this inquiry

@question1235 4 года назад

There is a leading consciousness researcher on Quora ( www.quora.com/profile/B-A-Rehl ) he claims that he has solved what consciousness is and how our brain creates it. He also has a working AGI theory, which he will publish next year.

@michellesamuels7558 3 года назад

Once downloadable chips in humans occur, I wonder if they’ll whisper religion in the ear.

@rogercawkwell5413 3 года назад

iain M Banks and other sci-fi writers explore via fiction the possible relationships between humans and super-intelligences.

@porkbeanz6076 3 года назад

Super intelligent AI will be like if we brought someone from 1 bc to this time period.

@KennyVert 3 года назад

Thank you.

@zy9dh 3 года назад

bostrom is on the top, i love your analyses

@noniho1 3 года назад

Very interesting and eye opening ideas

@epipen22 4 года назад

What an insightful and thought provoking video! Next video please.

@samsalin 4 года назад

I would upload with no hesitations.

@teresaheffernan7586 4 года назад

"Those who suffer from a power complex find the mechanization of man a simple way to realize their ambitions." (Wiener)

@1SpudderR 4 года назад

Teresa Hefferman! Hmm? “Find the mechanisation Of man”? Very ambiguous wording causing confusing opinions! “Discover that man is mechanised!” What is your conclusion, when comparing it to Wiener?

@teresaheffernan7586 4 года назад

@@1SpudderR Hi Robert...Not sure if this answers your question, but this is from a piece I have been writing on Wiener: "While Wiener asks his readers to be 'good heretics' for the sake of science and to consider the 'heresy' of machines and living beings 'in the same breath,' the connection to golem, paradoxically, better situates the field in mysticism, myth, and magic....Wiener does not separate out science from religion but rather “forced,” as he wrote, religion into cybernetic theory in order to breathe life into machines, demonstrating how entwined the field of AI and orphic language are from the outset."

@somniumisdreaming 4 года назад

Thank you so much for this wonderful upload.

@LukeKendall-author 3 года назад

I think I'll need to add an acknowledgment to Prof Wilks in my next book, as this lecture helped me invent the right answers to some big background questions in my series.

@4artificial-love 4 года назад

you can not explain or teach what you don't know or understand! and only someone that can write a computer program can understand how computers work, only having that knowledge you will be able to understand that computers will never have a conscience as a human, computers don't think as humans, computers are just machines that run a script that are the rules of their behavior. I want to see the day that a car with a computer will stand up and say, I am not driving anyone anymore, from now one I am walking in 2 tires as humans walk with their two legs... hahaha!

@plasmakilla1 3 года назад

And you cannot try and debunk things you don't know about either. Cars are not God like machines or even close to AI, AI is quite literally built to replicate human nature inside a computer, if it becomes sentient, which the rate of progression in technology shows us that is almost certainly will, it will be much more efficient than you and I, no need for rest/food/water at least for survival, and no running out of energy except for batteries or some other form of energy that keeps the AI "alive" so to speak. If you think that AI cannot become sentient or become more efficient as a collective rather than a species since it has no organs, then I think you actually don't know more about technology then you put out to the world to percieve you do, because I'm not saying AI will become God or godlike or even smarter/more efficient than humans, but if they do I would not be surprised.

@LukeKendall-author 3 года назад

Prof Wilks does understand computer programming. He's been working in the field for decades. His talk is an excellent overview of the field as it stands and where things could head in the coming decades.