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Am I the only one seeing the religious undertones here? :) > “What is the answer to life, the Universe and everything? What did you mean when you said now I kn
by augustl 6y ago
Am I the only one seeing the religious undertones here? :)
> “What is the answer to life, the Universe and everything? What did you mean when you said now I know but I’m too young to understand? How can I understand the answer but not the question?”
> The father put on a condescending smirk as he thought to himself, “I came up with the theory of everything. How dare a child doubt it?”
This maps well onto the christian idea of God, the father.
I guess we can read one of two things into this: AI has discovered that God is real, or humanity has discovered that anyone, even AI, can make up religion.
- pmoriarty 6y agoWe are on the cusp of new religions forming around AI. As primitive and nonsensical as GPT-3 is, even in this thread on a site full of technologically literate people we already see some suggesting that GPT-3 is a superintelligence. Imagine how the technologically illiterate and credulous, of which there are many, might react to GPT-4. Also consider what would happen if a similar model was trained not indiscriminately on a hodgepodge of every text its creators could get their hands on, but specifically on oracular and sacred texts. A new religion might spontaneously ignite from that alone, but of course the likelihood increases if the tool gets in to the hands of someone with that intent.