ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

I Was Just Thinking About – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

From 2011 to 2016, CBS produced the TV Series, Person Of Interest, a science-fiction crime drama. It featured an ex-assassin and a wealthy programmer who save lives via computer surveillance – Artificial Intelligence - that sends them the identities of civilians involved in impending crimes. The idea of the program was to intercept that “person of interest” and change the pending negative outcome with a positive result.

In 2007, Stanford University Computer Science Department did an extensive study on Artificial Intelligence. They conclude: “Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs. It is related to the similar task of using computers to understand human intelligence, but AI does not have to confine itself to methods that are biologically observable. Intelligence is the computational part of the ability to achieve goals in the world. Varying kinds and degrees of intelligence occur in people, many animals and some machines.”

The study went on to conclude the obvious: “Computer programs have plenty of speed and memory but their abilities correspond to the intellectual mechanisms that program designers understand well enough to put in programs…The matter is further complicated by the fact that the cognitive sciences still have not succeeded in determining exactly what the human abilities are…this demonstrates that the program designers lack understanding of the intellectual mechanisms required to do the task efficiently.

Is there a Biblical viewpoint regarding Intelligence versus Artificial Intelligence? Jeremiah 9:23-24 (ESV), “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.” An additional thought from Isaiah 29:13-14 (NIV), “These people…their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught…I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.” Lastly, I Corinthians 2:7-10(a), “We declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. As it is written: What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived the things God has prepared for those who love him - these are the things God has revealed to us by his Holy Spirit.” How does God view all of the AI explorations and conclusions? In I Corinthians 3:19-20, “For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written: He catches the wise in their craftiness,” and again: “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.”

Prayerfully – consider these things with me.