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2024, click above link to jump to latest entry)
Apr09
2024 is our third year of framing current "AI" developments around
Algorithm Integrity. What provoked this entry today is the news
that Elon Musk is reported to have stated on X (twitter) that the pace
of compute power growth devoted to pursuing artificial intelligence is
growing by an order of magnitude approximately every 9 months. If
true, this is an astonishing pace. Consider the first exponential
growth "rule" proposed by Gordon Moore in the 1960s - Moore's Law -
which accurately predicted the pace of semiconductor capability
development as doubling every 18 months. Can one say that Elon's
rule is 10x Moore's Law (5x the rate in half the time)? I am not
sure about that comparison, but the point is that the onrushing machine
advancement in the area of generative software trained on ever growing
databases of human knowledge, capabile of transforming ever more
sophisticated prompts into what seems like machine sentience, is moving
at the fastest exponential growth rate so far experienced by
humankind.
This naturally leads most commentators to speculate on how such
technology will impact our world (our world being fleshly human
existence on planet earth (and perhaps soon, nearby planets and
moons)). Most immediately leap to the idea that machine
intelligence will overwhelm man, maybe within the next 18-24
months. But stop right here! Nothing developed so far, or
possible to develop on the present path of "AI" evolution will ever
reach, much less surpass, humans having Spirit of God infused
hearts. Human life is NOT the result of eons of random
happenstance. The Bible tells us By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host (Psalm 33:6). Nothing has changed from Federico Faggin's observation
in his book "Silicon" which I reviewed two years ago. His
conclusion then was that computers canNOT replicate human
consciousness. I extend that now to include GPT technology - tech
that combines vast databases with algorithms to review the entire
contents of such databases, identify the salient entries per the prompt
inputs, and generate ever more human like responses.
Of course, those with no anchor in the divine creation are easily fooled.