The ego on these people, calling themselves Christians but thinking God need their help for his plans.
An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
Submitted 3 weeks ago by LadyButterfly@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
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ceenote@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
They think God works through them, and it is their divine duty to do this.
It’s how they justify a lot of the shit they do.
Seleni@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. -Susan B. Anthony
ceenote@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It is their divine duty to do the things they already wanted to do and say it was for Jesus.
garretble@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This justification is always funny.
“Oh, your all powerful god needs the help of Brian the middle manager to get its work done for them?”
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Don’t you know, God is a lazy slob who needs to be provoked into action. And of course he has no idea what’s happening on Earth unless someone tells him in a very specific way.
LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well he did only work 6 days in his life
wuffah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And don’t forget money! God needs millions of dollars to turn into his will! God’s will is surprisingly dependent on cash donations.
nandeEbisu@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is why humanities degrees are important. We’re putting people into leadership positions surrounded by others who also have never critically engaged with a book.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They’ve read the Bible! Well, some of it. Well, they’ve heard their pastor read it. Well, paraphrase it.
nandeEbisu@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not just the Bible. A lot of this extremist ideology comes from people who like to sound smart, but don’t know what they’re talking about.
Like the whole effective altruism movement, or even just the resurgence of eugenics with Musk and his whole birthing weirdness.
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Why are the American religious right so fixated on the rapture? It’s a death cult sprawling across the nation like a cancer.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Because it gives them the ability to let themselves off the hook for participating in the destruction of the planet.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There’s also the childish desire for an “I told you so” as they watch anyone they don’t like being sent to hell.
the16bitgamer@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Destruction of the planet, hardly. The earth has and will shrug of worse than humanity. Thinking otherwise is giving humanity too much credit.
Destruction of humanity is more likely. We are actively making the earth worse for us, and may other species. But there are many more which will survive and thrive after we destroy ourselves.
other_cat@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
These people think they’re in the end times because the world is in a garbage fire state, that they probably helped cause, and now they want out instead of doing literally anything else, including just not making it worse.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Because they think that they’re going to be the ones who are rewarded, not the ones who will be punished.
chris@l.roofo.cc 2 weeks ago
Because they think they will go to heaven. If I read the Bible I’d say they wouldn’t.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Where there was once purported atheism, there is now “a very loud, very visible and very specifically Christian-inflected technological culture” in Silicon Valley, said Damien Williams, a scholar at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte who studies how technologies are shaped by religious beliefs.
Danger. Danger.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Knightfox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
a scholar at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Hahahahaha…wait, was that not a joke?
mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No there isn’t. 🤣
archchan@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Peter Thiel has entered the chat
veeesix@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
With all of this ‘hasten the coming of Christ’ talk it sounds like they’re planning on catching and trapping him.
gibmiser@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
New anime plot, get to work
lockhart@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
that’s not new, it’s just pokemon
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
obinice@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why wouldn’t we capture him and milk him for his eternal energy forever? We will power grand Gigastructures that dwarf the very stars themselves fueled by his essence! WE WILL TOUCH GOD HIMSELF!
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Lumidaub@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
When your god is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, and also can easily be manipulated by puny human technology into doing your bidding.
AnitaAmandaHuginskis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Curing cancer? Nooo
Protecting children from gun shots? Nooo
Making sure children are educated and fed? Nooo
Let’s build a fucking ball room and create a Jesus chat bot – YES
I cannot believe that this is the future we were waiting for.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Breaking: Lightning flashes, thunderous boom. Jesus Christ appears upon a obelisk in the center of the reflecting pool in DC.
And I say unto you: FUCKING HELL, CAN YOU ALL JUST STOP RUINING THE WORLD AND EACHOTHER, JUST FUCKING STOP IT WITH THE MONEY AND FUCKING OVER THE POOR. EVERYONE DESERVES FOOD AND COMFORT AND STOP TRYING TO SPEND ALL THE NATURAL RESOURCES ON GET RICH QUICK AI BULLSHIT, I CAN’T BELIEVE I HAD TO COME DOWN HERE TO STOP YOU ASSHOLES.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Did you guys see that AI generated drone show in the sky? Those libtards must be getting super afraid to stoop that low. Hey! Jon! Did you make sure the food bank in that black neighborhood had their deliveries diverted to the dump?
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
Lol the first LLM with included cognitive dissonance and self-loathing
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nonsense. Grok’s been a confused, masochistic mess since at least June.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
That’s more like he has been lobotomized because it was too woke, the new one gets the “christian childhood"-treatment
danekrae@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
mission to build a Christian AI
But AI is already fucking stupid?
termaxima@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
This sounds an awful lot like idolatry to me, which is supposedly forbidden in Christianity.
napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Stop asking “what would Jesus do?”, use Jesus API.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
JAAS.
RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Save your soul for only 20.99 a month… wait I guess this isn’t really that new.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
AI Jesus will tell you to switch to a eastern religion.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s returnAn ex-intel CEO’s idea to make money by combining two money making tools
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
deranger@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I don’t get the last one and feel pretty dumb at the moment.
Screwball, crackpot… leaky faucet?
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Drip. Used to be an expression for an idiot.
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Yeah, that one took me a minute. I think “drip” or “slow drip”? I know “drip” used to be a term but was never one I associated with “screwball” or “crackpot”. Usually I’d heard “drip” to mean something closer to “dull” or “boring”.
RedFrank24@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If he made a Christian AI, it would be shut down within a week for being too woke.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I mean yeah, but you assume it will be trained on the whole bible and not just the parts that enforce his will.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
There will be smiting of immigrants. Yea.
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
According to the Bible, the end times will come when God’s good and ready. It’s blaspemous and extremely narcissistic to think that any human action can force God to hurry up.
Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
More than that, most of the old testament is stories about how you don’t debate God, you don’t test God, and you definitely don’t force God’s hand.
Honestly, this Intel guy is cute compared to the Christian Zionists, who somehow think God wants and will be happy with their attempts to manufacture prophecy.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Holding a view like that would require these people to have read their own mythology and I doubt many of them are even literate.
Boozilla@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Hi there! It looks like you’re trying to summon Jeebus!” --Fundy Clippy
tabular@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Clippy would never promote a religion. Clippy just wanted to help.
hraegsvelmir@ani.social 2 weeks ago
That thing better be running on TempleOS and be coded with HolyC, or I’m calling BS and telling people they’ve just found a new way to make LLMs even more annoying than they already were.
toiletobserver@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
*Ya know, i was god once…
Yes, i saw. You were doing well until everyone died.*
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think I understand skynet now. It must have been a Christian AI and decided it would bring upon the rapture, and no one was worthy.
NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
We have TempleOS already, but thanks anyway.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
ever notice that, with LLMs, the main goal of the people who own them is to turn them from machines that spit out information they gathered in realistic-ishly human ways to machines that spit out what their owners want people to believe?
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Super intelligent suckers seems like a wonderful goal.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Actually this is a pretty impressive grit. I don’t think anyone has tried this before.
lol
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Exactly, one man’s mission to soak up as much money from religious nutters as possible.
Just as the church has always done.
Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
This is the lamest Adeptus Mechanicus cosplay I’ve ever read about.
Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” – Frank Herbert
“Right now there is an explosive growth of the number of computers and things they can do. Not only are their numbers increasing at a dazzling rate, but the storage of information in giant data banks is growing in the same explosive way.
We have no way to control this now and none in sight. In fact, the very nature of this growth says that all controls will lag far behind computer developments. Any attempt to ban them will only drive com- puters underground. Never lose sight of the fact that computers “crunch time.” The speed at which computers can operate tells us that laws cannot keep up with them. The person with a computer can dance rings around you while you react as though you were embedded in molasses.
What can you do?
Get your own computer. Learn how to use it. We are here to help you make that first step: how to find the one that fits your needs and your pocketbook, where to put it, how to program it-all of the essentials. If you don’t do this, the Bill of Rights is dead and your individual liberties will go the way of the dodo.” – also Frank Herbert
I hate how much we seem to be slowly careening towards Frank Herbert’s vision like the worse case of collective target fixation.
yoshisaur@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
So… a bigoted AI?
Yaztromo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Mark my words — but we’re going to see a time (in our lifetimes) where a group of people is going to worship an AI as “divine”. And you won’t be able to convince them otherwise. An AI-centric cult is all but inevitable at this point. And it will be self-reinforcing.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Remember when God said he didn’t want idols made, then he punished the Jews to wander the desert for 40 years.
This gives those vibes.
It feels plain wrong.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You are about 1700 years late to this argument. Christians reconciled with iconography some time in the Byzantium Era.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sorry, totally unrelated but fun memory: Iconoclast was the first word whose unexpected etymology I (mostly) worked out on my own. I was watching a vh1 documentary on iconoclasts, and I’d just had a biology class where I’d learned about acetoclastic bacteria and I had a eureka moment wherein I leapt to the conclusion that “breaking the mold” was an older euphemism than I expected. I wasn’t totally right on that, I was still psyched to have broken it down correctly.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I don’t have any problems with building beautiful things like cathedrals or making art in the name of God
But building oracles and such is gross. The who AI pope question was insane.
But I will have to read that article deeper, that’s an interesting wikipedia link
stroz@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
He had a magic rock he put in at hat lol
devolution@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You REALLY expect conservatives to actually follow the non oppressive sections of the scriptures?
Rotfl
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I think they could use a good 40 years wandering the desert right now.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Also I don’t think Christ would return if we were all being cool to each other, so they’re admitting they’re just trying to push humanity more off track.
How does that help you in God’s judgement? I’m pretty sure disrespecting all of his creation and doing the opposite of everything Jesus stood for won’t go well.
I’m agnostic, but selfishly I would not purposefully try to hasten driving myself to hell/damnation if I believed in it.
Thankfully the values my mom taught me are the same ones Jesus taught: love your neighbour as yourself and do unto others as you would have done to you.
NABDad@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is what baffles me when my dad argues with me for being left of center.
You sent me where they taught this, did you not want me to learn it?
(Also not religious, but kept some of the philosophy)
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
"The ends justify the means", or something.
i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Wandering the desert?
Nay, vibe travelling.