I hate zealots. Fuckin religious twats trying to ruin it for everyone else.
An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
Submitted 3 months ago by LadyButterfly@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
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JigglySackles@lemmy.world 3 months ago
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
The religious right would reject a Christian AI modeled after Jesus as “too woke”.
Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 3 months ago
cycadophyta@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Nothing that a little training data and parameter manipulation can’t fix.
snoons@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
jfc lmao
1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Having to reach waaay back into the memories of my Christian upbringing but I seem to recall that God doesn’t like people who game the system
oh_@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Tech billionaires will totally destroy us all.
obinice@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Fuck yeah, LLMs for the LLM god! All hail the hallowed datacenter! Sacrifice the DNS!
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
I realise you have to be somewhat off the rocker to be a billionaire CEO, but Pat is showing more of that than I expected here.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 months ago
“So GodGPT, is the bible the inerrant word of God?”
> yes
“So why does it contradict itself”
>*explodes in Spr0ing*
kikutwo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Wow, no wonder he failed.
fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 3 months ago
religious loonies will likely be the end of us all.
SparrowHawk@feddit.it 3 months ago
Reclaiming healthy spirituality as a personal practice instead of an institution is the only way to beat them, radical atheism will never work because most people need a connection to the world that goes beyond what’s material. Their mind, ergo their soul (psyche) is immaterial, and selling a worldview that cancels that immateriality isfoomef to fail, leaving them to flock towards snake oil dealers
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
radical atheism will never work because most people need a connection to the world that goes beyond what’s material
What’s “radical” atheism? Atheism is not believing in god(s). How do you exceed that? Believing in infinite negative numbers of non-gods? Or do you mean I’m running around trying to convince everyone I know to be an atheist? I don’t play with model trains, but feel no need to tell everyone I meet that they shouldn’t waste their time with it. Same with religion. Now, if either group tries to coerce me into participating in their favorite pastime, I’ll resist. No sirree Bob, not my job.
And what would “moderate” atheism be? Believing in half a god? Not believing but going out of one’s way to conceal it? That might be a rational strategy to avoid persecution, but it’s not a belief system.
I’m an atheist. I feel a sense of connection to other people and living things and a sense of wonder at nature. I just don’t need an alpha male in the sky to personify it. Lack of something unnecesary is not a deficit. There’s not a huge void in my life where the Easter Bunny should be.
selling a worldview that cancels that immateriality is doomed to fail
I don’t need to assume mythical entities in order to live. If the soul turns out to be a real thing, fine, though there’s no evidence for it so far. If it’s not, that’s fine too. Meanwhile, it’s irrelevant.
oftenawake@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
So glad to read your comment @SparowHawk. This is exactly it, and why I am no longer a hardcore atheist. We can’t connect with anyone while we’re in the middle of telling them that they’re wrong - even if they are completely wrong about factual matters. It’s essential to build connection first, then conduct any education through the connection. Without connecting it’s wasted effort.
The educating can’t come through coercion or condemnation either, because those shut people down. If we don’t offer something better then we push those people away. We might write them off and say “fuck em, who cares!” and that’s how we end up at political deadlock and perpetual war.
This is why the fascists are so terrified of empathy, because intelligent, educated people (lots of those around!) who are highly empathic (not so many, it’s a harder skill) joining together and building connections with and between the masses, already have all the tools to dismantle the whole scam we’re living in.
Empathy and education, from kindness not condemnation, is unstoppable. Though I will grant that there’s not much in it for rugged individualism, but lots in it for diverse, individuality-celebrating collectivism.
Of course we’re supposed to be arguing - we’ll never get anywhere that way.
Empathy lets you say “I absolutely disagree with your view, yet I still value you as a human, so am committed to your long-term wellbeing” and other similar bits of “radical hate speech” which, put into action will dismantle capitalism, fascism, authoritarianism, religions, prisons… you name it.
But it can’t be passive, it is something for each person to be putting into action all the time.
That’s my spiritual practise and I don’t feel personally affronted if someone disagrees with it or doesn’t understand it any more, because it’s just with myself and how I want to be in life with myself and others anyway.
There are billions of us humans and we’re unstoppable when we put aside our petty differences and work together for common dreams.
…besides, if you don’t agree with me, you’re wrong! /s
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 months ago
christians/conservatives fall for scams, ponzi schemes pretty easily. another way to grift these people.
yesman@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The oldest praying automaton we know of is from the 16th Century. This is basically that but with more capitalism.
I can’t help but notice how captured the Christian mind is, when even the return of the Savior is a business opportunity; a revenue stream. These people are already robots who can’t worship without a prospectus and a spread sheet.
toast@retrolemmy.com 3 months ago
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
That thing would make me want to start praying if it’s very existence didn’t prove that there was no god.
zd9@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Deep Christians are the perfect group for grifting, and these evil fucks use that info all the time. It’s like why the “Nigerian Prince” scam is so obvious, it automatically sorts out those that are the easiest dooped, to funnel them into even more money extraction scams.
FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 months ago
There's also prayer wheels going back to the 4th century.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
So that’s what those are for? That’s like saying “I don’t need to go running. Look, I can just draw a stick figure in this book, flip the pages, and he runs for me!”
solrize@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
“Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley.”
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Fundamentalism is inherently opposed to scientific discovery.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I know a lot of engineers who are rational in their work lives, but also have weird cultish beliefs. Compartmentalization and cognitive dissonance are things.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 months ago
ChristAI can miraculously turn anything into shit.
einlander@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Such Christians, acting like they know better than god.
Mathew 24:36
[36]“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,Mathew 24:42-44
42Watch therefore, for you do not know what [g]hour your Lord is coming. 43But know this, that if the master of the house had known what [h]hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. 44Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
I feel like we’re forgetting that this is the apocalypse. He wants to start the apocalypse.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Never forget that Christians think that the apocalypse is a good thing.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
That’s because their lives are so shitty that they want to end them, but they’re too scared of hellfire to call it suicide.
1984@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Is this irony or something? Use Ai to get closer to god? Its the exact opposite people need to do.
CPMSP@midwest.social 3 months ago
Help me! I broke apart my insides!
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Just corporations trying to bring on the apocalypse so they don’t have to pay a little more in taxes.
Normal stuff
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Pay no attention to the ex-Intel CEO behind the curtain.
drhodl@lemmy.world 3 months ago
And I didn’t think I could loathe religion, and those weak willed enough to need it, more. Thanks Patrick, you superstitious cunt!
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
This is Christianity.
Naevermix@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Christians fundamentalists in charge of finding new exciting ways to kill themselves and take everyone else with them in the process.
SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I don’t believe in thier imaginary God. And I won’t worship thier Robot one.
Amoxtli@thelemmy.club 3 months ago
Judging by comments, people do seem to have a problem with religion.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I wouldn’t mind it if they’d stop fucking oppressing people
echodot@feddit.uk 3 months ago
And the kids. It would be really nice if they could leave the kids alone.
olympicyes@lemmy.world 3 months ago
People can accept the religions of others, particularly if it motivates them to be better people, help others, or find inner peace. If you don’t share this guys specific religious views, then it appears he’s actively trying to bring about the end of the world.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Apocalyptic religions? Where the apocalypse is a good thing? Those are scary.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oh, I do. Absolutely. And I could list a thousand reasons why.
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I have a problem with these people exploiting and weaponizing my religion for their own profit. Not that they’re the first to do it, but it’s even more ridiculous to grow up and see the hypocritical “traditionalists” joining forces with hypocritical technocrats.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
“We’re building the Eschaton Immanentising Machine, from the famous theological treatise ‘Don’t Immanentise the Eschaton’”
(Also, using LLMs sounds a lot less efficient than the exhaustive search described in The Nine Billion Names of God)
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I for one welcome our Lord and saviour Jesus ChrAIst
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 3 months ago
Yeah sure why not, it’s not like they’re trying to be taken serious anymore…
Knightfox@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Honestly didn’t know that Gelsinger was a bible thumper, after his time at Intel I figured he’d just retire and disappear.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 3 months ago
He missed this commandment: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image”
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Hastening the coming? He needs to reread the bible then.
“But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” - Matthew 24:36
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If more Christians would read the bible, there’d be less Christians.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I was brought up Catholic. The Dominican brothers taught me to think critically. Now I’m not a Catholic, or any kind of Christian, anymore.
And for the fractally schismatic fundamentalist Protestants, they stopped adhering to a Christian belief system over a century ago. Very little that they believe has any connection to Christianity, and most of it contradicts core beliefs. For them, it’s just a tribal identity. “We’re the chosen people and everyone else is wrong.”
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
They think that they can force God’s hand. They’re that arrogant.
Anyway, the whole fundie end-times narrative is late 19th-century fanfic. It not only contradicts their scriptures, it’s also incoherent and badly written. At least Dante, when he made things up, was consistent with the core beliefs, as well as his work being far better-written and more coherent than the source literature. But the Rapture is just the rantings of tent-show shysters. Even bronze-age shepherds did better.
GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 3 months ago
The week, on the other hand, is fair game.
Sounds ridiculous, but apologists will literally say this.