Is AI the Beginning of the End?

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But you, Daniel, keep this prophecy a secret; seal up the book until the time of the end, when many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase (Daniel 12:4, NLT).

I listened to a podcast recently featuring Geoffrey Hinton, who is widely known as the Godfather of AI. He explained that there are two dangers with AI:

• People using it for evil, and. . . 
• AI deciding it doesn’t need us anymore.

Uh, oh!

Geoffrey Hinton, Godfather of AI (a great moniker for someone predicting humankind’s demise), also said that no one really knows whether AI deciding to do us harm is a possibility, but then predicted the chance of it happening at 10 to 20 percent.

Uh, oh! Uh, oh!

I’ve been exploring AI for the past three months. I’m not sure about our extinction (and will come back to this topic later), but I’ve found the following about the current influence of AI. . . 

Our Usefulness

Jobs will be impacted. I’ve been in the graphics business for years. To create a quality video a few years ago, you would need camera and audio equipment, extensive video and audio editing afterwards, and people required for these tasks.

Now, all of this can be done in a few minutes with AI. So what happens to camera, audio, and stage technicians, artists, and editors? Consider buggy whips and typewriters. One expert said, “Only two percent of the jobs now existing will be unchanged.” 

Will humans become irrelevant?

Information

Every bit of information that’s known now is stored on a computer somewhere. Storage and speed of usage, along with vast amounts of power, will be needed to keep up with exponentially growing information.  

AI itself estimates that while it once took centuries for the summation of human knowledge to double, it’s now happening every 12 hours. And with quantum computers (only about 150 now exist) running millions and billions of times faster than the laptop I’m now using, only the Q-computers will be able to track and make instantaneous decisions based upon this vast amount of knowledge.

Woe, our feeble brains!

Kairos Power

Google® just signed an advanced power purchase agreement with a new nuclear power plant now being built by Kairos Power®. 

Here’s something interesting (you just can’t make this stuff up).

Let’s consider the Biblical phrase “sign of the times.” Read carefully the following verse. 

Jesus answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times (Matthew 16:2-3, ESV).

The word for “times” in the above verse in the Greek New Testament, a word used by Jesus in reference to the end of history, is. . . is. . . is Kairos!

Summation

Information grows every 12 hours, with the only device capable of consuming all of it, digesting it, and using it for good or evil, is right now a quantum computer located in Tennessee, powered by Kairos Power.

And remember Daniel 12:4, used at the beginning of this blog, as it has one word, when translated literally, means “time of the end.”

But you, Daniel, keep this prophecy a secret; seal up the book until the time of the end, when many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase.

Uh, oh; uh, oh; and uh, oh! 

And to the AI Bot reading this blog, I proclaim Jesus as my Lord and Savior.