ARTIFICIAL GENERAL SUPER-INTELLIGENCE COULD ARRIVE BY 2027, SCIENTIST PREDICTS
(← click) Unless you've been asleep for the past few years, you've likely heard lots of buzz about "AI" – Artificial Intelligence. A little less familiar to the general public is the term "AGI" – Artificial General Intelligence. The first, AI, is collecting huge amounts of data on a given subject, such as programming, or physics, or medicine, then loading up a large database with this data in a structured way according to rules of correct grammar and syntax. Such databases have been around for several years for the legal and medical professions, and now, with voice input and output, you can simply ask a question in ordinary English and hear or read the answer, usually quite correct and exact... but it can "hallucinate" or put the data together incorrectly so that the output may sound plausible but is just plain wrong.
But the second term, AGI, is newer, and means collecting even huger amounts of data on a multitude of fields and train the machine with more refined rules so that the output is very precise on any of these multitude of fields and matches the best of expert knowledge of any one human individual in any of these fields, "general" knowledge on many, many topics. But the newest term that's just now popping up is "AGSI" – Artificial General Super-Intelligence. This is such a vast collection of data on every conceivable field of knowledge – virtually all that has been recorded over the course of human history – combined with rules of logic, grammar, and syntax in a multitude of languages, so that you can ask it anything in almost any language and it will reply in that language and in a way superior to any human being in any field of expertise whatsoever. Many AI experts have stated this is decades away, some have predicted it within a decade or so, but the above headline says it's just around the corner, in about 18 to 30 months. Here's a summary of the above article:
"A leading AI expert, Ben Goertzel, predicts artificial general intelligence (AGI) could arrive as early as 2027, evolving rapidly into artificial superintelligence (AGSI or ASI). Goertzel believes human-level AGI is plausible within the next 3-8 years, potentially leading to a rapid intelligence explosion. Others, like Shane Legg and Geoffrey Hinton, have made similar predictions about the timeline for AGI, albeit with varying degrees of confidence. Goertzel emphasizes that recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have increased the possibility of AGI, but LLMs alone won't create it. Goertzel speculates that once AGI reaches human level, it could quickly become radically more intelligent, potentially leading to a singularity or intelligence explosion. The prediction comes with caveats, noting that AI's 'mind' might not be similar to a human mind, and the technology's development may not follow a linear, isolated path."
Another article, "AGI TO ARRIVE 'MUCH SOONER' THAN IN 2-3 YEARS: SOFTBANK’S MASAYOSHI SON," by the head of Softbank, a leading AI firm, basically implies that AGI may be already here, kept in wraps somewhere. During my time in military intelligence 60 years ago, we were using computers that the outside world didn't even know existed until several years later when IBM introduced them to the business world. So I can easily surmise that right now the government and the intelligence community already have AGSI, they already know almost everything about everything and everyone in the world. What's going on here?
Rod Dreher, in his recent article on Substack, "Tom Cruise Vs. The Anti-God," wrote – "the world is endangered by a super-powerful AI, called 'The Entity,' which has gone rogue, and seeks to exterminate much of humanity and to enslave the survivors." And, of course, Tom Cruise will save the world. It should be obvious to the average Christian that the "Anti-God" is none other than the Antichrist. This indicates how much the Christian idea of a personification of evil has seeped even into mass pop culture. An example from Dreher's article:
"In the opening sequence of the new film, we learn that The Entity has so thoroughly infected and seized control of the global Internet that nobody really knows what truth and reality are anymore – and that the world is headed towards war. It seems that The Entity is manipulating reality – which is to say, narratives about reality – to turn people and nations against each other. Its final task is to infect the arsenals of the world’s nuclear powers, to unleash global Armageddon."
Newsweek online recently ran the article, "Do We Have a Moral Obligation To AI Because of Evolution?" As you might notice, here's another mention of the personification of a machine. But we only can have moral obligations to real persons, not to a machine or an ideology such as evolution. It seems clear that people are beginning to view AI as more than a machine, rather, as a supernatural entity that inhabits a machine.
When something is so complex that most people can't comprehend it, they begin to view it as magic. That "Entity" isn't the machine itself, instead it inhabits it and the smart but godless people using our modern enchantment by technology to control what goes into our minds: millions and millions of people are already addicted to and controlled by their smartphones, and now AI has been added to our phones. If/when those who control this false Wizard-of-Oz-god exterminate humanity, they won't have any people left to maintain the vast computer servers and networks: they didn't ever really need the servers – they're only a mask to hide behind as they seize power to install their transhumanist fantasy to build sandcastles in the sky, to inhabit other planets, solar systems, and galaxies. But if there are no more regular people to pay for these "services," it simply will not happen, the whole system collapses.
Here's the blurb about Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity, a book that's set to be released this September:
How a force that’s hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be human.
In Against the Machine, “furiously gifted” (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original—and terrifying—account of the technological-cultural matrix enveloping all of us. With masterful insight into the spiritual and economic roots of techno-capitalism, Kingsnorth reveals how the Machine, in the name of progress, has choked Western civilization, is destroying the Earth itself, and is reshaping us in its image. From the First Industrial Revolution to the rise of artificial intelligence, he shows how the hollowing out of humanity has been a long game—and how your very soul is at stake.
It takes effort to remain truly human in the age of the Machine. Writing in the tradition of Wendell Berry, Jacques Ellul and Simone Weil, Kingsnorth reminds us what humanity requires: a healthy suspicion of entrenched power; connection to land, nature and heritage; and a deep attention to matters of the spirit. Prophetic, poetic, and erudite, Against the Machine is the spiritual manual for dissidents in the technological age.
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We absolutely must break our minds and souls free from captivity to "The Machine"! Therefore, let's get back down to earth: "Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones. Behold, children are a heritage of the Lord. The fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They will not be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate" (Psalm 127). Our only true hope is not from the government, or from technology, or modern socialized medicine, or any of today's "isms" – Our true hope is in the Lord, in His Church, and in His holy Scriptures. As I wrote in the conclusion of HOW TO STOP THE FALLING BIRTH RATE, "with an increasing growth of the conservative Christian population and a decline of the liberal secular humanist population, the birth rate will begin to climb again. Women on average will have more babies, they will not let them be indoctrinated into secular humanism, but will teach them the moral values that will make society prosper again. 'Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth!'"
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