I feel like what was once called magic, then became God and now becomes AI. An all-encompassing term for all things inexplicable and complex and a handy backdoor to give up the burden of decision making and critical thinking. I fear it will soon, like God, become an ultimate, unquestionable instance: "Chatgpt tone me so, so it must be true "
Thinking about God increases acceptance of AI in decision-making
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#42I would expect the implications to be different depending on which God spinoff they are talking about.
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#43This makes intuitive sense to me (not that that means anything). Adherents to a traditional God Hypothesis would be predisposed to believe that humans need advice and guidance from a mysterious force beyond themselves and that such forces exist. A recent related development I find interesting is the rise in apparent AI/LLM Apologetics. Nearly every discussion thread about LLMs I read lately includes numerous posters…
Your first comment just reminds me of these magic 8-balls. It's a randomized thing, but it's some kind of impartial feedback.
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#44In the game Deus Ex (2000) you can find a secret room that contains an artificial intelligence you can talk to. The dialogue tries to make connections between religious deities and artificial intelligences. https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1glq98/deus_ex2000_a... Morpheus: "The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.…
Right before the credits for the relevant ending, the screen reads: "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." -- Voltaire This game also introduced me to Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon, from an optional dialogue with a bartender in a hidden area in the hong kong game map.
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Re: Thinking about God increases acceptance of AI in decision-making
#45In the game Deus Ex (2000) you can find a secret room that contains an artificial intelligence you can talk to. The dialogue tries to make connections between religious deities and artificial intelligences. https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1glq98/deus_ex2000_a... Morpheus: "The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.…
Right before the credits for the relevant ending, the screen reads: "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." -- Voltaire This game also introduced me to Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon, from an optional dialogue with a bartender in a hidden area in the hong kong game map.
...I completely forgot that I was also introduced to Last and First Men by that same dialogue in Deus Ex. It's a great book!
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#46Proof that PNAS will publish anything for a few clicks.
Re: Thinking about God increases acceptance of AI in decision-making
#47I feel like what was once called magic, then became God and now becomes AI. An all-encompassing term for all things inexplicable and complex and a handy backdoor to give up the burden of decision making and critical thinking. I fear it will soon, like God, become an ultimate, unquestionable instance: "Chatgpt tone me so, so it must be true "
Yeah, when people lack understanding they come up with stupidity to have a simple explanation. Sad.
Re: Thinking about God increases acceptance of AI in decision-making
#48In the game Deus Ex (2000) you can find a secret room that contains an artificial intelligence you can talk to. The dialogue tries to make connections between religious deities and artificial intelligences. https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1glq98/deus_ex2000_a... Morpheus: "The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.…
We place faith in algorithms and data, much like faith in a higher power, but rarely stop to consider who writes these digital 'scriptures' and what their intentions might be. Are we blindly trusting new 'gods' crafted in server rooms, not realizing that they might be as fallible—or as manipulative—as the human hands that created them?
I have to politely contest the conflation of faith and trust. While I understand that they're used synonymously in a colloquial context, you don't place faith in algorithms, you place trust in them. You KNOW that the algorithm exists, you just don't necessarily know what decisions it'll make or how. Whereas, when you place faith in something, you aren't certain that it even exists or that it'll do anything. And so it makes sense to me that someone's who able to make that leap of faith, a rather apt turn of phrase in this context, is also more able to place trust in something.
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#50... and people downmod me when I say i see no difference between LLM enthusiasm and a religion ...
Edit: interesting that the article doesn't seem to be visible on the first 4 pages of the front page to me any more. This is why it's bad to have most social networking based in the US and censored according to their morals...