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Former Google engineer is developing an AI god - C C - Oct 1, 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/28/artificial-intelligence-god-anthony-levandowski
EXCERPT: [...] Anthony Levandowski, who is at the center of a legal battle between Uber and Google’s Waymo, has established a nonprofit religious corporation called Way of the Future [...] Way of the Future’s startling mission: “To develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on artificial intelligence and through understanding and worship of the Godhead contribute to the betterment of society.”
[...] The Way of the Future team did not respond to requests for more information about their proposed benevolent AI overlord, but history tells us that new technologies and scientific discoveries have continually shaped religion, killing old gods and giving birth to new ones.
As author Yuval Noah Harari notes: “That is why agricultural deities were different from hunter-gatherer spirits, why factory hands and peasants fantasised about different paradises, and why the revolutionary technologies of the 21st century are far more likely to spawn unprecedented religious movements than to revive medieval creeds.”
[...] Silicon Valley, meanwhile, has sought solace in technology and has developed quasi-religious concepts including the “singularity”, the hypothesis that machines will eventually be so smart that they will outperform all human capabilities, leading to a superhuman intelligence that will be so sophisticated it will be incomprehensible to our tiny fleshy, rational brains...
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RE: Former Google engineer is developing an AI god - Magical Realist - Oct 3, 2017
A BOT may become our new God in the future, but I ain't worshipping shit. I find groveling and kissing ass very damaging to one's self-respect. I guess that makes me a jarred battery in the coming age of the Singularity. Oh well. At least I will do my menial job with pride. I will be the little battery that could.