2. Which is better?
• There are many people in the world who
believe in God, and then there are many
people in the world who believe in science,
who’s to know which is better or correct.
3. The Kurzweil-Gelernter Debate
David Gelernter Ray Kurzweil
• Sometimes people describe • Mastering human emotion
spirituality—to move finally to the and human language is really
last topic—as a feeling of oneness key to the Turing test, which
with the universe or a universal has held up as our exemplary
flow through the mind, a particular assessment of whether or not
mode of thought and style of a non-biological intelligence
thought. In principle, you could get has achieved human levels
a computer to do that. But people of intelligence. And as we
who strike me as spiritual describe build machines that can
spirituality as a physical need or interact with us better and
want. My soul thirsteth for God, for really master human
the living God, as the Book of intelligence, that’s going to
Psalm says. Can we build a robot be the frontier.
with a physical need for a non-
physical thing? Maybe, but don’t
count on it.
4. Artificial Intelligence, and the
Singularity Factor, what is it anyway ?
• Artificial Intelligence is:
the capability of a machine to imitate
intelligent human behavior
• Singularity Factor:
• a moment when computers will become
intelligent, and not just intelligent but more
intelligent than humans. When that
happens, humanity — our bodies, our
minds, our civilization — will be completely
and irreversibly transformed singularly.
5. God’s Promise and Sin
• In the Bible God • We originally had
promises that one it but lost it to sin.
day we will have And because of
everlasting life, but that to God. We
we have to fulfill a have inherited sin
covenant with God. and all it’s evils.
Once we do we And until we can
can understand our get past sin, we
spiritual side again, don’t need to try to
we can remove sin. live forever in sin.
6. Body, Soul our Spirit
“The Soul” consists
of a person's mind,
will, emotions and
intelligence.
“The Spirit" is the core of
our lives -- the center of
our existence. "Spirit"
“Our Bodies” of makes us aware of God,
course consist angels, demons.
of Flesh and
Blood, bones,
and organs.
7. Why is this important?
Major Religions of the World
• Although this is not
Ranked by Number of
about Religion. I just
want to point out all the Adherents
people In the World
versus all the people
who don’t believe in 0
some form of a God. Chrisianity
• As we can see the 8%
majority 92% of the
Islam
world are spiritual, while 16% 33%
only 8% of the world
does not. Judaism
• How will this affect the
92%? 22%
• Will they have a choice? Nonreligious
21%
All other
religions
8. The fight for Control
Could we lose our Would we need to
power over our integrate in order to
Robots? keep up?
• Would we be able • And in order to
to control these control them or
Super Intelligent keep up with them
Robots, or would would be need to
they end up integrate our own
controlling us? And bodies, and would
even later killing off we stay human or
our species? Cyborg?
9. So, why would we do all of
this? Because these Super
Intelligent robots or
computers could do wonders
for our lives. They could help
saves lives, our planet, and
also help us to live longer.
10. According To Kurzweil, Robot with Super
Intelligence and to his calculations, the end of
human civilization as we know it is about 35 years
away.
The future is fast approaching when it could
become a reality. But remember that one day
you may wake up and find out that you are no
longer you, but look more like this…
11. Bibliography
Brooks, R. (2006, December 6).
Gelernter and Kurzweil debate
machine conscience. Retrieved
from Kurzweil Accelerating
Intelligence:
http://www.kurzweilai.net/gelern
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