Joel Kontinen
Occasionally, science portals tend to overstep their expertise and give religious pronouncements.
The latest example is provided by Live Science. The article features Anthony Levandowski, a former Google and Uber engineer, who established Way of the Future, ”a nonprofit religious corporation dedicated to worshiping AI.”
As with all false religions, its founder has the basics all wrong. He would have us worship a created object instead of the Creator. Artificial intelligence can never become a true God because contrary to some sci-fi claims it can't create anything.
That ”god” would in effect be a superfast calculator and nothing much more. Hence, all prophecies concerning an AI god will turn out to be false ones.
Source:
McDonald, Glenn. 2017. Church that Worships AI God May Be the Way of the Future. Live Science (20 October).
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