{"id":73907,"date":"2017-11-21T17:42:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T01:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/whats-wrong-with-godless-ai-technological-salvation-the-singularity"},"modified":"2017-11-21T17:42:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T01:42:37","slug":"whats-wrong-with-godless-ai-technological-salvation-the-singularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/whats-wrong-with-godless-ai-technological-salvation-the-singularity","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Wrong with Godless AI Technological Salvation, the Singularity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/whats-wrong-with-godless-ai-technological-salvation-the-singularity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/commentary\/michael-keas\/ray-kurzweil-right-about-singularity-ai-technological-salvation\">recent article<\/a>, I began to unpack Rodney Brooks\u2019 October 2017 essay \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/609048\/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-ai-predictions\/\">The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions<\/a>.\u201d Now I continue my analysis by looking into the faulty atheistic thinking that motivates the AI salvation preached by futurists such as Google\u2019s Ray Kurzweil. Although Brooks does not address this worldview dimension, his critique of AI predictive sins provides a great opportunity for just that.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks is a pioneer of robotic artificial intelligence (AI) and is MIT Panasonic Professor of Robotics Emeritus. He is also the founder and chief technology officer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rethinkrobotics.com\">Rethink Robotics<\/a>, which makes cobots\u2014robots designed to collaborate with humans in a shared industrial workspace.<\/p>\n<p>Previously I discussed Brooks\u2019 remark that \u201call the evidence that I see says we have no real idea yet how to build\u201d the superintelligent devices that Kurzweil and like-minded singularity advocates imagine.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/commentary\/michael-keas\/whats-wrong-godless-ai-technological-salvation-singularity\">https:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/commentary\/michael-keas\/whats-wrong-...ingularity<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent article, I began to unpack Rodney Brooks\u2019 October 2017 essay \u201cThe Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions.\u201d Now I continue my analysis by looking into the faulty atheistic thinking that motivates the AI salvation preached by futurists such as Google\u2019s Ray Kurzweil. Although Brooks does not address this worldview dimension, his critique [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2018,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ray-kurzweil","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}