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Beyond the Written Word: AI’s Role in Reaching Oral Cultures

AI is having impact everywhere. But what about global outreach initiatives? And specifically Christian missions? How are those in the mission field using artificial intelligence? On this episode of Mind Matters News, host Robert J. Marks and co-host Jonathan Swindell welcome Dr. Don Barger to the show. Barger is the Director of Innovation and Artificial Intelligence at the International Mission Board. Don works with new technology, especially AI, and helps people use it in smart and responsible ways. He thinks a lot about how AI can help in real-life situations, especially in global missions. He also understands the limits of AI and what it cannot do. In this conversation, we’ll discuss how AI is changing the world, how AI should be used responsibly in global outreach initiatives to other cultures and peoples, and what it all means for the future. 

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How to Think Clearly in the Age of AI

AI isn’t really artificial intelligence, but simulated intelligence

Human beings possess a unique and powerful innovative energy that can bring forth new things that did not exist before.

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Skynet Goes Live

The most amazing computer in the universe is still your own brain

After spending three days conversing with Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude about a range of topics, noted atheist Richard Dawkins acknowledged that he was now open to the possibility that artificial intelligence may possess consciousness.

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New Study Finds Many Pastors Use AI in Various Ways

It's not just schools. AI is in the churches, too

The way AI is creeping into our cultural and religious institutions is worth keeping an eye on, especially since so many of us look to these places to understand what it means to be human in the first place.

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YouTubers V The Mandalorian

I can’t remember the last time there have only been two or three seats remaining in a theater

YouTubers are quickly replacing the A-list celebrities, and while I’m surprised to see the studios going along with this trend, I’m not at all disappointed, and, for the first time in a long time, I’m hopeful for the future of entertainment.

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AI: Artificial Intelligence Review Part 13: What is Value?

Ducks do not debate the existence of God, nor do they build skyscrapers

Let’s say robots were to become sentient, humans would still be the cause of that consciousness, even when they began to self-replicate, their understanding of the world would still come from humanity.

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Donald Wunsch on the Limits of AI and Why It Matters

The hype around AI is reaching fever pitch these days. But never mind predictions of future AI potential. What can it actually do and not do today? On this episode of the Mind Matters News podcast, host Robert J. Marks welcomes Dr. Donald C. Wunsch II to the show for a long-form, wide-ranging conversation about what AI can actually do today—and the very real risks and responsibilities that come with it.

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AI and the extraordinary claims made without extraordinary evidence

Nobody should be using AI tools just for the sake of using them

Will the bubble pop or is the pullback another false alarm? In any case, the extraordinary claims will likely continue and perhaps even accelerate as AI startups push their IPOs and companies become fearful of the bubble popping.

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AI: Artificial Intelligence Review Part 12

The story is not talking about how to determine reality as a whole, it’s really attacking human exceptionalism

Ideas like love, beauty, and so on are part of the human experience because humans sense them; they don’t always agree on the particulars, but they intuitively know that these ideas exist.

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AI: Artificial Intelligence Review Part 11: Along Came the Glitter Bots

It’s boring and pretentious to the point of being obnoxious

Spielberg fails to understand that obsession is not love, and if David were really human, he would know that.

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AI Got Booed Off the Stage 

Graduating seniors don't all approve of the technology's growing presence in society 

Many graduating students may just want a simpler life where they can work, afford to live, and enter life-giving relationships.

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A Long Night’s Journey into the Dark Side of AI

Like AI, the subconscious mind can process a vast amount of information.

Science Fiction writers have over the past 100-plus years been warning us about the horrors of a dystopian future, but now we are reaching the point where such Sci-Fi stories are now becoming ‘Faction’.

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AI Artificial Intelligence Part 10: Mocking Descartes

The philosopher was trying to establish how a man can know whether or not he exists

Whenever David talks about Monica loving him, he’s always bringing up the things she’ll do for him, not what he can do for her.

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“Please Say Your Phone License Number and Look Into the Camera”

Serious FCC proposal would require licenses to buy phones; AI talk-control is next.

The new law would require telephone service providers to “at a minimum, obtain and retain the name, physical address, government issued identification number, and an alternate telephone number of any new and renewing customer before granting access to its services.” 

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AI: Artificial intelligence Review Part 9

David’s hijacking of the aircraft provides him with a distraction, and he escapes.

David mentions that the first thing he remembered seeing was a bird with outstretched feathers, but it turns out that this initial visual was not a bird at all but a man with feather-like symbols beneath his feet.

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AI Startups are Measuring their Revenues in Likely Fraudulent Ways

These companies are creating higher valuations out of thin air!

Companies charge their customers enough money for them to pay their suppliers, and for those suppliers to pay their suppliers but this isn’t happening in AI.

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Why I Will Not Use Gen AI For Software Development

It’s too risky, and today’s apparent short-term boost may lead to long-term regret.

Our brain’s dopamine system is exploited by the non-deterministic output of GenAI, just as with social media and slot machines.

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AI: Artificial Intelligence Review Part 8

There is no definition for real here because there is no God to define what is “real”.

Spielberg, and presumably Kubrick, are going to use this botched retelling of a fairy tale to give you an ironclad case for atheism.

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AI: Artificial Intelligence Review Part 7

The powers that be have created a robot that can trick people.

These writers sometimes present the opposing points of view through unlikable avatars in an attempt to peer pressure their audience.

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AI Artificial intelligence Review Part 6: Kubrick Doesn’t Know Pinocchio?

Classic fairy tales, in general, are supposed to be at the forefront of the audience’s mind.

The robot shouldn’t have the ability to lie unless programmed to do so under certain circumstances, but even if the robot were capable of lying in the event of a murder, the robot keeps records of its whereabouts.

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