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Abstract digital human face. Artificial intelligence concept of big data or cyber security. 3D illustration

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
July 10, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Religion

Tagged
AI church theology, Anthony Levandowski, Anthony Levandowski and Waymo, Artificial intelligence as religion, Donald Trump (pardons Levandowski), Dualism and AI, Featured, Non-Computable You (book), Ray Kurzweil, Robert J. Marks, Singularity Is Near (book), Way of the Future AI church, Waymo, William Alsupp}

Artificial Intelligence, Worshipped as God, Is No Ordinary Deity!

_{Not only will we be reborn into new, immortal silicon bodies but rules regarding theft don’t seem to apply anymore…} _{Robert J. Marks

July 10, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Religion}

This article was published in The Stream (July 6, 2022) under the title “The Church of Artificial Intelligence of the Future” and is republished with permission. There is a church that worships artificial intelligence (AI). Zealots believe that an extraordinary AI future is inevitable. The technology is not here yet, but we are assured that it’s coming. We will have the ability to be uploaded onto a computer and thereby achieve immortality. You will be reborn into a new, immortal silicon body. Of course, through salvation in Jesus Christ, Christianity has offered a path to immortality for over two thousand years. Someday, we are told, software will write better and better AI software to ultimately achieve a superintelligence. The superintelligence Read More ›

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post

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
January 22, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Religion

Tagged
AI Church, Anthony Levandowski, Featured, Trade secrets, Uber, Way of the Future (church), Waymo}

The President Pardons the Founder of a Church That Worships AI

_{On his last day in office, departing President Trump pardoned Anthony Levandowski} _{Robert J. Marks

January 22, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Religion}

Anthony Levandowski has an interesting history He transitioned from Silicon Valley wunderkind to inept theologian to convicted felon. Now he is free, due to a pardon given by Donald Trump in Trump’s last day in office. If you are an orthodox materialist, you believe our brains are computers made of meat. Artificial intelligence, brains made out of silicon, will therefore match and eventually exceed human capabilities and become godlike. So it might make sense to form a church that worships this future AI god. That’s what Anthony Levandowski did in 2019. His church was christened Way of the Future. Levandowski reasoned “What is going to be created [by AI] will effectively be a god … if there is something a Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
January 7, 2021

Tagged
AI vs pilot dogfight, Autonomous Vehicles, Case for Killer Robots (book), Comma.ai, Daimler, DARPA, Eric Holloway, General Motors, hacking, Jonathan Bartlett, Language, Machine Learning, military technology, Neural networks, self-driving cars, smart cars, text translation, The Case for Killer Robots, translation, Waymo}

AI Smash Hits 2020 Part I

_{Robert J. Marks

January 7, 2021

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An ultimate test of a successful technology is whether it has been reduced to practice. Has it made a financial impact on the market? Has it been adopted by the very picky US military? Has it changed lives? We’re going to count down the AI Smash Hits: the top ten AI success stories for 2020. Join Dr. Robert J. Marks as he Read More ›

Smart car, Autonomous self-driving concept.

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Author
Jonathan Bartlett
Date
November 2, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Ethics

Tagged
Autonomous cars, Autonomous trucks, Daimler, driverless cars, Featured, Levels of autonomy (self-driving cars), self-driving cars, Voyage (automaker), Waymo}

Daimler, Waymo, and GM Make Big Gains in Level 4 Self-Driving

_{GM has been given a permit to test five driverless cars on streets in San Francisco later this year} _{Jonathan Bartlett

November 2, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Ethics}

The Society for Automotive Engineering (SAE) has identified five levels of self-driving which describe how much a particular vehicle is able to handle its own driving tasks. Level 1 means that the vehicle handles either the speed or the steering, but not both, and it requires supervision. While ordinary cruise control technically falls into this level, most people associate cruise control with adaptive cruise control, which slows down or speeds up with traffic. A Level 2 car can control the speed and the steering but the driver must still maintain full vigilance. At Level 3, the driver need not maintain total vigilance but must still be able to take control upon request. Level 4 is “full self-driving” but limited to Read More ›

Autopilot self-driving car system with no human intervention. Close up cropped image of hand of African male driver browsing the internet using smartphone and touchscreen in futuristic autonomous car

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Author
Jonathan Bartlett
Date
October 26, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance

Tagged
Autonomous Vehicles, Dailmer, driverless cars, Elon Musk, Featured, Levels of autonomy (self-driving cars), Tesla, Waymo}

Self-Driving Cars: Waymo Beats Tesla By Picking the Right Target

_{Trying to get the human out of the loop, as Musk proposes, becomes increasingly costly as the complexity increases} _{Jonathan Bartlett

October 26, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance}

Full self-driving has been a contentious topic in the last few years. In 2016, Elon Musk started claiming that his cars had all the hardware needed to do full self-driving, and that the software would be there by 2019. You would be able to summon a car from across the United States and it would drive across the country, recharging as needed, to pick you up, no driver needed. He has specifically indicated that he means Level 5 autonomy, which means that no driver is needed at all. The driver can sleep, watch a movie, or just hang out in the back seat. In fact, in 2016, he indicated that drivers were merely there for regulatory purposes. Musk’s claims about Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
September 5, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence

Tagged
DeepMind, Evolution, self-driving cars, Waymo}

Can We “Evolve” Self-Driving Cars?

_{The new method may be an advance but thinking of it as "evolution" at work risks misconceptions} _{News

September 5, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence}

In evolution, “performance” just means the continued survival of a lineage. Thus it can include hybrids between what you might want for your purposes and what you don’t want.

Will Industry Pressure Loosen Self-Driving Car Tests?

_{Right now, the regulatory agency is under pressure to accept the industry’s “softball” testing suggestions} _{Brendan Dixon

September 2, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics}

The regulatory agency (NHTSA) needs to adapt. But trusting technical documentation alone or only testing already sold vehicles is grossly insufficient. Technical documentation is what engineers think should happen; it is not the future. And testing sold vehicles creates an incentive to skimp on tests. Read More ›

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Author
Brendan Dixon
Date
July 24, 2019

Categorized
Business and Finance, Machine Learning

Tagged
self-driving cars, Uber, Waymo}

Even Uber didn’t believe in Uber’s self-driving taxis

_{We found that out after Google’s Waymo sued the company} _{Brendan Dixon

July 24, 2019

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Business and Finance, Machine Learning}

Optimism is not driving the recent collaboration and corporate consolidation in the self-driving car industry. Rather, their retrenchment is protection against an uncertain future.