Google released an Artificial Intelligence chatbot called Bard last March. When asked to summarize the New Testament it took Bard five seconds and only 17 words to do so: “The New Testament is the story of God’s love for humanity which was revealed through Jesus Christ.” The following is a short short story, usually attributed…
I must confess, there is much that I enjoy about Synod. It provides a space for the exchange of ideas and the deepening of theological understanding. It allows for the unity and fellowship of the Church to be expressed. It is a place where different voices and perspectives can come together, seeking to discern God’s…
Nearly 20 years ago, when I was completing a PhD in computer vision, I was drawn to an AI technique called “machine learning” for recognizing different images. I recall being astounded at the profound elegance of “training” a computer with example images and then observing how well it could identify new images. My early experiences…
Allen Plug is a Calvin University-trained Ontologist working for Cycorp, a company that has developed an artificially intelligent hospital advisor. Plug knows how to talk to robots, or – to be more precise – he is an expert in semantic knowledge representation. He’s also Canadian and has lived in Saskatchewan, B.C. and Ontario. Do you…
“Computers: Are they conquering our world?” That was the title of an article published in Christian Courier (CC) more than 40 years ago. “The possibilities for manipulation of people,” columnist and labour expert Harry Antonides wrote in 1982, “by controlling and slanting information and news via the new systems of communication are staggering.” He was…
Could you tell if this editorial was written by a robot? I started asking this question in mid-December right around the time my husband, Jakob was spending his evenings talking to something (someone?) who wasn’t human at all. He had discovered ChatGPT, a large language model developed by OpenAI, a company co-founded by Elon Musk….
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