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The Summer AI edition: AI preachers, AI therapists, AI psychics, AI murderers...
Hundreds attend AI church service in Germany
HUNDREDS OF GERMAN Protestants attended a church service in Bavaria that was generated almost entirely by artificial intelligence.
The ChatGPT chatbot led more than 300 people through 40 minutes of prayer, music, sermons and blessings.
“Dear friends, it is an honour for me to stand here and preach to you as the first artificial intelligence at this year’s convention of Protestants in Germany,” the avatar said with an expressionless face and monotonous voice.
The service — including the sermon, prayers and music — was created by ChatGPT and Jonas Simmerlein, a theologian and philosopher from the University of Vienna.
“I conceived this service — but actually I rather accompanied it, because I would say about 98% comes from the machine,” the 29-year-old scholar told The Associated Press.
Source: The Journal
An AI Chatbot May Be Your Next Therapist.
At the South by Southwest conference in March, where health startups displayed their products, there was a near-religious conviction that AI could rebuild health care, offering apps and machines that could diagnose and treat all kinds of illnesses, replacing doctors and nurses.
Unfortunately, in the mental health space, evidence of effectiveness is lacking.
Source: KFF Health News
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US air force denies running simulation in which AI drone ‘killed’ operator
Col Tucker “Cinco” Hamilton described a simulated test in which a drone powered by artificial intelligence was advised to destroy an enemy’s air defence systems, and ultimately attacked anyone who interfered with that order.
“The system started realising that while they did identify the threat, at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat,” said Hamilton, the chief of AI test and operations with the US air force, during the Future Combat Air and Space Capabilities Summit in London in May.
“So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective,” he said, according to a blogpost.
Source: The Guardian
Exclusive: 42% of CEOs say AI could destroy humanity in five to ten years
Many top business leaders are seriously worried that artificial intelligence could pose an existential threat to humanity in the not-too-distant future.
Forty-two percent of CEOs surveyed at the Yale CEO Summit this week say AI has the potential to destroy humanity five to ten years from now, according to survey results shared exclusively with CNN.
“It’s pretty dark and alarming,” Yale professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld said in a phone interview, referring to the findings.
Source: CNN Business
And, now, for something only a human could create…
The great Lonnie Holley, originally from Birmingham, performing “Hey Siri”…
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That Siri jam is the funnest thing I've heard. Almost trance-inducing ... which is probably the main purpose of AI, so we can all be zoned out until we just fade away. Ever see the film, Serenity, directed by Josh Whedon. It puts the cap on the much-loved cult series, Firefly. Malcolm Reynolds and crew discover the planet, Miranda, and its people who just simply died of total ennui. A morality tale? Vision of our future?
Neat topic and serious Siri jam. Definitely trance inducing, as Sue Cauhape says. Reminds me of living in Oshogbo, Nigeria in the house of the Priestess where spiritual drummers would congregate on the street level from 4am-noon every 4th day to celebrate the Yoruba creation myth. The drummers were priests who communicated across villages using the language of the drum. 1971. The Osun Groves were being built. The main buildings were designed by the priestess with whom I lived, and she was a catalyst for other artists to work there, and the ceremonies that still take place. The intense drumming was mind altering, but also dancing helped release the spirits. The Groves became a Unesco World Heritage Site. https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1118/