The End From the Beginning—Part 5—Other Modern Inventions
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| The Old Testament, on the contrary, is dominated by an essentially different form of typological thinking, namely, that of the eschatological correspondence between beginning and end. — Urzeit and Endzeit |
Introduction and Review
Control the Uncontrollable With AI
"AI tames the free-flowing movement of water particles to be more structured and formulaic. Out of the organic, we create structure and organization ... we can't pretend to know everything that AI will do for us ... all this machine-based learning and pattern processes ... allows for endless possibilities. Now we can control the uncontrollable. This is not a wave. It's the chaos of creativity. Now you can harness that chaos with AI and the computing power of Z to explore endless possibilities and create in infinite ways."
The advertisement for their products reads much like the creation narrative of Genesis chapter one, where chaos and uncontrollability find expression in the form of waters.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void (chaotic and uncontrollable); and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
— Genesis 1:1-2
In Genesis, God controls the chaos and brings order, organization, and function to the scene. Today's world is banking on brushing God aside in favor of AI. It is another revisit of the "Tower of Babel" regarding humanity's self-serving "endless possibilities" within this system.
Then the Lord came down to look over the city and the tower that the men were building. The Lord said, “If they have begun to do this as one people all having the same language, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
— Genesis 11:5-6
In an Oprah Winfrey documentary, "AI and the Future of Us," one of her guest speakers touched on the topic of AI developing its own universal language and noted that once AI can do anything, the question will be whether it will be good or bad. The language used in the discussion is eerily similar to that of the knowledge of good and evil (bad) in Genesis 3 and the universal language and unhindered possibilities of Genesis chapter eleven.
More On Z—This is Not a Tree
"This is not a tree. It's every milestone and misstep that's led you here/ Your time to branch out beyond two dimensions and leap into 3d with the computing power of z ... this is not a tree. This is the next era of your creativity. "
One can almost see Eve standing at that tree.
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| Atlas, an intelligent bipedal humanoid robot made by Boston Dynamics, and Sophia, a social humanoid robot developed by the Hong Kong-based company Hanson Robotics |
Robots, Humanoids, and the Like
In those days there was no king in Israel, and each one did what was right in his own eyes.— Judges 17:6
The Bible's opening narratives once again speak to our modern idolatrous inventions.
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image.
— Leviticus 26:1
Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female ...
— Deuteronomy 4:16-17
At the heart of all this corruption is a rebellious desire to be a god.
... “You shall not surely die. For God knows that on the day you both eat from it, then your eyes will be opened and you both shall be like gods, knowing good and evil. (Lexham English Bible)
— Genesis 3:4-5
A recent BBC article reports that we may soon be wearing the "Iron Man" body armor, also known as an exoskeleton. The article describes its purpose in the following quote.
... an exoskeleton is an external device that supports, covers, and protects its user, giving greater levels of strength ... sometimes also referred to as "wearable robots ... "Integrating humans and machines into one system opens up a realm of opportunity," says Adrian Spragg an expert on the technology at management consultancy Accenture ... the world is only just beginning to understand the potential for exoskeleton technology"
Can we really expect such devices to honor and serve us, or is it inevitable we will awaken to the terrifying reality that we have traitors in our midst of our own making?
A Flashing Neon "Sign"
“Artificial Intelligence that will make you wonder which one of you is real.”
Rise of the Robots
... this is only the beginning of what they will do. So now nothing that they intend to do will be impossible for them. (LEB)— Genesis 11:5-6
The template for these future humanoids is formed and fashioned from composite data of actual humans, emulating the perceived "good." "Good" is subjective, in human terms, to the former and the fashioner.
A London-based robotics company called "Geomiq" offers to pay $127,00 for the rights to someone's face for a mystery client's robot.
... although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools and changed the glory of the incorruptible into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.
— Romans 1:21-23
"The AI Race"
First, you will want the robot in your home because it's helpful; the next minute, you will need it because you start to rely on it. And then you can't live without it ... will be like a member of the family ... and at the end of the day the robot doesn't genuinely care about you ... software systems and robots, of course, can empathize, and they can empathize so much better than people because they are able to extract so much more data and not just about you but a lot of people like you around the world. Already, judges use algorithms to help make decisions... algorithms are much more reliable than people. People are flawed... people are not transparent the same way an AI algorithm is ... ultimately, what is going to end up happening is we are going to become the second intelligent species on this planet, and to take it to that degree, do we actually merge with it? So we have to merge our brain with AI, its the only way forward, it's inevitable ... but we won't be human then we will be something else. Superhuman! We are on the precipice of a technological transformation... a transition that is shocking and violent... technologies are morally neutral.
According to Wikipedia, I.J. Good, a 1965 cryptologist, believed that this dependence would become a welcome feature of society.
Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as one that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man, however clever. Since designing machines is one of these activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and human intelligence would be left far behind. Thus, the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man ever needs to make.
Our love of convenience is the lure. God confronts Sodom and Gomorrah with this very same downfall.
Look! This was the iniquity of Sodom, your sister: Pride, an abundance of food, and prosperous ease was to her and to her daughters, and she did not sustain the needy and the poor ...
— Ezekiel 16:49
In the book of Revelation, God warns His people about the danger of dependence on any of these fronts.
Because you say, I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’ (Eve partaking of forbidden fruit)—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked (end result)— I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eyesalve, that you may see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.
— Revelation 3:17-19
The beginning of this portion of Scripture is reminiscent of what Eve hoped to obtain by partaking of the forbidden fruit—and it immediately mirrors the results of that partaking.
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| Modern and ancient Valkyries |
Valkyrie
... And they did not repent ...— Revelation 9:20-21,16:9,11
"Tech Times" sheds light on the fascinating background behind the name Valkyrie. It could reveal the eventual plot of the godless attempt to create an organized system that functions without God.
"Dubbed Valkyrie, the battery-powered robot got its name from Norse mythology, which refers to Odin's group of ethereal maidens sent to the battlefield to choose who among the slain were worthy of a place in Valhalla.
The name's etymology goes even deeper, with Biblical overtones.
... the same Indo-European root produced Old Norse hel, a proper noun employed for both the name of another afterlife location and a supernatural female entity who oversees it, as well as the modern English noun hell. In Swedish folklore, some mountains that were traditionally regarded as abodes of the dead were also called Valhall; it is therefore possible that the höll element derives from hallr, "rock", and originally referred to an underworld.
The Rephaim, sometimes translated as "giants," bear a striking resemblance to these descriptions in Biblical literature. In some narratives, they were considered dead underworld residents who roamed the earth. One narrative, in particular, discusses the peculiarity of these beings.
For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants (rephaim); behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits (13.5 feet) was the length thereof, and four cubits (6 feet) the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
— Deuteronomy 3:11
The modern interpretation could be robots that appear human but are actually dead. They will have no real life in them.
Everyone is dull-hearted, without knowledge;
Every metalsmith is put to shame by the carved image;
For his molded image is falsehood,
And there is no breath in them.
— Jeremiah 51:17
ElliQ—An Electronic Sympathetic Companion
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"First"
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate.— Genesis 3:6
The logos representing this organization are unmistakably reminiscent of an ancient tower that once served as a gathering place for rebels, for the express purpose of "building" a name for themselves. The image even emphasizes the sky, or perhaps we could say the heavens.
And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.
— Genesis 11:4
The last sentence of the verse above reveals that the underlying purpose of using knowledge, science, and technology will be to escape accountability and to avoid the God who made everything and who deserves to be worshiped and obeyed. The Psalmist presents a more detailed prophetic illustration.
Why do the nations rage,And the people plot a vain thing?The kings of the earth set themselves,And the rulers take counsel together,Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,“Let us break Their bonds in piecesAnd cast away Their cords from us.”— Psalm 2:1-3
Terasem—Living Technologically Forever
- Life is purposeful.
- Death is optional.
- God is technological. And
- Love is essential.
"Nobody dies so long as enough information about them is preserved. They are simply in a state of 'cybernetic biostasis.' Future mindware technology will enable them to be revived, if desired, to healthy and independent living."
The movement makes God a technological being of its own making.
"We are making God as we are implementing technology that is ever more all-knowing, ever-present, all-powerful, and beneficent. Geoethical nanotechnology will ultimately connect all consciousness and control the cosmos."
Meanwhile, futurist Ray Kurzweil, who works on Google's machine learning project, has said in recent months that by 2029 what is known as "singularity"—the total merging of human and computer intelligence—will be achieved.
Jotter explained that an essential aspect of transhumanism is "that the body is totally irrelevant to our identity as a human being" and that "the body becomes something you can manipulate at will and doesn't have any normative stand in defining who we are as human beings."
In other words, from the transhumanist perspective, what defines a human person is what is inside the brain, and if the contents can be uploaded onto a hard drive, then that would still be you.
"The movement focuses on preserving, evoking, reviving, and downloading human consciousness.
Lifenaut is one of Terasem's projects.
A long-term research study that offers a free online repository of individual digital reflections/biographical information (Mindfiles) and a place to cryonically store DNA samples (BioFiles) for long-term preservation and eventual re-animation as technology evolves.
Its mission is to build a collective consciousness consisting of joyful immortal extensions of each of its joiners"
The book of Revelation prophetically describes something that looks very similar to an attempt to hijack God's plan to create a creature in His image and give it breath.
He (the beast) was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.
— Revelation 13:15
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being.
— Genesis 2:7
Much of this movement's philosophy and language is highly religious and spiritual, with pastors leading followers in fellowship with these ideals. Mark Zuckerberg does the same when discussing Facebook's online AI-based community-building project. He calls it "the new church," according to the "New York Post." Zuckerberg's description, once again, follows the biblical pattern: "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves..." (Genesis 11:4).
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| Argonne National Laboratory eerily resembles Rujm el-Hiri, an ancient megalith in Israel known for its giants |
Aurora: Mind Mapping
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory (in Argonne, Illinois, USA) is a national synchrotron-radiation light source research facility funded by the United States Department of Energy Office of Science. The facility "saw first light" on March 26, 1995. Argonne National Laboratory is managed by UChicago Argonne LLC, which is composed of the University of Chicago and Jacobs Engineering Group. Using high-brilliance X-ray beams from the APS, members of the international synchrotron-radiation research community conduct cutting-edge basic and applied research in materials science and biological science; physics and chemistry; environmental, geophysical, and planetary science; and innovative X-ray instrumentation.
God's first creative force is calling forth light. Here, we see the human attempt to be God in this modern interpretation of Stonehenge, or the Wheel of the Giants, as the photo heading in this section illustrates the similarities between their constructions.
Jacob's Engineering Group, which partially manages Argonne, as mentioned in the above quote, discusses the "necessities" of data gathering and processing for the global commune's health, wealth, and protection.
"These issues inspire us to dig deeper and apply big data analytics to fully understand the interplay of multifaceted variables shaping the future, ensuring that we conceive and deliver solutions that connect people and places with the means to work smarter and live better and make an enduring, positive difference in the world ... we collect and process a daunting amount of information and consider a complex interplay of factors and events ... What if we showed you how we’re using drones and geo-data to detect and defend against real-time threats ... As tools for gathering data become more powerful, so too will the demand for evidence-driven decisions. We fully integrate data with the empathy and judgment of designers and engineers into higher-performing, objectively measurable projects ... We think differently about the future, to deliver bold solutions for changing times, and a more connected, sustainable world ... Smart options for affordable, livable structures, both on land and in space, are critical for society and for future exploration.
*All sources for this series are available in the final part.
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