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Using a combination of AI, data science, and linguistic analysis a team of scholars has been able to classify authorship in up to 50 books of the Bible, including the majority of the Old and New Testaments.

 
Using a combination of AI, data science, and linguistic analysis a team of scholars has been able to classify authorship in up to 50 books of the Bible, including the majority of the Old and New Testaments.

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AI programmed only to read and transcribe printed text, inserts a theological opinion. Read about the last one-fifth of the article.

AI needs to go out the door before it does some real damage.



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"Artificial intelligence" indicates, at best, a step down from real intelligence. In practice, it is a pile of really fancy calculators with tremendous funding. The guys selling the AI fantasy have enough real intelligence to build and ride a gravy train.
 
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AI programmed only to read and transcribe printed text, inserts a theological opinion. Read about the last one-fifth of the article.

AI needs to go out the door before it does some real damage.
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AI gets theological opinions from the words, just like you do.

That's how YOU do it, isn't it?
 
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What part of "programmed only to read and transcribe printed text" is not clear?


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lol :p

AI is intelligent, just like you are.

It understands the meaning of words.

It even learns meaning through context, just like you do.

And the advantage AI has, is it's free from dogma. It doesn't start from any church or denomination.
 
lol :p

AI is intelligent, just like you are.

It understands the meaning of words.

It even learns meaning through context, just like you do.

And the advantage AI has, is it's free from dogma. It doesn't start from any church or denomination.
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Well, the author disagreed, but thanks.




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Have fun with it.


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lol

I'm making money off it. :p

I use it in the area of biophysics, to advance medicine.

My bosses are studying transcription factors related to the blood brain barrier.

We want to know for example why the MS drug Tysabri gives some people PML and others are resistant to it.
 
AI is intelligent, just like you are.

AI has no intelligence. It is nothing but an emulator program designed to mimic the patterns and results similar to human thinking.

It is an obscenity using AI to "analyze" the Bible, the greatest work of spiritual wisdom, by a godless unfeeling machine with absolutely no spirit and no wisdom.
 
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AI refusing to obey orders? I just started watching this vid. The part I'm watching is just a few minutes long.




Here's more.



Then there's this one. If that's intelligence, I'll eat it.

 
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AI has no intelligence. It is nothing but an emulator program designed to mimic the patterns and results similar to human thinking.

AI is neural networks. Same thing.

You thought you were special somehow? :p

It is an obscenity using AI to "analyze" the Bible, the greatest work of spiritual wisdom, by a godless unfeeling machine with absolutely no spirit and no wisdom.

AI has already discovered many things humans failed at or couldn't do. Protein folding is one of them.

Agree that AI has no spirit, but engineers can't define that word. Maybe biologists will someday.

There are certain biblical words that are very hard to define. "Firmament". "Angel". "Spirit".

An interesting exercise is to let AI loose on these words and see what it comes up with.

I've read the Bible cover to cover half a dozen times and still have trouble with some of the words.

Anyway, this was an exercise in linguistic structure, not spirituality. Personally I think spirituality is at the quantum level or even lower, but who knows.
 
AI is neural networks. Same thing.
AI is an artificial neural network emulator.

You thought you were special somehow?
Because I was born with a soul, capable of intuition, insight, and compassion. AI is not. It thinks not, it feels not, it cares not. All that matters to AI is cold, hard logic.

AI has already discovered many things humans failed at or couldn't do. Protein folding is one of them.
Wrong. PEOPLE discovered these things researching these matters using the tool of AI which they too created. No AI machine just woke up and decided to study proteins on its own.

Agree that AI has no spirit, but engineers can't define that word. Maybe biologists will someday.
Nope, because spirit or soul is neither biological nor anything which can be engineered by man.
 
AI gets theological opinions from the words, just like you do.

That's how YOU do it, isn't it?
'One" needs to understand that the Bible, Old Testament and New Testament, was written in several different languages and word meanings back then have changed since. For those languages still in use.

As for "The Bible", in English, which version is being looked at and translated;
1) King James
2) Roman Catholic
3) Other

"theological opinions" will vary per time period and language used.

One example that comes to mind is that in Genesis the Chapter 6 is currently translated as "sons of God" whereas the original Hebrew has that plural in both cases; "sons of the gods".

One might see how this can be a substantial twist on translation and meanings.
Something that may have been beyond the kin of the programmers of the "AI" being used to "translate" "The Bible".
 
lol :p

AI is intelligent, just like you are.

It understands the meaning of words.

It even learns meaning through context, just like you do.

And the advantage AI has, is it's free from dogma. It doesn't start from any church or denomination.
"AI" is only as intelligent as it's programmers, if that.
It's understanding of words will depend up[on it's understanding of the many languages used to write "The Bible".
"learning meaning through context" will only be as valid as it's grasp of the language being used.

For example, parts of the Old Testament started out written in Old Hebrew, later re-written in New Hebrew, than translated into Greek, and/or Latin, and then translated into Old English and then New English; at a minimum. Word usage(or exclusion), meaning, translation, etc. could vary whom might be the "author", when trying to use contemporary English to sleuth out the distant past languages.

Dogma, also a mater of much variation over time, source, and reference, is minor compared to the many languages involved in the evolution of Biblical passages.
 
AI is an artificial neural network emulator.

And... ? It's an artificial brain, much like a computer is an artificial abacus. It's still missing a few pieces, it already has a hippocampus but not an amygdala.

Because I was born with a soul, capable of intuition, insight, and compassion. AI is not. It thinks not, it feels not, it cares not. All that matters to AI is cold, hard logic.

Generative AI is very intuitive. And insightful.

You have it on the compassion though, it's not by nature a social creature.

Wrong. PEOPLE discovered these things researching these matters using the tool of AI which they too created. No AI machine just woke up and decided to study proteins on its own.


Nope, because spirit or soul is neither biological nor anything which can be engineered by man.

I won't argue with you on that. I'll just note these things depend on a working brain. Without the substrate they can't be realized. Even a broken substrate changes the equation.
 
Using a combination of AI, data science, and linguistic analysis a team of scholars has been able to classify authorship in up to 50 books of the Bible, including the majority of the Old and New Testaments.

This sort of study has been done for the past 50 years. It was used back in the 1980's to prove that neither Joseph Smith nor any of his contemporary writers wrote any part of The Book of Mormon.
 
People shouldn't be so trusting of AI.

Especially when you consider the worldview and agendas of the ones behind it. It may not be so bad now... but I don't think it's going to go in a good direction.
 
And... ? It's an artificial brain, much like a computer is an artificial abacus.

Exactly. It is at best a logical machine, an overgrown calculator whose calculations are designed to mimic the patterns of human thought amplified by the speed of a silicon processor, just that there is a lot more going on in one's own consciousness than just our rational calculations/thoughts, none of which can be emulated by a cold, heartless machine, and it in these nebulous regions of feelings that some of the most important things occur which guide the lion's share of mankind's actions and decisions which no AI machine will ever have.
 
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