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Pope Leo XIV dislikes AI, won’t authorise creation of AI Pope—"If we automate the whole world and only a few people have the means with which to more than just survive"~ there’s a big problem (htxt.co.za)

submitted 3 days ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37697209

Pope Leo XIV has said he will not authorise the creation of an AI avatar of himself, as it would blur the lines between truth and fiction.

The Pope also noted that he is concerned with AI’s impact on human dignity and jobs.

If automation replaces too many people and only a few can work, that could be a “huge problem” the Pope said.

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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

This pope is American, can we get him for president?

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If AI worked the way techbros think it does it would be an affront to god that intelligence was so easy to artificially make. If you believe in god you likely believe humans are special creations of god but then why would god build our brains in such an inefficient, wildly overcomplicated manner if sentience and intelligence were so trivially easy to do it would only take a bunch of computer bros less than 100 years to build a far simpler machine that can achieve a similar and surpassing intelligence?

If you do not believe in god you are an idiot if you think techbros can outsmart hundreds and hundreds of millions and millions of years of evolution in a couple of decades of hamfistedly hacking away at concepts while ignoring the necessary integrative knowledge from other fields like the humanities that is a prerequisite to even setting the proper goals in the first place in the process of creating artificial intelligence.

These are simply pattern matching tools with a limited degree of context memory that you can interact with in plain english language. Further, these machines are even worse logic machines than humans are and as much as logic isn't popular these days, it is a VERY necessary underpinning element to functional intelligence in any real context.

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