Marginalium

Get Ready for AI Religions:

The drive to build a machine greater than we are is, at its heart, a yearning for the divine. In a world suffering from a meaning crisis, AI is poised to fill the God-shaped hole. A digital messiah created not by a deity, but by human ingenuity. For all its technological marvel, it is wreathed in religious mystery. AI models are now so advanced that their designers don’t know exactly how they work. Instead, we are asked to have faith that they do. Using large language models like ChatGPT already has a magical and otherworldly quality, not just because we are encountering an intelligence beyond our understanding, but because it appears to be speaking back to us.

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