Genesis says that God created man in his own image.
God gave man his image, but he did not give him his wisdom and omnipotence. Therefore, people who are the spirit of all things are always pursuing God-like wisdom and omnipotence. Artificial Intelligence (Artificial Intelligence) is such a project.
The sci-fi film "Transcendence" tells about the breakthrough of AI technology in the future world and the creation of the supercomputer Transcendence. How Will (the father of Transcendence) described it - all mathematicians, engineers, hackers , the human intelligence combined is no match for the most basic artificial intelligence computer. This machine has all human emotions, even self-awareness. Once activated, this cognitive machine will rapidly transcend the confines of biology, and in a very short time, its analytical capabilities will surpass all the intelligence of all human beings who have ever lived on earth.
I think this is not the imagination of scientists. In today's data-based and networked world, such a machine with super computing power (quantum computer) can read the real-time information of the world, and it is omniscient; through programs and networks Connectivity acts on all entities, and it is omnipotent; such a cognitive and self-aware machine, on the basis of omniscience and omnipotence, can integrate all human knowledge and resources, and then achieve evolution, making its wisdom and The ability to increase geometrically, to evolve rapidly, to be omniscient and omnipotent - isn't this God?
That's exactly what happened in the movie. Perhaps this was unimaginable and unrealizable before the 1960s, but after the birth of the Internet and in today's era, as long as an intelligent program with cognitive ability, learning ability, and self-awareness is connected to the network, the above Everything is not impossible.
So, man is creating God.
If man made such a god, what would it be like? what will be done? What will happen to the world?
"Transcendental Hackers" gave us a vision. This God is merciful to transform the world, to remove pollution, to eradicate disease, poverty and disaster. At the same time, it also extends its tentacles to every corner of the world, penetrates into every person's body and will, down to every cell and every atom.
People are terrified of this, which is undoubtedly depriving human beings of their freedom and dominating them. A point repeated throughout the film is that humans are afraid of things they don't understand. Opposition and even violence accompany the Transcendence project, even killing scientists, until this intelligent machine begins to spread out into the world, and more people, including Will's best friends, mentors, and lovers, stop and destroy it. Of course eventually it was contained.
A very bloody ending, but it does not affect our thinking.
When God comes, people fear God. Remember Noah's Ark? That is the myth that God intervenes in the human world to cleanse the human world. The omniscient and almighty God is completely different from the narrow vision of human beings, and the way of thinking of the omniscient and almighty God is completely different from that of human beings. The omniscient and almighty God will naturally do things that are difficult for human beings to understand!
When God did not come, people prayed and begged to God in joy and sorrow. If God was really created to govern the world in his own way, there would be fear in man.
So, either believe that there is no God in the world, and that man lives by his complex humanity; or believe that there is a God in the world, but it rules the world of this man in a human way.
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