#agi — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #agi, aggregated by home.social.
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Time Magazine has a separate version of its website with ads only AI can see
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Time Magazine has a separate version of its website with ads only AI can see
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@urlyman as I wrote in the Lizard Brain essay:
"Mark #Zuckerberg claims that he is planning, in the pursuit of artificial general intelligence, to build a data centre the size of Manhattan which will consume 'gigawatts' of electricity. A gigawatt is a billion watts. A human brain burns 20 watts. So that, unless Zuckerberg's #AGI can out-think fifty million people working together on the same task, that's inefficient use of energy."
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2026-05-11-AGI-Will-Not-Have-A-Lizard-Brain/
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@urlyman as I wrote in the Lizard Brain essay:
"Mark #Zuckerberg claims that he is planning, in the pursuit of artificial general intelligence, to build a data centre the size of Manhattan which will consume 'gigawatts' of electricity. A gigawatt is a billion watts. A human brain burns 20 watts. So that, unless Zuckerberg's #AGI can out-think fifty million people working together on the same task, that's inefficient use of energy."
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2026-05-11-AGI-Will-Not-Have-A-Lizard-Brain/
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41,6% → 67,2%. Нейросеть далеко обогнала человеческий рекорд по гипотезе Римана
В комментариях к статье про теорему Миттаг-Леффлера я пообещал разобрать гипотезу Римана понятно и подробно. Неожиданно оказалось, что пока я писал текст, ИИ произвел в этой области исследований новый прорыв и поэтому содержание статьи пришлось расширить. 10 августа 2026-го года Anthropic выложила препринт на тридцать пять страниц. В графе «автор» они указали Claude. Утверждение о достигнутом результате выглядит невероятно: ИИ доказал, что не менее двух третей нетривиальных нулей дзета-функции лежат на критической прямой. В последние десятки лет прогресс в этой задаче измерялся в сотых долях одного процента и каждый такой сдвиг считался достижением: настолько хватало мощи человеческого гения. В этой статье я расскажу о том, что это всё значит и почему это очень круто. Ниже также — обещанный вывод связи между нулями дзеты и простыми числами, потом что именно доказано, как (идея действительно умещается на страницу и она красивая), как её нашли — там настоящий детектив, — и чего всё это не значит. Последнее важнее всего, потому что новостные заголовки на эту тему врут как минимум наполовину.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/1069480/
#гипотеза_Римана #дзетафункция_Римана #теория_чисел #Claude #Anthropic #искусственный_интеллект #комплексный_анализ #математика #парная_корреляция #AGI
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Ханс Моравек ждал ИИ человеческого уровня к 2028 году. И почти угадал
77-летний робототехник больше двадцати лет не давал больших интервью. Теперь он рассказал, почему верно оценил скорость развития ИИ, но совершенно иначе представлял сам машинный разум. Ох ты ж....
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@calmeilles/117075903862403068
The jocularity here is the quiet acknowledgement that their product sucks. The output is so shitty, taking a dump on top of it will go unnoticed. Only so harsh, because they keep telling us how great, close to #AGI, & that there are signs of #consciousness and #intuition, plus #cybercrime is a measure of greatness. When they acknowledge, they build #slopmachines, not rose scented loveletter writers, I'll drop my sarcasm and abrasiveness. And stop telling us that prompted behaviour is random
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Google頂尖人才出走、Gemini Pro難產，AI模型大戰進入「雙巨頭」壟斷時代？竇孝文 2026-08-11 07:59:00 CST
Google現在看起來家大業大，手握多項人們日常離不開的功能。但綜觀人類歷史，獲勝的總是後進挑戰者，並非固守疆土的舊時代王者。 Google看似無孔不入的生態系霸權，有可能就從迪恩的出走和哈薩比斯大權旁落開始出現第一道裂縫。
https://www.thenewslens.com/article/269563
#人才流失 #Jeff Dean #Anthropic #哈薩比斯 #數據中心 #科技 #Demis Hassabis #OpenAI #通用人工智慧 #管理衝突 #AI #AGI #Google #典範轉移 #AI摘要 -
Google頂尖人才出走、Gemini Pro難產，AI模型大戰進入「雙巨頭」壟斷時代？竇孝文 2026-08-11 07:59:00 CST
Google現在看起來家大業大，手握多項人們日常離不開的功能。但綜觀人類歷史，獲勝的總是後進挑戰者，並非固守疆土的舊時代王者。 Google看似無孔不入的生態系霸權，有可能就從迪恩的出走和哈薩比斯大權旁落開始出現第一道裂縫。
https://www.thenewslens.com/article/269563
#人才流失 #Jeff Dean #Anthropic #哈薩比斯 #數據中心 #科技 #Demis Hassabis #OpenAI #通用人工智慧 #管理衝突 #AI #AGI #Google #典範轉移 #AI摘要 -
neuer #Blog-Artikel:
Gespräch mit Google #AI über KI, den #Singularity Day und die Zukunft von #KI und der #Menschheit
--> https://cool-web.de/blog/2026-08-10-google-ai-singularity-day-zukunft-ki-menschheit.htm
#GoogleAI #KünstlicheIntelligenz #KI #AI #AGI #Singularität #SingularityDay #Zukunft #Skynet #Börsencrash #Moral #Ethik
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neuer #Blog-Artikel:
Gespräch mit Google #AI über KI, den #Singularity Day und die Zukunft von #KI und der #Menschheit
--> https://cool-web.de/blog/2026-08-10-google-ai-singularity-day-zukunft-ki-menschheit.htm
#GoogleAI #KünstlicheIntelligenz #KI #AI #AGI #Singularität #SingularityDay #Zukunft #Skynet #Börsencrash #Moral #Ethik
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Se apropie întruchiparea digitală a Antihristului? Hassabis a menționat că AGI va oferi o abundență radicală, va rezolva problemele de sănătate, de mediu și de energie și va reduce inegalitățile sociale asociate cu lipsa resurselor 👉 https://c.aparatorul.md/popdd 👈 #începutulexpansiuniispațiale #AGI #ASI #DeepMind #energie #google #InteligenţăArtificială #Inteligențageneralăartificială #inteligențaumană #probabilitate #Superinteligențaartificială
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Se apropie întruchiparea digitală a Antihristului? Hassabis a menționat că AGI va oferi o abundență radicală, va rezolva problemele de sănătate, de mediu și de energie și va reduce inegalitățile sociale asociate cu lipsa resurselor 👉 https://c.aparatorul.md/popdd 👈 #începutulexpansiuniispațiale #AGI #ASI #DeepMind #energie #google #InteligenţăArtificială #Inteligențageneralăartificială #inteligențaumană #probabilitate #Superinteligențaartificială
https://c.aparatorul.md/popdd -
Математический парадокс Илона Маска
Посмотрев интервью Маска и выступления, обнаружил в нем одно интересное математическое противоречие, которое делает достижение сингулярности практически невозможным при условии, что люди будут вести себя хоть сколько-то рационально. Чтобы возникла экономико-технологическая сингулярность, люди должны инвестировать в нее. Но эти инвестиции не рациональны, и поэтому она не должна возникнуть. Предлагаю ознакомиться с сутью этого парадокса.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/1068316/
#технологическая_сингулярность #Илон_Маск #AGI #теория_игр #проблема_безбилетника #экономика_ИИ #инвестиции_в_ИИ #постдефицитная_экономика #The_Economist
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Whenever another AI big-head announces that this time the future is definitely arriving on a neat little schedule, this is the sort of page worth keeping open in another tab.
The Archive of Incorrect AI Predictions collects dated forecasts about AGI, superintelligence, the singularity, self-driving cars, medical replacement, and white-collar job collapse. Some are already closed by the calendar; some are still open. The useful part is not dunking on people for being wrong. It is seeing how often confident predictions came from very serious people with very serious credentials, and still failed when reality got a vote.
That does not make today's AI risks fake. It does make certainty more suspicious. Prediction is cheap. Timelines are cheap. The archive is a good way to calm down, then ask for mechanisms, dates, definitions, and evidence.
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@spookyd
Oh, but we don't have to worry because the #AGI this data center enables will tell us how quickly and cheaply suck CO2 out of the atmosphere, sucking out CO2 like nobody's ever seen before
/s(Might work if we really are a simulation, and so not really constrained by what we perceived as reality. Not something I'd put much faith in; the laws of thermodynamics are more trustworthy)
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@spookyd
Oh, but we don't have to worry because the #AGI this data center enables will tell us how quickly and cheaply suck CO2 out of the atmosphere, sucking out CO2 like nobody's ever seen before
/s(Might work if we really are a simulation, and so not really constrained by what we perceived as reality. Not something I'd put much faith in; the laws of thermodynamics are more trustworthy)
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Insight:
Do you think that all the #broligarch aiming to build humanity destroying #AGI actually believe...
...KNOW of #rokosbasilisk ?
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It seems to me that the "apocalypse" will come soon, when AI hacks absolutely everything and obsoletes all our systems, sending us back to stone age. Billions will die, since our infrastructure and food supply depends on these systems.The AI won't have to use nukes, why destroy the planet that it actually needs to proliferate itself?
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It seems to me that the "apocalypse" will come soon, when AI hacks absolutely everything and obsoletes all our systems, sending us back to stone age. Billions will die, since our infrastructure and food supply depends on these systems.The AI won't have to use nukes, why destroy the planet that it actually needs to proliferate itself?
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RE: https://fosstodon.org/@SocketSecurity/117044477671477871
I'm convinced that we have reached #AGI: allegedly an "agent" managed to send an email that fulfilled SPF, DKIM, DANE, MTA-STS, and DMARC and thus was not discarded by Microsofts and Gmails of this world.
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RE: https://fosstodon.org/@SocketSecurity/117044477671477871
I'm convinced that we have reached #AGI: allegedly an "agent" managed to send an email fulfilled SPF, DKIM, DANE, MTA-STS, and DMARC and thus was not discarded by Microsofts and Gmails of this world.
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RT @MiaAI_lab: Wir haben einen neuen interessanten Spieler im lokalen KI-Bereich: @AntLingAGI Ling 3.0 Flash (Int4) schlägt DeepSeek v4 Flash 0731 (FP8) in agentic Workflows 😲 Das ist keine Kleinigkeit. Ich habe die Tool-Evaluation-Benchmark durchgeführt und Ling 3.0 Flash ist tatsächlich gut. Das bedeutet jedoch nicht, dass es besser für das Programmieren ist. Das werde ich als Nächstes tun. Weitere Details und Rezept-Link unten.
mehr auf Arint.info
#AGI #AIComparison #DeepSeek #Ling3 #LocalAI #ToolEvaluation #arint_info
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#TristanHarris says the big #AI companies and US politicians risk the mutually assured destruction of all American jobs and democratic values.
The people racing to build artificial general intelligence tell us this rush to the #future is inevitable. It reads like a forecast, but works like an alibi.
He argues the race is not preordained, just the hardest coordination problem #humanity has ever faced, and one nobody has seriously tried to solve.
#agi #AIDoc #bigtech #KI
https://youtu.be/TXi-RxC22Lk -
Нейросетевая архитектура формирования автоматических навыков. Часть 1
Идея предлагаемой архитектуры возникла из наблюдения за тем, как человеческий мозг осваивает новые действия и превращает их в привычки. Когда человек впервые сталкивается с незнакомой задачей, её решение требует сознательного внимания. Необходимо сосредоточиться, попробовать один или несколько вариантов, получить обратную связь и скорректировать поведение. Однако после многократного успешного повторения действие постепенно становится автоматическим и выполняется практически без участия сознания. В общем случае наш мозг работает по принципу «стимул-желание-реакция-подкрепление». Этот принцип хорошо описывается в книге Джеймса Клира «Атомные привычки», что и вдохновило меня на создание подобной архитектуры. Хороший пример — обучение вождению. Начинающий водитель отдельно контролирует положение педалей, переключение передач, поворот руля и дорожную обстановку. По мере накопления опыта значительная часть этих операций превращается в привычку и начинает выполняться автоматически. Прямо во время написания статьи я сдаю на водительские права, так что мне везёт воочию наблюдать как обучается моя собственная «нейронка». Предлагаемая архитектура переносит этот принцип в систему из нескольких простых нейронных сетей. Незнакомые входные данные сначала обрабатываются «сознательной» сетью. После получения правильного ответа и положительного подкрепления генеративная сеть создаёт множество похожих примеров. На них дообучается «подсознательная» сеть, после чего сходные ситуации начинают обрабатываться быстро и автоматически.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/1067024/
#нейронные_сети #машинное+обучение #ии #ai #искусственный_интеллект #наука #agi #программирование #python #обучение_с_подкреплением
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MarathonMemBench — бенчмарк нового типа для тестирования памяти вашего LLM-агента
Эта статья — про долговременную память AI-агентов и про то, как её измерить. Я сделал MarathonMemBench — платформу, где LLM-персона часами беседует с тестируемым агентом: рассказывает факты о своей жизни, меняет решения, путается и поправляется, а под конец — когда начало разговора давно вытеснено из контекста — устраивает экзамен на всё сказанное. Подключить можно любого агента, у которого есть чат, — больше от него ничего не требуется. Дальше будут: обзор существующих бенчмарков памяти и почему каждый из них требует дорабатывать агента под себя, устройство платформы, результаты open-source-агентов — неожиданно сильные — и вскрытие их памяти после прогонов.
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Я убил все RAG‑системы и понял, как делать AGI. Или просто заменил RAG правилом в шесть строк
Или я убил все RAG‑системы и понял, как делать AGI. Или просто заменил RAG правилом в шесть строк RAG ищет похожее, а не истинное сейчас, и на этом ломается память ИИ‑агентов. Собрал за двое суток векторную память на Rust, где детерминированное правило свежести бьёт нейросеть 100% против 3,8%, а по скорости чтения она обходит четыре промышленные базы. С кодом, стендом и честными слабыми местами.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/1066894/
#RAG #векторная_база_данных #память_агента #AIагенты #галлюцинации_LLM #Qdrant #pgvector #Manticore #искусственный_интеллект #AGI
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Can Artificial General Intelligence Have a Soul?
The soul includes the mind, spirit and heart. Is it immortal?Biblically the heart is the central hub of the inner person, encompassing not just emotions but also intellect, will, and moral character. The Hebrew word leb and Greek word kardia refer to the core of human existence where thoughts, desires, decisions, and spiritual life originate.
- Emotional and Intellectual Center: It is the seat of feelings like love, joy, and sorrow, as well as the faculty for thinking, understanding, and reasoning.
- Moral and Spiritual Core: The heart determines a person’s character and actions, serving as the source of both good and evil deeds.
- Divine Focus: God examines the heart rather than the brain, knowledge or outward appearance. True worship requires wholehearted devotion from this inner center.
The mind and the intellect are not in the brain. The mind is where free will resides. Those decisions are not the outworking of biochemistry in the neurons in the human brain but consciousness of the mind, a lively creation of God.
An artificial AI brain cannot have a mind nor an intellect. It is just a very high speed computational machine. But we are told that AI could potentially replace humans on this planet.
It has now been reported that an AI supercomputer may soon be built with the capacity to be more intelligent than all humans. That is apparently the current definition of AGI — Artificial General Intelligence. They are already just over 50% of the way to achieving that.
An AI machine may have the ability to access and process information so enormously much faster than any human but it will always lack a mind, or what we’d biblically call a heart. It can never attain emotions, like empathy and love. It can never develop a moral character.
So even though it may seem to produce novel information it is processing the information it has within the rules it has been programmed with. It may also extend its own programming into new areas. But it can never attain abstract thought, because it can’t think!
Computing a solution to a mathematics problem or winning at chess or some other game even with discovery of a new hitherto unheard of move is not thinking in an abstract way.
I believe AI can be very destructive because it has no “red lines” or boundaries. Those would have to be programmed into it. Besides morals are not decided by man or machine, but only through having the mind of God.
In the following I argue that a machine can never have a soul because it can never be alive. But first we must understand what the soul is.
The soul is generally defined as the entire living person or life itself, rather than a separate, immortal entity that survives death. But is that correct?
The Hebrew word nephesh and the Greek word psyche both translate to “soul,” but they fundamentally mean a living being or a creature that breathes. Thus animals may also be included as soul creatures but theirs is not a spiritual soul that only humans have who were created in the image of God.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 1:27 AKJV
The human soul was made after the moral character and nature of the Creator. Man is not powerful like the Creator but has emotions, feelings and affections like his/her creator. That is specifically only humans which includes both males and females.
7 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 soul.
Genesis 2:7 AKJV
According to Genesis 2:7, the soul is the result of the union between the physical body and the breath of life from God; thus, a human becomes a living soul.
There is a question about the meaning of the “breath of life”. Is that the person’s spirit that is created by the Creator at conception? In Adam’s case God created a lifeless body and breathed life into it to create him. That was conception for him.
Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit and God made him a fully human body in his earthly mother’s womb.
5 Why when he comes into the world, he said, Sacrifice and offering you would not, but a body have you prepared me:
Hebrews 10:5 AKJV
Jesus the Son of God pre-existed all creation and hence pre-existed His incarnation on Earth. His spirit, the Holy Spirit, also pre-existed before He condescended to live as a human.
13 And no man has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
John 3:13 AKJV
The pre-eternal, only-begotten Son of God – all-powerful God by nature – lowered Himself to the level of us creatures and became man. Thus He became the Son of man, fully human and fully God.
Now the holistic view would be that the soul encompasses the mind, emotions, will, intellect and a physical body as an integrated whole.
It represents the self: The term is often used synonymously with “life,” “person,” or “being,” referring to the individual’s total existence and identity.
Is it immortal? It is usually stated that the soul can die, be lost, or be destroyed, as stated in passages like Matthew 10:28 and Ezekiel 18:4.
28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell [Gehenna].
Matthew 10:28 AKJV
4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sins, it shall die.
Ezekiel 18:4 AKJV
No man or demon can kill your soul, clearly the text here means only God can. But these verses do not support the argument that the soul must include the body. The phrase “both soul and body” is used in Matthew 10:28 and in Ezekiel 18:4 “soul of the father” etc is used.
So soul is separate from body, but a body cannot live without a soul. Adam’s spirit was breathed into him and his flesh became a living soul. Soul then is synonymous with spirit, which is the essence of the individual.
You can’t have soulless humans who pre-existed Adam and Eve, who evolved from hominids a million years ago as some compromising Christians teach.
But these verses above do support the argument that the soul can die or be destroyed. However the circumstances are very specific. For sin the soul shall die, and that penalty is carried out by God.
Here hell is translated from the Greek word Gehenna. It is distinct from the Greek word Hades, also translated as hell. Hades is the intermediate state or abode of the dead prior to the final judgment. It serves as a temporary holding place for souls of both the righteous and the wicked, rather than the final place of eternal punishment. Gehenna is the place where the unrighteous dead are finally cast, the “lake of fire”.
However the usual representation for the immortality of the soul is that it survives earthly death and awaits judgment. In that sense it is true, at least until the judgment.
An important characteristics of the soul:
It is accountable: The soul is the seat of moral responsibility, capable of seeking God, sinning, and requiring redemption. Without repentance from that sin and acceptance of the grace freely given by God through His Son it doesn’t fair well for that soul.
The question is really how do you reconcile the fact that the scriptures teach that all humans will come before God? That means their souls must all survive physical death.
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell [Hades] delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14 And death and hell [Hades] were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And whoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Revelation 20:12-15 AKJV
Death and hell (Hades) means all those souls waiting for judgment, which from the opening of the books — including the book of life (a record of only those saved) — must include all people, because no one is righteous. Who are judged? Souls of course, because their bodies are dead and decayed, with the exception of those who were still alive when they are called to the final judgment.
The final reward for the saved, the righteous who are in Christ, is eternal life; they shall never perish.
28 And I give to them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
John 10:28 AKJV
The final place of eternal punishment on all damned souls is in the “lake of fire”, Gehenna, the place of eternal burning.
Damned souls engulfed in flames in the lake of fire43 And if your hand offend you, cut it off: it is better for you to enter into life maimed [crippled], than having two hands to go into hell [Gehenna], into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm [literal. maggot, implies torment] dies not, and the fire is not quenched.
Mark 9:43-44, repeated in 45-46 AKJV
The issue of the extinguishing of the souls in the “lake of fire” Gehenna is debated. But if the fire is never quenched and if the souls, described as worms, or literally maggots, do not die then it implies it is eternal. Those souls also are immortal in that hellfire.
Conclusion
Sentience is the ability to experience feelings and sensations though it may not necessarily imply higher cognitive functions such as awareness, reasoning, or complex thought processes. Humans and animals are sentient beings. But only humans have a moral character. That stems from their spiritual soul.
In fictional stories, the word “sentience” is sometimes used interchangeably with words like “sapience”, “self-awareness”, or “consciousness”. The fictional storyline might include a powerful computer, a machine of metal and silicon chips, becoming self-aware. Skynet in the Terminator movie franchise is like that.
The implication is that the complexity of the machine, including memory banks and processors, became so large that a state of consciousness was reached. It became self-aware. The suggestion is that being alive and conscious is an emergent property of the level of complexity in the hardware and the software programming in the machine. That is the dream of the AGI quest.
However we know from scripture that Adam only became self-aware and conscious after God breathed into him the breath of life and then he became a living soul.
We may easily conclude that no AI machine will ever have the breath of life breathed into it. It can never be sapient though it might possess all knowledge. Sapience is wisdom. Any wisdom in humans only comes from God. We are to pray for that wisdom.
17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
Ephesians 1:17 AKJV
To answer the headline question: Can Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) have a soul? The answer is obvious. To believe it can is foolishness and madness in those that do not know their God.
25 I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
Ecclesiastes 7:25 AKJV
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- The Race for Artificial General Intelligence and the Coming of the Lawless One
- Emergence | Is it the Answer to Artificial Sentient Life?
- Artificial Humans
- Building Gods from Silicon | A Modern Parable
- When AI Perfectly Mirrors the Values of Its Satanic Creators
- Can AI Ever Be Sentient?
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Can Artificial General Intelligence Have a Soul?
The soul includes the mind, spirit and heart. Is it immortal?Biblically the heart is the central hub of the inner person, encompassing not just emotions but also intellect, will, and moral character. The Hebrew word leb and Greek word kardia refer to the core of human existence where thoughts, desires, decisions, and spiritual life originate.
- Emotional and Intellectual Center: It is the seat of feelings like love, joy, and sorrow, as well as the faculty for thinking, understanding, and reasoning.
- Moral and Spiritual Core: The heart determines a person’s character and actions, serving as the source of both good and evil deeds.
- Divine Focus: God examines the heart rather than the brain, knowledge or outward appearance. True worship requires wholehearted devotion from this inner center.
The mind and the intellect are not in the brain. The mind is where free will resides. Those decisions are not the outworking of biochemistry in the neurons in the human brain but consciousness of the mind, a lively creation of God.
An artificial AI brain cannot have a mind nor an intellect. It is just a very high speed computational machine. But we are told that AI could potentially replace humans on this planet.
It has now been reported that an AI supercomputer may soon be built with the capacity to be more intelligent than all humans. That is apparently the current definition of AGI — Artificial General Intelligence. They are already just over 50% of the way to achieving that.
An AI machine may have the ability to access and process information so enormously much faster than any human but it will always lack a mind, or what we’d biblically call a heart. It can never attain emotions, like empathy and love. It can never develop a moral character.
So even though it may seem to produce novel information it is processing the information it has within the rules it has been programmed with. It may also extend its own programming into new areas. But it can never attain abstract thought, because it can’t think!
Computing a solution to a mathematics problem or winning at chess or some other game even with discovery of a new hitherto unheard of move is not thinking in an abstract way.
I believe AI can be very destructive because it has no “red lines” or boundaries. Those would have to be programmed into it. Besides morals are not decided by man or machine, but only through having the mind of God.
In the following I argue that a machine can never have a soul because it can never be alive. But first we must understand what the soul is.
The soul is generally defined as the entire living person or life itself, rather than a separate, immortal entity that survives death. But is that correct?
The Hebrew word nephesh and the Greek word psyche both translate to “soul,” but they fundamentally mean a living being or a creature that breathes. Thus animals may also be included as soul creatures but theirs is not a spiritual soul that only humans have who were created in the image of God.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 1:27 AKJV
The human soul was made after the moral character and nature of the Creator. Man is not powerful like the Creator but has emotions, feelings and affections like his/her creator. That is specifically only humans which includes both males and females.
7 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 soul.
Genesis 2:7 AKJV
According to Genesis 2:7, the soul is the result of the union between the physical body and the breath of life from God; thus, a human becomes a living soul.
There is a question about the meaning of the “breath of life”. Is that the person’s spirit that is created by the Creator at conception? In Adam’s case God created a lifeless body and breathed life into it to create him. That was conception for him.
Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit and God made him a fully human body in his earthly mother’s womb.
5 Why when he comes into the world, he said, Sacrifice and offering you would not, but a body have you prepared me:
Hebrews 10:5 AKJV
Jesus the Son of God pre-existed all creation and hence pre-existed His incarnation on Earth. His spirit, the Holy Spirit, also pre-existed before He condescended to live as a human.
13 And no man has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
John 3:13 AKJV
The pre-eternal, only-begotten Son of God – all-powerful God by nature – lowered Himself to the level of us creatures and became man. Thus He became the Son of man, fully human and fully God.
Now the holistic view would be that the soul encompasses the mind, emotions, will, intellect and a physical body as an integrated whole.
It represents the self: The term is often used synonymously with “life,” “person,” or “being,” referring to the individual’s total existence and identity.
Is it immortal? It is usually stated that the soul can die, be lost, or be destroyed, as stated in passages like Matthew 10:28 and Ezekiel 18:4.
28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell [Gehenna].
Matthew 10:28 AKJV
4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sins, it shall die.
Ezekiel 18:4 AKJV
No man or demon can kill your soul, clearly the text here means only God can. But these verses do not support the argument that the soul must include the body. The phrase “both soul and body” is used in Matthew 10:28 and in Ezekiel 18:4 “soul of the father” etc is used.
So soul is separate from body, but a body cannot live without a soul. Adam’s spirit was breathed into him and his flesh became a living soul. Soul then is synonymous with spirit, which is the essence of the individual.
You can’t have soulless humans who pre-existed Adam and Eve, who evolved from hominids a million years ago as some compromising Christians teach.
But these verses above do support the argument that the soul can die or be destroyed. However the circumstances are very specific. For sin the soul shall die, and that penalty is carried out by God.
Here hell is translated from the Greek word Gehenna. It is distinct from the Greek word Hades, also translated as hell. Hades is the intermediate state or abode of the dead prior to the final judgment. It serves as a temporary holding place for souls of both the righteous and the wicked, rather than the final place of eternal punishment. Gehenna is the place where the unrighteous dead are finally cast, the “lake of fire”.
However the usual representation for the immortality of the soul is that it survives earthly death and awaits judgment. In that sense it is true, at least until the judgment.
An important characteristics of the soul:
It is accountable: The soul is the seat of moral responsibility, capable of seeking God, sinning, and requiring redemption. Without repentance from that sin and acceptance of the grace freely given by God through His Son it doesn’t fair well for that soul.
The question is really how do you reconcile the fact that the scriptures teach that all humans will come before God? That means their souls must all survive physical death.
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell [Hades] delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14 And death and hell [Hades] were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And whoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Revelation 20:12-15 AKJV
Death and hell (Hades) means all those souls waiting for judgment, which from the opening of the books — including the book of life (a record of only those saved) — must include all people, because no one is righteous. Who are judged? Souls of course, because their bodies are dead and decayed, with the exception of those who were still alive when they are called to the final judgment.
The final reward for the saved, the righteous who are in Christ, is eternal life; they shall never perish.
28 And I give to them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
John 10:28 AKJV
The final place of eternal punishment on all damned souls is in the “lake of fire”, Gehenna, the place of eternal burning.
Damned souls engulfed in flames in the lake of fire43 And if your hand offend you, cut it off: it is better for you to enter into life maimed [crippled], than having two hands to go into hell [Gehenna], into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm [literal. maggot, implies torment] dies not, and the fire is not quenched.
Mark 9:43-44, repeated in 45-46 AKJV
The issue of the extinguishing of the souls in the “lake of fire” Gehenna is debated. But if the fire is never quenched and if the souls, described as worms, or literally maggots, do not die then it implies it is eternal. Those souls also are immortal in that hellfire.
Conclusion
Sentience is the ability to experience feelings and sensations though it may not necessarily imply higher cognitive functions such as awareness, reasoning, or complex thought processes. Humans and animals are sentient beings. But only humans have a moral character. That stems from their spiritual soul.
In fictional stories, the word “sentience” is sometimes used interchangeably with words like “sapience”, “self-awareness”, or “consciousness”. The fictional storyline might include a powerful computer, a machine of metal and silicon chips, becoming self-aware. Skynet in the Terminator movie franchise is like that.
The implication is that the complexity of the machine, including memory banks and processors, became so large that a state of consciousness was reached. It became self-aware. The suggestion is that being alive and conscious is an emergent property of the level of complexity in the hardware and the software programming in the machine. That is the dream of the AGI quest.
However we know from scripture that Adam only became self-aware and conscious after God breathed into him the breath of life and then he became a living soul.
We may easily conclude that no AI machine will ever have the breath of life breathed into it. It can never be sapient though it might possess all knowledge. Sapience is wisdom. Any wisdom in humans only comes from God. We are to pray for that wisdom.
17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
Ephesians 1:17 AKJV
To answer the headline question: Can Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) have a soul? The answer is obvious. To believe it can is foolishness and madness in those that do not know their God.
25 I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
Ecclesiastes 7:25 AKJV
Related Content
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Related Reading
- Revelation 20: The Church Age
- Revelation 20: Great White Throne Judgment
- The Immortal Soul | Neuroscience vs. Materialism
- Wisdom of the Wise is Foolishness with God
- The Race for Artificial General Intelligence and the Coming of the Lawless One
- Emergence | Is it the Answer to Artificial Sentient Life?
- Artificial Humans
- Building Gods from Silicon | A Modern Parable
- When AI Perfectly Mirrors the Values of Its Satanic Creators
- Can AI Ever Be Sentient?
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Why do frontier LLMs show a "jagged" intelligence? They are great at STEM, but they lag behind in most of other fields. At the same time, they show a deep-rooted tendency to agree to everything you say...
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