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8) we don't know if there is a God or not.
OpenEars123
If the AI had superior intelligence, they would say that God/Christianity is man made. Because it clearly is.
AliceBleachWhite
I think a huge degree of what was returned in asking such a question would rely on the "personality" of the AI, as well as the AI's interpretation of the term "god".
The AI, I would suspect, would return a maddenly interpretive answer of the sort cliche to the old wise man on the mountain.
Otherwise, I would suspect something similar to:
8) we don't know if there is a God or not.
would be the most likely, and probable answer in acknowledgement that there's not enough data to arrive at any conclusion from an entirely objective point of view.
Again, it would depend on the personality of the machine.
It could just as well answer; "I see no data that would give indication for an actual personified god".
It doesn't take much by way of intelligence to be objective in that respect, and we need not any AIs to tell us there's no data, or not enough data to make any such conclusions.
Gods are things of Faith anyway, so, no matter the machine, people will adhere to their superstitions and mythologies regardless the answers.
Lucid Lunacy
reply to post by spartacus699
8) we don't know if there is a God or not.
I would think most likely this.
However the central premise of post-human (post singularity) is that this intelligence would transcend our current intelligence to such an extent that it would be futile to even speculate on. Their answer would likely change the nature of that question, in the sense they would be thinking with entirely new paradigms. In other words I don't think it's so much a matter of what their answers to our questions are, so much as what kinds of new questions will they be asking.edit on 18-12-2013 by Lucid Lunacy because: (no reason given)
muzzleflash
Well, let's say you coded a dictionary of terminology into the AI's database.
The AI's capability to think or decide will be based entirely on the mathematical nature of the information provided.
So for example, if we tell them the word "God", they will need definitions in order to categorize and use the term properly in the context of other terms.
After feeding them textbook definitions, I would expect the AI will assert that "Everything is defined as God" and the only way to "correct this" is to wipe it's memory banks clean. Some may view such things as an enhancement while others a corruption. Hard to say until we see exactly how such things will manifest.
Why would giving it a textbook definition of "God" cause it to presume everything is associated with it?
Because the definitions include terminology such as "infinite, eternal, omnipotent and omnipresent", etc.
A computer won't pull any punches, it will probably understand these terms in a very literal and extreme manner, so would probably need additional development to balance out the issues such things may entail.
Shadow Herder
We judge of the power of an intelligence by its works as no human being could create that which is produced by nature, it is evident that the first cause must be an Intelligence superior to man. Whatever may be the prodigies accomplished by human intelligence, that intelligence itself must have a cause and the greater the results achieved by it, the greater must be the cause of which it is the effect. It is this Supreme Intelligence that is the first cause of all things, whatever the name by which mankind may designate it.
Will man ever become able to comprehend the mystery of the Divinity?
"When his mind shall no longer be obscured by matter, and when, by his perfection, he shall have brought himself nearer to God, be will see and comprehend Him."
The inferiority of the human faculties renders it impossible for man to comprehend the essential nature of God. In the infancy of the race, man often confounds the Creator with the creature, and attributes to the former the imperfections of the latter. But, in proportion as his moral sense becomes developed, man's thought penetrates more deeply into the nature of things, and he is able to form to himself a juster and more rational idea of the Divine Being, although his idea of that Being must always be imperfect and incomplete.
Spirits book , Allan Kardec