AI now beats humans at basic tasks - new benchmarks are needed

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[–]In-the-clouds 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

AI has become.... "so advanced that they now very nearly match or exceed human performance in tasks including reading comprehension, image classification and competition-level mathematics...." and let us not fail to mention its ability to disseminate propaganda and to control the minds of human beings with lies and deception.

I suggest the new benchmark be: the capacity to love. Pure, undefiled, unselfish love.... I think the soul of a human being will always be able to outdo AI in that benchmark.

[–]Titanic 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You are right. According to Catholic philosophy, robots can't know or love AT ALL because you need a spirit made in the image of God for either of those things. They can store concepts in represented form, but can't really know them.

To love is to will the good. They can't do that since they have no free will.

Angels aren't material and never will be, yet they can know and love because they too are spirits made in the image of God, but very different than us in other ways.

However, if God were to create a spirit for a robot, he could indeed make one capable of loving.

[–]In-the-clouds 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree with your point that a spirit from God, made in his likeness, is necessary to love. We all have a spark of God's spirit in our heart, so we are all capable of loving whenever we point our will in that direction.

Angels aren't material and never will be

Angels can take on human form and at any time revert back to being invisible. You may have seen angels and assumed they were humans. When you meet strangers, be kind to them, because you never know when you are actually doing a good deed to an angel.

Hebrews 13:2

“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”

Also, angels must become human and walk on this earth, as the Lord himself did, if they want to become children of God.