Not facetious at all, its an interesting question I never thought about.
In principle I can't think of anything preventing God from making another specie (or thing) also bearing the image of God. Perhaps God has did this already.
I think perhaps God can also become other things. While the idea that God incarnating as a GPU die sound really weird, I also can't think of anything making this impossible. However, my post was claiming that human's special status (not necessarily uniqueness) derives from the imago dei, not intelligence. Thus, I don't think God has any special reason to become a computer just because they have become really smart. God didn't become a human because we are intelligent, so if God is going to incarnate again I don't see any reason to be a computer as opposed to anything else.
And you're right that Christianity does make some weird claims. A theology based on the incarnation has to be weird, but to christians thats probably more of a feature than a bug. Afterall, observing a miracle is weird. However, the claims of Christianity is also very specific. Thus, it leaves a lot of possibilities open.
I did a bit of research and found this interesting declaration from an ecumenical council basically claiming God has not and will not incarnate a second time as some non-human thing:
> If anyone shall say that Christ, of whom it is said that he appeared in the form of God, and that he was united before all time with God the Word, and humbled himself in these last days even to humanity, had (according to their expression) pity upon the various falls which had appeared in the spirits united in the same unity (of which he himself is part), and that to restore them he passed through various classes, had different bodies and different names, became all to all, an Angel among Angels, a Power among Powers, has clothed himself in the different classes of reasonable beings with a form corresponding to that class, and finally has taken flesh and blood like ours and has become man for men; [if anyone says all this] and does not profess that God the Word humbled himself and became man: let him be anathema. [1]
I think this is binding to Catholic and Eastern Orthodox believers. However, I'm not familiar with the context of this ecumencial council, and I assume this declaration is probably not pushing back against the possibility of silicon Jesus or alien Jesus, since its targeting extreme Origenism (a group of non-orthodox Christians )
In Christian theology/philosophy, humanity is generally not defined by our intelligence, consciousness, or the ability to act a certain way. Most theologians through out history and different theological traditions all root human value in the concept of imago dei (that humans are divine images of God, and which God has became one, thus further bringing humans into union with God). Thus, machines becoming smarter or more conscious than us has no relevance to the ontological category of humanity, just as someone's IQ or productivity or age has no relevance to whether they should be considered fully human.
Lastly, coming from a Christian point of view, I would also slightly push back on the strong separation between practical and spiritual problems. Humans are intrinsically both body and mind, flesh and spirit, so anything practical affects us spiritually, and anything spiritual affect us practically. The Bible has a whole book recording the job loss of some guy (along with many other suffering), and the theological/spiritual implication of such matter.
These type of research seems to always assume that we are a ghost in a machine: the brain is what really matters, and the body is nothing more than a suit. The mind-body problem fascinates me, and I'm skeptical of anyone who held any position with certainty.
The only thing thats certain is that the debate on the mind-body problem is going to be no longer just philosophical/theological, but a practical problem with real world implication. Its exciting and terrifying that we may soon have empirical data refuting or supporting dualism.
I tried generating a Chinese rap song, and it did generate a pretty good rap. However, upon completion, it deleted the response, and showed
> I don’t understand Chinese yet, but I’m working on it. I will send you a message when we can talk in Chinese.
I tried some other languages and the same. It will generate non-English language, but once its done, the response is deleted and replaced with the message
I asked MetaAI about whether it can take PDF/Image input, and it started hallucinating, giving inconsistent answers. Is it just a bug, or poor prompt engineering, or hallucination?
> Me: can you take pdf?
> Meta AI: Yes, I can take PDFs as input. You can upload a PDF file, and I can extract text from it and respond based on the content. Please upload the PDF file using the "Upload a file" button or copy and paste the text from the PDF into the chat.
Remember, I can only access files uploaded or text copied during our current conversation. If you need to refer to a previous conversation, feel free to re-upload the file or re-paste the text.
Let me know how I can assist you with the PDF file!
> me: can you take pdf as input?
> Meta AI: I'm unable to directly accept PDF files as input. However, you can copy and paste the text from the PDF file into the chat, and I'll be happy to assist you!
Alternatively, if you have a specific question or request related to the content of the PDF file, feel free to ask, and I'll do my best to help!
(the article says meta plans to make it multimodal in the future)
I don't have a record of my sales, which (I think) I need for sales tax and income tax.
I operate and is tax resident in both Canada and USA.
>Are there any bank records, shipping records, tax deposits, you can use to re-construct some or all of the needed data
Thats what I'm trying to do now, collecting shipping and supply cost documents. However, with amazon's tax documents and sale spreasheet, I don't know how to do sales tax
i got in after 2 days and im just an undergrad with some experience tangentially related to machine learning. Too bad i only found out the hardware requirement after downloading 13GB of weights
if I printed book XYZ that is written by someone else, I'm creating value by creating the copy and enabling people to read it. Would you consider companies that sell bottled water as rent seeking? (assuming that natural fresh water is abundant in that area and free for all)
>Google's widgets have been reducing traffic to Wikipedia pretty dramatically.
But wouldn't this be a good thing? Since wikipedia is a nonprofit aiming to provide knowledge, google stealing & caching their content might help serve information to more while reducing wikipedia's server load, so IMO it might not be so bad for wikipedia.
In principle I can't think of anything preventing God from making another specie (or thing) also bearing the image of God. Perhaps God has did this already.
I think perhaps God can also become other things. While the idea that God incarnating as a GPU die sound really weird, I also can't think of anything making this impossible. However, my post was claiming that human's special status (not necessarily uniqueness) derives from the imago dei, not intelligence. Thus, I don't think God has any special reason to become a computer just because they have become really smart. God didn't become a human because we are intelligent, so if God is going to incarnate again I don't see any reason to be a computer as opposed to anything else.
And you're right that Christianity does make some weird claims. A theology based on the incarnation has to be weird, but to christians thats probably more of a feature than a bug. Afterall, observing a miracle is weird. However, the claims of Christianity is also very specific. Thus, it leaves a lot of possibilities open.
I did a bit of research and found this interesting declaration from an ecumenical council basically claiming God has not and will not incarnate a second time as some non-human thing:
> If anyone shall say that Christ, of whom it is said that he appeared in the form of God, and that he was united before all time with God the Word, and humbled himself in these last days even to humanity, had (according to their expression) pity upon the various falls which had appeared in the spirits united in the same unity (of which he himself is part), and that to restore them he passed through various classes, had different bodies and different names, became all to all, an Angel among Angels, a Power among Powers, has clothed himself in the different classes of reasonable beings with a form corresponding to that class, and finally has taken flesh and blood like ours and has become man for men; [if anyone says all this] and does not profess that God the Word humbled himself and became man: let him be anathema. [1]
I think this is binding to Catholic and Eastern Orthodox believers. However, I'm not familiar with the context of this ecumencial council, and I assume this declaration is probably not pushing back against the possibility of silicon Jesus or alien Jesus, since its targeting extreme Origenism (a group of non-orthodox Christians )
[1] https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3812.htm