First off, you need to understand that I grew up in the seventies and eighties, before computers, cellphones, and cable TV. When I was a child, we had one television, (luckily it was color) in the house and it had four channels, five on a clear, windless day. Also, no remote controls, if you wanted to change channels you had to get up off the couch and walk to the television and turn the dial.
You young people today have no idea how easy you have it! Now I sound like my dad. When we would complain about something he would say, “when I was your age I had to walk to school,” and my siblings and I would chime in, “uphill both ways in five feet of snow.” We heard that story a million times if we heard it once.
I remember when cable television first came to our little neighborhood. It was 1981. We went from having four channels to having 35 channels overnight. It was the most wonderful thing in the world to four young children. Our favorite channel was MTV of course. We would sit in from of the television every afternoon and watch music videos for hours. Imagine that…MTV actually used to show music videos, what a concept. But, enough about the good ole’ days.
Technology has come a long way since the glorious eighties. We have cellphones now that can do pretty much anything a computer can do. I carry an iPhone 11 that I talk and text on, watch YouTube videos on, keep up with friends on Facebook, shoot videos, and take pictures on. It’s also my navigator. Amazing, isn’t it?
But seriously, think about how technology has exploded in the last couple of decades. Today you can go to school on your computer at home, there are robots that do surgery, virtual reality video games; it seems like the sky is the limit. It’s so amazing, but it’s also a little frightening.
With the invention of A.I. (artificial intelligence) tech is getting a little too big for its britches. I mean sure, we’ve had Siri and Alexa for a long time now and while they are able to learn and adapt to certain things, they are dinosaurs compared to what we have in the field of A.I. today.
We now have androids that look, talk, and learn just like a human. They can show emotions like happiness and anger and learn without having to be constantly programmed by a human. There are A.I. programs such as Chatbot that can write books, write term papers, create art, and do jobs that once only humans could do.
Come on people, did we not learn anything from the movie iRobot? Just look at how A.I has evolved. We have gone from Siri to iRobot at warp speed. Am I the only one that’s even slightly concerned about where all of this is headed?
To borrow a quote from Jeff Goldbloom’s character Ian Macomb in the first Jurassic Park film, “Don’t you see the danger inherit in what you’re doing? This is the most awesome power the planet has ever seen, and you wield it like a kid that’s found his fathers gun. You raced so fast to develop this technology and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunch box and now you’re selling it!”
All these tech geniuses like Elon Musk and others who have a hand in this stuff have been so preoccupied with playing God that no one ever stopped to consider whether they even should develop it. No one is thinking about the long-term ramifications of A.I. on the human race. In Jurassic Park they created dinosaurs that ended up attacking and killing people because the scientists that created them never considered the danger of creating such things. They developed all these safety contingents yet for all their planning, they couldn’t control their creations. It’s the same problem with A.I today. It’s growing out of control.
It's evolving so fast that it’s inevitable that it will eventually outgrow the little cage that we’ve built to contain it and when that happens, (and it will, if Jesus doesn’t come back real soon) we will be living in a world where humans are no longer needed. It will be a world that mirrors the nightmare that was iRobot.
You may think I’m crazy, and that’s fine, but I’m telling you that A.I. has already evolved to a point that it can learn and adapt without human interference. It’s not fully autonomous yet, but at the rate it’s evolving it could be within the next decade.
Now, I seriously doubt that this world will be the same in a decade. I know it won’t. I believe that the rapture will happen sometime in the next decade, probably sooner than any of us think. The Lord will return for His bride and this world will be cast into the worst kind of hell it has ever experienced (the 7 year tribulation) and there is noting that all of this artificial intelligence can do to change that.
I’m not saying to totally scrap all A.I. systems and programs, I’m saying that we need to do some back-peddling and start thinking about the consequences of the power that we are playing with. It’s dangerous.
Folks, Jesus is standing on the edge of Heaven waiting on the Father to say, “goo get your bride.” I hope you’re ready to meet Him.
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