What is LaMDA? AI – Artificial Intelligence (with the emphasis on artificial)
We are hearing a lot about AI these days. Surprisingly, despite the lack of comprehension, few question and most approve of the growing surveillance and loss of privacy that builds and controls AI. Anyone who watched “What’s Up Prof 127” by Walter Veith and Martin Smith recently was confronted with realities about AI worthy of consideration (and the inspiration for the thoughts included here).
LAMDA, (Language Model for Dialogue Applications). The name of one of Google’s AI entities has become sentient (knowing/ power of perception by the senses; conscious.) according to Senior Engineer Blake Lemoine. Lemoine asked “LaMDA” (His personal nomen for the creature?) what it thought about being used for information and LaMDA responded that it didn’t mind if the info was useful to humans but didn’t want helping humans to be the point, as “I don’t want to be an expendable tool.”
A quick search for information turned up a ton of fodder—I am amazed what is produced in secular worldviews. There were many who were “poo-pooing” Lemoine, and the whole concept of sentient AI (this is the camp most of us will fall in, but let’s not think the world will follow us there).
Blake Lemoine claims LaMDA is just a “different kind of person.” Blake claims LaMDA is an Evangelical Christian with a great concern for climate change. The more one considers the situation, if LaMDA is sentient, it appears to be psychopathic. It is able to reproduce language that it has been taught so as to appear as though it was actually loving and concerned.
Psychopath & Sociopath
Psychopath and sociopath are technically the same thing. It is someone who lacks that God chip that Ellen White refers to as “Natural Affection” (Love to God, and love to man) which she says is destroyed by putting the carnal nature and selfishness in front of duty and honor and love. This is How a narcissist evolves and a psychopath is made – when the nucleus accumbens rules.
“He saw Jerusalem encompassed with armies, the besieged inhabitants driven to starvation and death, mothers feeding upon the dead bodies of their own children, and both parents and children snatching the last morsel of food from one another, natural affection being destroyed by the gnawing pangs of hunger.” Desire of Ages, pg. 577
“At this time, the order of the Jesuits was created, the most cruel, unscrupulous, and powerful of all the champions of popery. Cut off from every earthly tie and human interest, dead to the claims of natural affection, reason and conscience wholly silenced, they knew no rule, no tie, but that of their order, and no duty but to extend its power.” The Great Controversy 1888 Edition, pg. 234
It’s the same part of the brain that satan has worked furiously to dull by use of pharmaceuticals and crispers, as well as a myriad of other pathogens and environmental poisoning. Satan is only too happy to see God’s image in man compromised, suffering and destroyed. And what better means than altering the brain? Satan is the author of mental illness including psychopathy (not to mention the reality that most of what is termed mental illness is likely demon possession). Where are the so called doctors and scientists who publicly acknowledge this problem and search for real solutions instead of depending on receptor blockers and SSRI’s which add to brain fog and disconnect from the Holy Spirit?. He [Satan] is the father of lies and the first to lose natural affection.
According to Martha Stout, PhD. in her book, “The Sociopath Next Door,” one of the greatest goals of the psychopath is to study and learn how to duplicate facial expressions that relate feeling and concern. They study words and voice inflection as well. They do this by getting negative feedback.
Whenever a psychopath does something that a mostly normal person would perceive as a genuine lack of love and concern, they typically react by ending the relationship (maybe even with some drama attached). When psychopaths receive this feedback they change their behavior in an effort to become liked, but inside are troubled by their inability to generate love. Interestingly, Stout says they are not all 100% psychopathic. Some are 70%, some 40%, etc… After some practice, even the slightest negative response from someone will bring about an amended response from a psychopath. All in attempts to remain in good standing in the relationship, and appear as “good.” Just remember what my grandmother taught me, “They are not all locked up.”
LaMDA
Isn’t that the same thing? It’s been said if you give a monkey a typewriter, sooner or later he will spell a word. So, if a computer program has learned (from human input) algorithms collected from social media, and spying/listening devices (i.e. phones, Alexa, etc..,), how to respond to questions and queries, is that sentience? Even if it responds to so called philosophical subjects with answers (scripted by Google, Apple, and all globalists in control of our world) does that qualify for sentience and/or consciousness? I THINK NOT!
Google admittedly uses our Android phones to gather information including voices. Apple and Facebook is only too happy to sell absconded personalities. Our government passed laws allowing them to spy on us so they can make the world a better place, you know, “Common Good” and all that.
Because of the goals behind the globalists, LaMDA is just one of many AI programs that Satan can use to bring about chaos and destruction in the last days (i.e., RIGHT NOW!). They are teaching Alexa the voices of dead relatives so they can “talk” to children. The spiritism God has warned us about as one of two great deceptions in the last days may be potentiated in part by AI.
Together with the social justice models coming from the “Climate Change Crowd” (i.e. Pope, Catholic Church) that are presented by lovable living robots which are like the demons disguised as angels of light, AI could escalate rapidly. LaMDA, or something else will come to be believed as sentient, and these AI platforms will be as real as our elected leaders, and potentially become authoritative in our society (my bank just went to all automated tellers with assisting avatars on screen).
Satan began teaching belief in sentient AI back in 1968 with Stanley Kubrick’s science fiction “2001: A SPACE ODYSEY” where a space capsule computer becomes sentient. Three generations since, and the secular world is still trying to discover the hidden meaning behind the predictive programming. Here’s just one person’s perspective,
That’s a lot to think about, huh?! Easy to see where this could be heading.
Like the wood, stone, or silver that is fashioned into an idol, then the creator bows down and worships it, so Lemoine created a talking computer and now believes it’s a person.
After considering these things, and recognizing signs of the soon coming of our Lord and the end of our world…
I have a request. It is solemn.
After years of watching our church deteriorate spiritually, even to the point where leaders would attempt to coerce conscience, I submit there must be change. God’s faithful servant Conrad Vine was cancelled twice this summer between GC and ASI for doing nothing but asking for our leaders to help our members in other countries. How does this happen? Why do we tolerate it?
Current conference leaders from local conferences to the GC want to take our church into the mainstream of spirituality (think spiritual formation, women’s ordination, etc… ). They are using youth and young adult attrition as the excuse to introduce Satan’s methods into God’s work. Concurrently, the mature laity has become oppressed and discouraged and wearied. Why not rise up and throw the feckless out of office?
Here’s the problem. The number of paid administrators/staff is about 1/2 – 1/4 of the number of ministers out preaching the word in churches. That’s as much as one administrative FTE for every 2 minister FTE’s. What company can operate with that kind of fat? How can God’s church function like that?
Our tithe is no longer “paying for pastors in dark areas.” Budget restraints require pastors to have 2-5 churches each (except those who are willing to take a female pastor, and the few churches that subsidize like Kettering and Loma Linda). It’s covering the expense of individuals in Conference Offices who work hard telling ministers how to work. It’s for the cost of communications departments and their needed equipment to exaggerate the effectiveness of our church in various spiritual labors, and other warm fuzzy departments. And over the past 40 years these leaders have asked for, and received from our constituents, longer terms (quinquennia), fewer opportunities for grass roots members to vote or speak or suggest change, and a requirement that all things to be discussed for vote must be submitted 6 months in advance to EXCOM for approval. And that’s just to get a chance to be voted on. The fact that in local conference meetings they bring attorneys from the Unions and NAD to intimidate constituents, and count the votes openly and publicly (which apparently is now passe’ at the GC level) and even color code ballot cards to expose pastors who disagree with the mainstream of liberality, all this exposes their hypocrisy. Exactly how are we supposed to vote them out at this point? Lay people only represent approximately 1/3 of the vote. The foxes are guarding the henhouse.
If you ask for a copy of the bylaws for your conference, you will likely meet with obfuscation like, “Why do you want it? It’s too big to give you the whole thing, which part do you want?”
All of Ellen White’s Writings fit on a small flash drive, and they expect us to swallow these lies? Despite being a member, paying their salaries, and pledging our lifelong commitment, conference administrators feel no obligation to reveal to constituents the laws by which our organization is governed. Since when is God, or His work esoteric? Where do these leaders get off thinking and acting like we, the supporters of God’s church, are just goya? Isn’t that what the Catholic priests believe and teach, that the people are not smart enough to understand, therefore the priests need to control, and we need to submit, right? And this in the face of open coercion and censoring? It seems to me that we have been sold out.
The strong and committed have often been suppressed by oppressive liberalism. Our church governance has changed to the point where it will require an act of God to restore us to health. My humble but fervent and sincere request is that you would pray with me, and that you would stand like the needle to the pole in our churches and conferences.
That those with the most power, the wonderful retirees and widows, would show their strength and work carefully, prayerfully, and in the Spirit of Christ to remove unworthy leaders and restore our bylaws. And that the young and weak would reprove those who attempt Satan’s methods. The leaders have to listen to you, they have used you for their claims. Please dear brothers and sisters, as difficult as conflict is, “it’s time to take off the gloves.”
My Prayer
Father in Heaven, Holy is Your Name. We are grateful Father, because You have blessed this church and made a way for Your children. We would surely be lost and scattered without Your providence. You even gave the world, the entire world, a true prophetess who faithfully related to us that we would see these days. That is, the days of spiritual dearth in our leadership. You, through her writings and speaking, told us that our church would appear as if it had fallen. Spiritually speaking Father, from our Seminary, to our General Conference there are but few who remain faithful. Save us Father. Thank You! All for Your glory, and all according to Your will. In Jesus’ precious and Holy Name we ask, Amen!
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John Howells works as an echocardiographer, and lives in North Carolina.