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Who's playing Jeopardy? Hey, That's not just a game!
Posted: 17 Feb 2011 09:53 AM PST
Jeopardy. Risk of loss or injury; peril or danger. This has never really been a very fitting name for the TV game show - until now! Last night, a special final round of Jeopardy was played, the third in a set of three rounds of a contest that matched two former champions with a newcomer named Watson. Watson won by a wide margin. This would be extraordinary - but what's really extraordinary is that Watson is a computer system!'Jeopardy' III: Watson HALs his way with the humans (2/16/2011)
What this feat reveals is that man has already arrived at the place where we (IBM) can beat ourselves (the best of us) at our own game. By focusing and leveraging strengths in data management, many diverse kinds of applications can now be enhanced beyond what individual men may offer in the way of reliable speed and accuracy. Watson wasn't displaying perfection, but perfection wasn't required. The ability to harness artificial intelligence (AI) in the real world to exceed the capabilities of men has been proven in a fair arena. The testimony of the game winning Watson is that you are in JEOPARDY, human. Your days of having the illusion of dominion in the earth are numbered.
As this article reveals (IBM, Nuance Envision Watson Helping Doctors), "solutions" are already being sought in the health sector. I put the word in quotes because the only solution in sight is how to control mankind in such a way that there is no escape. I'll elaborate on the connection shortly, but I will note here how this compares to the Nazi "Final Solution." Some will escape as from that earlier version of the trap, but only with the Lord's intervention. Where Hitler had some success moving the devil's agenda forward, the next up will be assured the short term victory accorded the Beast in the book of Revelation.
Sentient machines and those that approach such a level are very familiar in popular culture, featuring heavily in the plots of the Matrix, Terminator, TRON, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek episode: The Ultimate Computer and many others. The fictional plot devices and doomsday scenarios should give us pause because there is a very real threat posed by trusting in technology with superior decision making abilities that is networked to weapons and/or vital services. What motivates men to continue in that direction is what compels us to rebel against our Creator and serve another, one who deceives us in our arrogance with the grand delusion that we are actually in control.Some little known history and the meaning of the imagery involved should speak loudly about what Watson's game show victory really means. This comes not as a fearful reaction to fictional works but with the courage to look at the real world with faith in the Creator.
11) And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
12) And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13) And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14) And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15) And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Revelation 13:11-1512) And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13) And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14) And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15) And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
What kind of image of the beast is it that will be given power? A golem, a creature of clay? Son of Watson? The false prophet beast will have power from the dragon to give life to the image. Will the spirit of Nimrod, Apollo and Horus incarnate into such a form as networked circuitry?
Will the advances in knowledge about sub-atomic particle physics and time-space and space-time portals being sought through the unprecedented CERN LHC effort ultimately result in weaponizing man in a war against his creator? It seems likely to me. Ray Kurzweil's projection for what he calls singularity is in view, is it not? If he knows what it really means, he's not letting on. If he doesn't make the supernatural connection, he, too, is in for a big surprise!Full article HERE
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