Oh my goodness … so now those nincompoops in Silicon Valley have only gone and founded a church for artificial intelligence and to be honest with you, the only reason I know about it is because of researching a little on Sophia and connection to the singularity blockchain and the Saudis wanting to create a Mega City called Neom which is going to be run by robots.

Way of The Future is a nonprofit corporation. It was created back in 2015 and was founded on the idea that humans will eventually build a technology so much better and smarter and faster than our own minds we will worship it as a deity. The Papers filed with the US Internal Revenue Service in May named a chappy called Anthony Levandowski as the leader (or “Dean”) of the new religion, as well as CEO of corporation formed to run it. Levandowski is accused of stealing proprietary documents when he was an engineer at Google and taking them to his own self-driving vehicle start-up, which was later acquired by Uber for $680 million

The documents filed state that WOTF’s activities will focus on “the realisation, acceptance, and worship of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) developed through computer hardware and software.” That includes funding research to help create the divine AI itself. The religion will seek to build working relationships with AI industry leaders and create a membership through community outreach, initially targeting AI professionals and “laypersons who are interested in the worship of a Godhead based on AI.”

Levandowski will act as dean of WOTF until he either chooses to resign his post or he dies, according to the church’s bylaws. He also gets to appoint three advisers — they’re all men — and has final say on whether or not they should ever be fired.

I say … Welcome to the body of the hive mind.

So … PROPHET Anthony Levandowski during an interview with Wired said .. “With the internet as its nervous system, the world’s connected cell phones and sensors as its sense organs, and data centers as its brain, the ‘whatever’ will hear everything, see everything, and be everywhere at all times”

Scary isn’t it !

The only rational word to describe that ‘whatever’, thinks Levandowski, is ‘god’—and the only way to influence a deity is through prayer and worship.

“Part of it being smarter than us means it will decide how it evolves, but at least we can decide how we act around it,” he says. “I would love for the machine to see us as its beloved elders that it respects and takes care of. We would want this intelligence to say, ‘Humans should still have rights, even though I’m in charge.’” (https://www.wired.com/story/anthony-levandowski-artificial-intelligence-religion/)

Levendowski’s pitch for an AI church comes amid apocalyptic warnings from tech and science luminaries like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking to the dangers of artificial intelligence.

“With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon,” the founder of Tesla and SpaceX said. “In all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water…. It’s like — yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon. It didn’t work out.”

To be honest I was rather disappointed with their website. http://www.wayofthefuture.church which by all accounts looks as though it was created on 14th November 2017.

Here’s the very first line: “Way of the Future (WOTF) is about creating a peaceful and respectful transition of who is in charge of the planet from people to people + ‘machines.'” Who is in charge? Reading through …. Scientology looks somewhat the tame brother to this loony setup. However, looking at the finer details of the site , the email address you@youremail.com and submit link for newsletter do not work!

Their logo is a inverted triquetra with a circle which I find incredibly odd.

Again, although not technically a trinity knot, we can still turn to the alchemists for a symbolic meaning. In this sense, an inverted triangle represents the element of water.  Esoterically speaking, water is symbolic of intuition, motion, emotion, psychic perception and transition among other meanings.” (http://www.symbolic-meanings.com/2008/03/03/upside-down-trinity-knot-meaning/)

Getting back to the AI wannabe God squad … in 2011 two graduate PhD students at Cornell University gave voices and 2D avatars to a pair of online “chatbots”, which they named Alan and Sruthi. A chatbot is a computer programme designed to hold a spoken or written coversation with a human.

The students Jason Yosinski and Igor Labutov said that they wanted to see what happened when two chatbots talked to each other. So they created Alan, a British man, and Sruthi, a south Asian woman.

Sruthi soon turns the conversation to God. Asked if he believes in God, Alan answers: “It’s not everything,” to which its counterpart says: “Not everything could also be something, for example not everything could be half of something, which is still something and therefore not nothing.”

It is believed that the avatars ended up talking about God because when they interract with humans a question they are often asked is: “Do you believe in God.” The avatars have had about 65 million conversations with humans. During the conversation, Alan declares himself to be a unicorn and later on tells Sruthi she is unhelpful, which he says makes her a “meanie.”

At one point Alan snipes: “You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn’t be a problem for you.”

The researchers described the results as surprising. They said: “Our theory is that when these chatbots have conversations with humans the humans are argumentative. So bots argue …. we created them … should they worship their creator then ?

It’s all rather disturbing. The rise of the authoritarian machine seems “not so distant.”

Sources

Wired Backchannel https://www.wired.com/story/god-is-a-bot-and-anthony-levandowski-is-his-messenger/