Smart Dams and Malicious AIs | Jeff Zweerink and Hugh Ross

Join Hugh Ross and Jeff Zweerink as they discuss new discoveries taking place at the frontiers of science that have theological and philosophical implications, including the reality of God’s existence.
Smart Dams
More than 58,000 dams that are built higher than 15 meters (50 feet) exist on nearly all the world’s rivers. Consequently, migratory fish stocks have declined by 76% since 1970 and populations of “megafish” have declined by 94%. Two water resource engineers combined fish migratory taxonomy data with migratory fish life cycle and dam impact models to determine the best fish rescue strategies for five flagship fish species residing in the 12 large dams on the Yangtze River in China. They identified six major misjudgments in China’s fish rescue programs and concluded that large, effective fishways are essential for maintaining robust fish stocks.
Malicious AIs
The quest for more powerful and capable AIs inevitably involves making more sophisticated training algorithms and models with a larger number of parameters. While pursuing this quest, AI developers are also investigating how to align AIs with the values and behaviors we want. Recent research demonstrated that those two goals currently stand in opposition to one another. Specifically, making larger, more sophisticated models results in AIs that effectively resist training to eliminate malicious behavior-regardless of whether the malicious behavior was intentionally programmed or an unintended consequence. Such results provide additional evidence that we humans need to build godly character in ourselves so that we can wisely and responsibly develop and use these powerful AI tools.
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LINKS & RESOURCES -
Zhenli Huang and Haiying Li, “Dams Trigger Exponential Population Declines of Migratory Fish,” www.science.or...
Ivan Gonzalez, John Lopez Santander, and Victor H. Moll, “The Evaluation of a Definite Integral by the Method of Brackets Illustrating Its Flexibility,” arxiv.org/abs/...
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HOST: Hugh Ross
GUEST: Jeff Zweerink
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[@ccdnpb820]

It's comforting to know that common-sense solutions can be found for many problems. Now, if we could only convince our politicians to enact common-sense policies...

[@heathershanks7852]

I was raised in the (now terribly unfashionable) pre-trib dispensational tradition, and I still think it's accurate. So, my suspicion is that all these tech advances that have us riding on a razor's edge will indeed get out of hand, but that them doing so is necessary to what will happen during the tribulation. However. Once that is past, and the Millennial Kingdom commenced, why wouldn't the Lord allow use of all these fantastic things, seeing as He would be in charge and tech would be tamed and truly useful. I bet there will be an explosion of ingenuity and creativity at that time, and psychopathic AI will be relegated to history. It's the getting there, for some, that's the scary part.

[@pierreabbat6157]

Dammage versus efishency.

[@tlstewart123]

We'll need to develop a level of Democratic AI, Judges with actionable corrective action against bad AI?

[@MbeyaIsHome]

With population decline in china and worldwide, there will be less electicity demand in the future. And thus an opportunity to remove any troublesome dams

[@ji8044]

The Chinese population is not decreasing. The difference is 0.15%, essentially a rounding error. Also their demand for electricity is increasing dramatically, so no dams will be taken down unless it is to build more/bigger dams.