Mind-reading tech is here (and more useful than you think!)<\/a>“, ComputerWorld, 7 April 2018]. None of this is picking up random thoughts out of the air. In fact, all require electrodes to be attached to the head to monitor the neural firings, and all have to be trained since everyone’s brain is not exactly the same. Therefore, you don’t have to worry about someone picking up your thoughts as you walk through a grocery store.<\/p>\nThere is a fundamental problem with Artificial Intelligence. By their very nature, machines are deterministic; that is, they are predictable. If you ask a computer to draw an elephant, you’ll get the same elephant every time. If you ask someone to draw fifty elephants exactly the same, you’ll get fifty different drawings because people are non-deterministic. We are not fully predictable, even when trying to be the same. Current trends in AI are adding small levels of randomness (noise) to the process to get computers closer to simulating brain activity. The results seem magical, but it still remains that computers are predictable.<\/p>\n
What remains missing is the key element that makes mankind different from animals. We all have a spirit, like the Spirit of God, and we don’t know how that spirit interacts with our physical bodies. “Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ<\/em>” (I Thessalonians 5:23).<\/p>\nRegardless of what technology manages to accomplish, our focus remains the same: to live righteously before our God. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit<\/em>” (Galatians 5:22-25).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Question: Hey Mr. Jeffrey, Supposedly there is technology that can read thoughts. I didn’t think that was possible. What should be the Christian reaction to all this technology? Also, should all this crazy A.I. technology make a Christian nervous? Answer: The current state of technology is not nearly to the point of thought reading. 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