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This is a challenge/suggestion/appeal to Catholic
apologists, academics, computer scientists, religious,
bishops and anyone in between to come together,
following the example of St. Maximilian Kolbe, to
apply the best technology to evangelization.
Secular corporations have used expansive search
algorithms and/or relatively recent advances in
“deep-learning” or “artificial intelligence” (perhaps
more accurately called “assisted intelligence”),
sometimes in conjunction with adaptations in computer
hardware (such as graphical processing units or GPU)
for other purposes
to demonstrate computers outperforming the extant most
skilled human individuals at tasks that thitherto were
best done by gifted human persons. Examples include
playing 1) chess (by IBM), 2) the television trivia
game show “Jeopardy” (again by IBM), 3) the oriental
board game “Go” (by Google), and 4) more recently
chess (again by Google), but this time trouncing one
of the strongest chess computers along the lines of
example #1 (which in turn trounces human
grandmasters). The emphasis on superior technology in
this example was that the Google computer learned to
play chess in just four hours before engaging in
competition.
Note that IBM “trained” the competing computer (which
received and answered the questions orally for the
Jeopardy game) by “reading” numerous publications, and
the Google assisted intelligence device also had a
structured learning environment.
Hence the challenge: to iteratively build and maintain
the best Catholic apologetics computer(s) in the world,
with structured learning environments,
“reading” most relevant “literature” in the world, and applying
logic (along the lines of chess) to debate/explain the points
at hand, with all comers (including possibly other debating
computers). This project requires development, but it can
be done (at least I don’t see why not), God-willing, if not first
by fervent Catholics, then as a catch-up measure in response
to organizations that do not have the fullness of truth as
their basis, whether they be major corporations trying to
engrain brand loyalty into the fodder of emerging child minds,
continuing Communist/totalitarian regimes that prohibit
dissemination of the truths that threaten their enforced
grip on power, Protestants that deny some of the key
points of Catholic faith, or Muslim fundamentalists.
Why should Catholics develop and use such technology?
We have the great commission - “to preach the gospel to all nations”.
apologists, academics, computer scientists, religious,
bishops and anyone in between to come together,
following the example of St. Maximilian Kolbe, to
apply the best technology to evangelization.
Secular corporations have used expansive search
algorithms and/or relatively recent advances in
“deep-learning” or “artificial intelligence” (perhaps
more accurately called “assisted intelligence”),
sometimes in conjunction with adaptations in computer
hardware (such as graphical processing units or GPU)
for other purposes
to demonstrate computers outperforming the extant most
skilled human individuals at tasks that thitherto were
best done by gifted human persons. Examples include
playing 1) chess (by IBM), 2) the television trivia
game show “Jeopardy” (again by IBM), 3) the oriental
board game “Go” (by Google), and 4) more recently
chess (again by Google), but this time trouncing one
of the strongest chess computers along the lines of
example #1 (which in turn trounces human
grandmasters). The emphasis on superior technology in
this example was that the Google computer learned to
play chess in just four hours before engaging in
competition.
Note that IBM “trained” the competing computer (which
received and answered the questions orally for the
Jeopardy game) by “reading” numerous publications, and
the Google assisted intelligence device also had a
structured learning environment.
Hence the challenge: to iteratively build and maintain
the best Catholic apologetics computer(s) in the world,
with structured learning environments,
“reading” most relevant “literature” in the world, and applying
logic (along the lines of chess) to debate/explain the points
at hand, with all comers (including possibly other debating
computers). This project requires development, but it can
be done (at least I don’t see why not), God-willing, if not first
by fervent Catholics, then as a catch-up measure in response
to organizations that do not have the fullness of truth as
their basis, whether they be major corporations trying to
engrain brand loyalty into the fodder of emerging child minds,
continuing Communist/totalitarian regimes that prohibit
dissemination of the truths that threaten their enforced
grip on power, Protestants that deny some of the key
points of Catholic faith, or Muslim fundamentalists.
Why should Catholics develop and use such technology?
We have the great commission - “to preach the gospel to all nations”.