Listen "Rapid Tibetan Plateau Uplift | AI: Efficiency vs. Learning"
Episode Synopsis
Join astrophysicists Hugh Ross and Jeff Zweerink as they discuss new discoveries with theological and philosophical implications that point to the reality of God’s existence.
Researchers have reconstructed ancient lake temperatures in the Qaidam Basin (western China)to show that either 11.0 or 7.6 million years ago, the northern Tibetan Plateau rose by 1,650 or 1,525 meters in less than 500,000 years. Hugh Ross explains how this final major event in the collision of the Indian subcontinent with Asia created a “third pole” of ice covering 1 million square miles. This pole made global human civilization possible. The fact that the event occurred 7.6 million years ago means the resultant tectonic activity has subsided to a nonthreatening level for human civilization.
While today’s AIs still lack skills humans possess, advances continually push AI technology to accomplish things we thought only humans could do. Jeff Zweerink discusses how a recent studyindicates that AI may one day do science as well as humans. However, if we focus only on efficiency, we could miss the reason why we do science—that God designed us to learn how to relate to him and learn about him through his revelation in creation.
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
Terrestrial Temperature History Reveals Late Miocene Rapid Uplift of the Northern Tibetan Plateau
Flow-Driven Data Intensification to Accelerate Autonomous Inorganic Materials Discovery
This AI-Powered Lab Runs Itself—and Discovers New Materials 10x Faster
Representation of Locomotive Action Affordances in Human Behavior, Brains, and Deep Neural Networks
Affordances in the Brain: The Human Superpower AI Hasn’t Mastered
Researchers have reconstructed ancient lake temperatures in the Qaidam Basin (western China)to show that either 11.0 or 7.6 million years ago, the northern Tibetan Plateau rose by 1,650 or 1,525 meters in less than 500,000 years. Hugh Ross explains how this final major event in the collision of the Indian subcontinent with Asia created a “third pole” of ice covering 1 million square miles. This pole made global human civilization possible. The fact that the event occurred 7.6 million years ago means the resultant tectonic activity has subsided to a nonthreatening level for human civilization.
While today’s AIs still lack skills humans possess, advances continually push AI technology to accomplish things we thought only humans could do. Jeff Zweerink discusses how a recent studyindicates that AI may one day do science as well as humans. However, if we focus only on efficiency, we could miss the reason why we do science—that God designed us to learn how to relate to him and learn about him through his revelation in creation.
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
Terrestrial Temperature History Reveals Late Miocene Rapid Uplift of the Northern Tibetan Plateau
Flow-Driven Data Intensification to Accelerate Autonomous Inorganic Materials Discovery
This AI-Powered Lab Runs Itself—and Discovers New Materials 10x Faster
Representation of Locomotive Action Affordances in Human Behavior, Brains, and Deep Neural Networks
Affordances in the Brain: The Human Superpower AI Hasn’t Mastered
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