Artificial Intelligence; will it be the development to unlock the future or the thing that will destroy us all? With all of the hype, speculation, worry, and marketing, it can be overwhelming. In part 1 of our discussion on AI we’ll lay out a foundation and deal with the hopes and concerns of the next great evolution in our technology.----more---- Topics: The uses and misuses of the terminology of AI Narrow AI General AI Super Intelligence Stages, tools, and systems of AI: https://www.techwalla.com/articles/types-of-artificial-intelligence-systems Reactive Machines vs. Limited Memory AI and Theory of Mind AI and Self-Awareness Arend Hintze, Michigan State University: https://www.govtech.com/computing/Understanding-the-Four-Types-of-Artificial-Intelligence.html Data and Analytics Uses of AI in today’s world AI vs. Human Intelligence How AI Learns Is AI a threat? Coming Up: In Part II of our discussion we’ll address the state of AI in 2019 and what the church might have to say about the present challenges of AI and the future implications of the creation of a possibly sentient AI.   Facebook: fb.me/SGSTPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/SGSTPodcast   Intro and outro music: Cosmic Pluck from Vycroft. ( https://freesound.org/people/vykroft/ ) “For the Church Segment” transition music: Marketing from Skibka Music. ( https://freesound.org/people/SkibkaMusic/ )