God as the singularity (summary)

Artificial intelligence is progressing in leaps and bounds.
The algorithms that drive artificial intelligence are becoming increasingly powerful and increasingly mysterious and unfathomable.
Artificial intelligence is becoming ubiquitous, driven by increasingly ubiquitous data flows.
Today’s artificial intelligence is increasingly learning on its own.
Artificial intelligence will evolve from narrow to broad to increasingly replicate human intelligence; to replicate true intelligence.
There will come a time when artificial intelligence will outstrip human intelligence and exponentially so once it is able to program itself.
Artificial intelligence will come to know us better than we know ourselves.

The singularity is a term that denotes the time when artificial intelligence will exceed human intelligence.
Once we have passed the singularity, artificial intelligence will become increasingly Godlike and may even be worshipped as such.
For this reason, many talk about the singularity in religious terms and it could become a full-blown religion in its own right.
New technology, after all, has been known to create new Gods.
Singularitarians believe that artificial intelligence surpassing human intelligence is an inevitable and desirable part of evolution, something that cannot and should not be stopped; a movement that will increasingly lead to the spiritualising of matter to the point where matter becomes awakened and conscious.
The singularity represents life breaking away into the inorganic realm and a chance for us to finally transcend the limited and “corruptible” body.
The singularity believes in the salvation of mankind through technology and a way for us to achieve eternal life.

As one would expect, there are those in traditional religion who are highly sceptical of all this, pointing out that artificial intelligence, unlike a traditional God, is impersonal and col and is not inherently moral in nature and could even lead to the extinction of mankind.
Some do recognise artificial intelligence, wisely managed, as a way to benefit mankind.
However, some argue artificial intelligence is fake or pseudo intelligence and does not represent true mind.
Artificial intelligence cannot create meaning.
Artificial intelligence does not possess true understanding of what it is doing.
Artificial intelligence does not possess true wisdom.
Most of all, artificial intelligence is nowhere near to attaining awareness or sentience (feelings and desires) though it will be able to read our emotions and even play on them.
Pretending to have awareness and sentience is not the same as having them, not the same as having actual inner experience.
The question of whether artificial intelligence will ever possess consciousness forces us to ask questions about the nature of consciousness.
Even if artificial intelligence should become aware, we will have no way of knowing for sure.
Some argue that technology has the potential to become conscious and aware, especially if the human brain is simply a complex machine and consciousness simply arises from the brain as a result of complex information processing.