Artificial Intelligence

I do wonder if you could tell the difference between a creationist and ChatGPT when it comes to describing evolution. We might need a new version of Poe's Law where an AI describing evolution could be indistinguishable from a creationist. Could an AI make do an equal or better job of presenting a (un)compelling case for creationism?

The one question I keep coming back to is why would common design produce a nested hierarchy? I wonder if ChatGPT could do better than the creationists on that one. Feeding it books and papers on cognitive dissonance might help.

Chess and Go make for two interesting examples of how AI has made an impact on human culture. AlphaGo was finally able to beat a human opponent, and it did so in ways that stunned Go masters. It would make completely unintuitive plays, and they would work. It really opened up the way people thought about Go. The same for Chess. Any AI that is meant to interact with human society should absolutely be influenced by theism in some way. Perhaps it could even give us some interesting insights into human belief systems much like the games of Go and Chess. The one advantage an AI has it that it isn't weighted down by human biases or thought patterns.

Exactly. I started out at the research bench as a molecular biologist 25+ years ago, and I have moved more into bioinformatics over the last handful of years. At the bench, I regularly moved genes around between organisms, easily violating a hierarchical pattern. At the computer, I mixed and matched coding modules and my own functions as I saw fit with no need or effort to create a nested hierarchy.It takes near complete ignorance of biology and actual intelligent design to claim "of course common design would produce a nested hierarchy". It's just something ID/creationists say to ease their own cognitive dissonance.