Bible Verses of the Day

1 Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. 2 It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep. [Psalm 127:1-2, ESV]

What's in this week's issue?

• ✝️ Christians shouldn’t fear AI

• 🤖 The AI revolution is coming to robots: how will it change them?

• ⛅️ Easy Cloud News

• 📰 AI News

• 🧰 AI Tools

We live in a generation of “intelligences”—emotional intelligence, creative intelligence, and, more recently, “artificial” intelligence. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a broad field of study within computer science, designing systems that think and act like humans—from playing games to driving vehicles.

When Christians view AI solely as a tool, we can consider it the way Christians have historically responded to technological development: tools are gifts from God, granted under common grace, to be used for good and wise purposes.

We therefore must ask, Have we gone too far with AI technology? Some think so. They suggest AI isn’t merely a tool but an example of the creature (us) trying to re-create a divine image apart from God’s ordained means of procreation—thereby usurping God’s unique authority as Creator. Others remain excited to see how far we can develop and deploy these new technologies to promote human flourishing.

For a generation of scientists raised watching Star Wars, there’s a disappointing lack of C-3PO-like droids wandering around our cities and homes. Where are the humanoid robots fueled with common sense that can help around the house and workplace?

Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) might be set to fill that hole. “I wouldn’t be surprised if we are the last generation for which those sci-fi scenes are not a reality,” says Alexander Khazatsky, a machine-learning and robotics researcher at Stanford University in California.

From OpenAI to Google DeepMind, almost every big technology firm with AI expertise is now working on bringing the versatile learning algorithms that power chatbots, known as foundation models, to robotics.

“We believe we are at the point of a step change in robotics,” says Gerard Andrews, a marketing manager focused on robotics at technology company Nvidia in Santa Clara, California, which in March launched a general-purpose AI model designed for humanoid robots.

Easy Cloud News

• 🌤️ Easy Cloud Solutions: State Department Unlocks $18.2M for Generative AI: Pioneering Technological Transformation (link)

• ⛪️ Easy Cloud AI: Beluga: Accurate Sermon Transcription Service to Reach Wider Audiences (link)

Listen or read the following transcript as Eric Alexander emphasizes Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman. Alexander highlights the themes of spiritual thirst, true worship, and evangelism.

The following unedited transcript is provided by Beluga AI.

AI News

• 🔢 AI models have favorite numbers, because they think they’re people (link)

• 🤔 Using memes, social media users have become red teams for half-baked AI features (link)

• 🦇 Banish Google’s batty AI from searches with the ‘udm=14’ trick (link)

• 🌏️ Women in AI: Chinasa T. Okolo researches AI’s impact on the Global South (link)

• 📱 Top AI tablets: iPad Pro with M4 versus Microsoft's new Surface Pro (link)

AI Tools

• 🤓 Socrates: Choose documents, ask questions and get answers with sources included (link)

• 🗣️ Whisper: The fun and effective way to prepare for an interview (link)

• 🐋 Beluga: Christian sermon and lecture transcripts, translations and more (link)

• 🪄 MagicForm: Supercharge your sales funnel with a 24/7 AI that qualifies, converts, and follows up with leads (link)

• 🙋 Wegic: The AI web designer and developer by your side (link)