Could AI eventually build god?

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• Define "god"
  by JohnFen
• The plateau of intelligence. And now you could ask me to define intelligence and I would stick with the common definition:

  Intelligence is the mental capacity to learn, understand, reason, and solve new problems.

  by olirex99
• You might enjoy reading the Hyperion Cantos which delves into this idea :)
  by softwaredoug
• Thanks for the suggestion!
  by olirex99
• If you interpret God as the source and giver of money, it already is.

  My definition is a bit more philosophical.

  by k310
• If experience is any indication, some people would worship it regardless if it was artificial or not.

  Some seem to already be doing so, especially the ones whose prayers are being answered :)

  by fuzzfactor
• Also the definition of artificial will not make sense at all at a certain point. If for example AGI builds a more intelligent species, could we define it “artificial”?
  by olirex99
• If you mean an extremely smart AI which can do anything then no. By Far AI can only do things it was trained on. They can't have any "intuition" for anything (related to science and stuff) which is REQUIRED if you want to create "God"
  by KinetiNode
• Why could it not have intuition?
  by Gud
• AI can do things it wasn't trained on and has intuition, given the mathematic proofs frontier models have created.

  Claiming that AI can only reproduce a subset of its training data is 2022-level and a tired, outdated claim.

  by atleastoptimal
• not god level but something like in upcoming time now we have to work more how should be limit this we have to work more on the validation part now
  by thecrazyufo
• No matter how smart AI gets, it's still a product of the physical universe and thus bound to physical laws and limits. It cannot be infinitely intelligent, it cannot be all-powerful, it cannot transcend physical reality. It cannot be considered a god in any sense that humanity has ever defined such a being.

  All AI can ever be, and should ever be considered to be, is really smart software. A tool. A thing that serves humans. Not a god, which by definition is a being that humans serve.

  by krapp
• I define God as the plateau of intelligence. You maybe haven’t understood my question, but I am asking we are living in a more brother loop in which less intelligent species build more intelligent species. If the answer is yes, would this mean that AI species will build at a certain point (self-improving) another kind of species?

  PS: I know that I use species improperly.

  by olirex99