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AI is learning at such a rapid rate that researchers are looking for more challenging benchmarks

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Important Takeaways:

  • AI now surpasses humans in almost all performance benchmarks
  • For people that haven’t been paying attention, AI has already beaten us in a frankly shocking number of significant benchmarks. In 2015, it surpassed us in image classification, then basic reading comprehension (2017), visual reasoning (2020), and natural language inference (2021).
  • AI is getting so clever, so fast, that many of the benchmarks used to this point are now obsolete. Indeed, researchers in this area are scrambling to develop new, more challenging benchmarks. To put it simply, AIs are getting so good at passing tests that now we need new tests – not to measure competence, but to highlight areas where humans and AIs are still different, and find where we still have an advantage.
  • The new AI Index report notes that in 2023, AI still struggled with complex cognitive tasks like advanced math problem-solving and visual commonsense reasoning. However, ‘struggled’ here might be misleading; it certainly doesn’t mean AI did badly.
  • Performance on MATH, a dataset of 12,500 challenging competition-level math problems, improved dramatically in the two years since its introduction. In 2021, AI systems could solve only 6.9% of problems. By contrast, in 2023, a GPT-4-based model solved 84.3%. The human baseline is 90%.
  • AI isn’t going anywhere, that’s for sure. The rapid rate of technical development seen throughout 2023, evident in this report, shows that AI will only keep evolving and closing the gap between humans and technology.

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Frank Amedia Calls for 3 Days of Fasting and Praying before Election

Lori Bakker, Jim Bakker in prayer at Morningside

Esther 4; 16 “Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.”

Our recent guest Frank Amedia, co-senior pastor of Touch Heaven Church in Canfield OH, is pleading along with Revival One Network (R1N)  to join them in a call for believers to fast and pray from SATURDAY EVENING UNTIL TUESDAY, NOV. 8, 10:00 P.M. (ELECTION DAY).  

Charisma magazine spoke with Amedia who stated that they wanted believers to recognize the magnitude of the election and what it will mean for the U.S.

“We are calling to do warfare against the spirit of Jezebel that has become exposed in our nation and in our leadership,” Amedia says. “We know the power and force behind the principalities that have oppressed our nation, that are diluting our Judeo-Christian principles, attacking the Christian faith and breaking our covenant with God. As one nation under God, it is time for the church to take its position as Esther. We are the bridge, as Esther was the bridge for her nation.”

Through circumstances beyond her control, Esther, a Jew, was placed in a position where she eventually became queen and was instrumental in saving her people from a massacre. Haman, a servant of King Ahasuerus, plotted to destroy the Jews, but God intervened through Esther.

“It has been said that one can set 1,000 to flight and two 10,000,” Amedia says. “If so, then tens of thousands of spiritual warriors in agreement is a force of power that cannot be resisted. If we can get 100,000 people fasting and praying, there would be so many zeros behind the number that you couldn’t put a name to it. It would be incomprehensible.”

Beginning Saturday evening Amedia and Revival One Network ask you to do the following:  

If you can abstain from food and drink, or food, or limit your intakes, then do so as you are able. Please take your health into consideration and be wise during your fast.

As best you can in your schedule, set aside quality time for prayer and intercession.

Prepare yourself with repentance, soul searching and reflection.

Stay in tune with the Holy Spirit. Pray with the Spirit and with understanding

Remain in a state of readiness to hear from the Lord and to obey His lead. Let us humble ourselves and call upon the Lord and ask Him to heal our nation (2 chronicles 7:14)

Command the principality of Jezebel, with all of its host of dark angels and demons, to be exposed, judged, dethroned, cast down and destroyed.   Rev. 2: 22-23

Pray for deliverance, redemption, reformation, and restoration for our nation from the diabolical conspiracies and plots to turn us away from God. (Esther)

Pray for the elimination of abortion.

We pray that you receive tremendous supernatural blessings and favor also during this period of fasting and prayer as you have committed yourself to the Word of the Lord.