How to become a God, in 3 simple steps (absent faith/belief):

[ProgrammingGodJordan]

NOTE [1]: No opinion, faith, emotion, nor bias was used in the facing sequence.
NOTE [2]: I am of course atheistic. (I have not any beliefs).
NOTE [3]: One needn’t belief/certainty to [OBSERVE] PROBABILITIES. [Such as the probabilities/statistics observed herein]



(A) ~ Introduction

Mankind (particularly AI researchers/programmers....) is becoming God. (God is properly definable as any likely non-omniscient entity, with the ability to generate non trivial intelligence).

RELEVANT FACTS:

['i'] Of the total estimated 10^+16 synaptic operations in the brain, mankind has already generated efficient programmable models, that compute 10^14 synaptic operations per second.

['ii'] Brain based models have already exceeded/equalled man on individual non-trivial/cognitive tasks/task groups, ranging from language translation to disease diagnosis.

['iii'] Brain based models have entered more cognitive fields, as computational parallelism enhanced. [ie increased in-organic synaptic operations per second]

[iv] Moore’s Law has garnered technological enhancement for 50 years. {Shall Moore’s Law fail, thereafter, any rate of increase, shall likely engender that brain based models achieve human brain cycles [iii], that shall likely [in profound range] garner human cognitive task proficiency.}



(B) ~ Instructions [tri-step process]

ALBEIT, here is how one may  trivially become a God, in 3 simple steps:

1) Purge all beliefs. (for beliefs are non-necessary)

2) Derive at worse case, a 4-LINE mathematical understanding of quantum mechanics, eg, QUANTUM COMPUTING: https://www.quora.com/How-does-quantum-c...-Bennett-9 

3) Study machine learning (deep learning, reinforcement learning etc), utilizing/integrating step (2); subsequently, implementing/encoding some neural basis.

[I_am_not_mafia]

Mankind (particularly AI researchers/programmers....) is becoming God.

Oooh I like it.

Bow down to me fools lest I smite thee with my abstract mathematical concepts!

(When can I start shooting electricity from my fingertips?)

[I_am_not_mafia]

3) Study machine learning (deep learning, reinforcement learning etc), utilizing/integrating step (2); subsequently, implement/encode some neural basis.

Oh bollocks. I've given up using neural networks due to their lack of explanatory power and have started using dynamical systems.

Does this I mean I get demoted to demi-god?

[Excited Penguin]

Mathilda is so funny! 

[Astreja]

I skipped all the steps and unilaterally declared Myself to be a goddess.  Conveniently I chose magisteria that don't actually need divine intervention:  The vernal equinox, punctuation, chocolate, and Random Equipment Malfunctions.

I remain agnostic of My own divinity, however.  

[Excited Penguin]

I skipped all the steps and unilaterally declared Myself to be a goddess.  Conveniently I chose magisteria that don't actually need divine intervention:  The vernal equinox, punctuation, chocolate, and Random Equipment Malfunctions.

I remain agnostic of My own divinity, however.  

Chocolate is key.

[account_inactive]

[ProgrammingGodJordan]

3) Study machine learning (deep learning, reinforcement learning etc), utilizing/integrating step (2); subsequently, implement/encode some neural basis.

Oh bollocks. I've given up using neural networks due to their lack of explanatory power and have started using dynamical systems.

Does this I mean I get demoted to demi-god?

('A')

Deepmind's alpha go player, the planet's strongest artificial intelligence, is an initial GENERAL approximation of non-trivial artificial intelligence. Deep Neural Networks are an integral component of such, composing the models' memory, of simulated synapses/neurons.


('B')

Deep Neural Networks, are of the largest expression/depth, as observed in (A); as expressed via Geoffrey Hinton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAu3jQWaN6E


('C')

Conclusion: Mathilda is God-bound, however less-likely so, in comparison to researchers that utilize Deep Neural Networks.

POST SCRIPTUM:
Neural Networks are dynamic, error minimization systems, though it is observable that you express of a separate class of dynamic construct.

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I skipped all the steps and unilaterally declared Myself to be a goddess.  Conveniently I chose magisteria that don't actually need divine intervention:  The vernal equinox, punctuation, chocolate, and Random Equipment Malfunctions.

I remain agnostic of My own divinity, however.  

It appears, you have failed to reduce the passage... (for said passage is absent emotional bias/belief/opinion)

[Cyberman]

What is it about this time of year that brings out all the fucking weirdos?

[brewer]

Who let the fish out of his pond?