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AMAZON ECHO: We Are All Being Groomed To Interact With Robot ‘Virtual Assistants’ Using AI

Amazon’s Echo has made tangible the promise of an artificially intelligent personal virtual assistant in every home.

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Amazon’s Echo has made tangible the promise of an artificially intelligent personal virtual assistant in every home.

“And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” Revelation 13:15 (KJV)

“But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” Daniel 12:4 (KJV)

EDITOR’S NOTE: It is amazing to me that, right here and now, we are living during the time of the greatest explosion of knowledge and technological advancement in human history. Revelation tells us that, in the time of Jacob’s trouble, the False Prophet makes an image of the Beast and it comes alive. So right now what we are seeing is the entire civilized world being groomed to talk with ‘virtual assistants’ like Alexa from Amazon, Cortana from Microsoft, Siri from Apple, and the list goes on and on. The future is happening now, exactly like King James Bible said it would be. 

Those who own the voice-activated gadget, known colloquially as Alexa, after its female interlocutor, are prone to proselytizing “her” charms, applauding Alexa’s ability to call an Uber, order pizza or check a 10th-grader’s math homework. The company says more than 5,000 people a day profess their love for Alexa.

On the other hand, Alexa devotees also know that unless you speak to her very  clearly . . . and . . . slowly, she’s likely to say: Sorry, I don’t have the answer to that question. “I love her. I hate her, I love her,” one customer wrote on Amazon’s website, while still awarding Alexa five stars.  “You will very quickly learn how to talk to her in a way that she will understand and it’s not unlike speaking to a small frustrating toddler.”

Voice recognition has come a long way in the past few years. But it’s still not good enough to popularize the technology for everyday use and usher in a new era of human-machine interaction, allowing us to talk with all our gadgets—cars, washing machines, televisions. Despite advances in speech recognition, most people continue to swipe, tap and click. And probably will for the foreseeable future.

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What’s holding back progress? Partly the artificial intelligence that powers the technology has room to improve. There’s also a serious deficit of data—specifically audio of human voices, speaking in multiple languages, accents and dialects in often noisy circumstances that can defeat the code.

So Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and China’s Baidu have embarked on a world-wide hunt for terabytes of human speech. Microsoft has set up mock apartments in cities around the globe to record volunteers speaking in a home setting. Every hour, Amazon uploads Alexa queries to a vast digital warehouse. Baidu is busily collecting every dialect in China. Then they take all that data and use it to teach their computers how to parse, understand and respond to commands and queries.

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The challenge is finding a way to capture natural, real-world conversations. Even 95 percent accuracy isn’t enough, says Adam Coates, who runs Baidu’s artificial intelligence lab in Sunnyvale, California. “Our goal is to push the error rate down to 1 percent,” he says.  “That’s where you can really trust the device to understand what you’re saying, and that will be transformative.”

Not so long ago, voice recognition was comically rudimentary. An early version of Microsoft’s technology running in Windows transcribed “mom” as “aunt” during a 2006 demo before an auditorium of analysts and investors. When Apple debuted Siri five years back, the personal assistant’s gaffes were widely mocked because it, too, routinely spat out incorrect results or didn’t hear the question correctly. When asked if Gillian Anderson is British, Siri provided a list of English restaurants. Now Microsoft says its speech engine makes the same number or fewer errors than professional transcribers, Siri is winning grudging respect, and Alexa has given us a tantalizing glimpse of the future.

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Much of that progress owes a debt to the magic of neural networks, a form of artificial intelligence based loosely on the architecture of the human brain. Neural networks learn without being explicitly programmed but generally require an enormous breadth and diversity of data. The more a speech recognition engine consumes, the better it gets at understanding different voices and the closer it gets to the eventual goal of having a natural conversation in many languages and situations.

Hence the global scramble to capture a multitude of voices. “The more data we shove in our systems the better it performs,” says Andrew Ng, Baidu’s chief scientist. “This is why speech is such a capital-intensive exercise; not a lot of organizations have this much data.”

When the industry began working seriously on voice recognition in the 1990s, companies like Microsoft relied on publicly available data from research institutes such as the Linguistics Data Consortium, a storehouse of voice and text data founded in 1992 with backing from the U.S. government and located at the University of Pennsylvania. Then tech companies started collecting their own voice data, some of it garnered from volunteers who came in to read and be recorded. Now, with the popularity of speech-controlled software gaining ground, they harvest much of the data from their own products and services.

When you tell your phone to search for something, play a song or guide you to a destination, chances are a company is recording it. (Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon emphasize that they anonymize user data to protect customer privacy.) When you ask Alexa what the weather is or the latest football score, the gadget uses the queries to improve its understanding of natural language (although “she” isn’t listening to your conversations unless you say her name). “By design, Alexa gets smarter as you use her,” says Nikko Strom, senior principal scientist for the program. source

 

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The Department Of War Announced Today The United States Military Will Undergo A Full Integration Of Google Gemini Agentic AI To Its Palantir Platform

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Palantir is already the dominant force in US military software and it will now be augmented by the addition of Google Gemini Agentic AI as an autonomous decision maker

As the Department of War rolls out Google’s Gemini AI across the U.S. military through GenAI.mil, another player stands quietly in the background — but its influence is enormous. That company is Palantir Technologies, the most military-embedded AI and data-fusion firm in the world.

“And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” Revelation 13:15 (KJB)

A few months ago, we told you all about Memetic Warfare, something that most people had not heard of before. Today I want to add another little nugget to your knowledge base, because very soon you will be hearing this everywhere. Agentic AI. It’s AI that doesn’t just respond to your commands, it gives them to you. Scary stuff, to say the least. The Antichrist kingdom will not be run on typewriters, filing cabinets and fax machines. It will be run on autonomous agentic AI, global networks, biometric systems, and militarized enforcement technologies. Gemini Agentic AI is not used the way you use WordPress or Excel, this is not your father’s Oldsmobile, as the old marketing campaign goes. This is a whole new day.

Agentic AI is being trained to:

  • Evaluate situations
  • Predict outcomes
  • Execute tasks
  • Adapt over time
  • This is “agentic AI.”
  • An AI that acts.
  • An AI that decides.
  • An AI that will eventually be allowed to operate without human approval in order to remain “faster than adversaries.”

When that happens, you have crossed the line into autonomous warfare — and there will be no going back. Bible prophecy has two sides to it, on one hand it involves the opening of doors to bring about its fulfillment. On the other hand, it closes those same doors after you’ve walked through them. You might want to think about that for a year or two.

While Google provides the thinking engine, Palantir provides the eyes, ears, and nervous system to feed it. Together, they form a structure almost tailor-made for the end-times surveillance and enforcement systems foreseen in the King James Bible. Palantir’s entire business is built on the idea that every data point — financial, personal, military, biological, social, digital — can be ingested into one fused system and analyzed instantly by artificial intelligence.

This is not theoretical, this is who Palantir already sells to:

  • The U.S. Army
  • Special Operations Command
  • Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Intelligence agencies
  • Police departments
  • NATO partners
  • Foreign governments

Their flagship platforms, Gotham, Foundry, and the new Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), allow governments to:

  • Track people
  • Predict behavior
  • Identify patterns across massive datasets
  • Monitor communications
  • Analyze movement
  • Issue alerts and automated decisions

This is the digital backbone of a modern surveillance regime. The world has never seen anything like this, but Bible believers sure have, in the pages of Scripture. We are watching the infrastructure of the Antichrist kingdom coming into place piece by piece, contract by contract, AI model by AI model. Time is short. The Church’s departure is imminent. TO THE FIGHT!!!

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Donald Trump Signs Executive Order To Launch Artificial Intelligence Initiative Called ‘The Genesis Mission’ Creating A Digital Tower Of Babel

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President Trump has launched The Genesis Mission to create an AI super-creature that sounds and looks like a digital Tower of Babel in advance of the Mark of the Beast

When President Donald J. Trump stood behind the Resolute Desk and signed the executive order launching what his administration calls The Genesis Mission, the world watched a seemingly routine announcement about science, technology, and competitiveness. But those paying attention — those who “have ears to hear” — saw something far more profound. Something prophetic. Something that looks less like an economic stimulus package and more like the blueprint for a digital Tower of Babel in the closing moments before the catching away of the Church.

“And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” Genesis 11:4 (KJB)

The Genesis Mission is being heralded as the largest mobilization of American scientific resources since the moon landing. In reality, it appears to be the most comprehensive attempt yet to fuse artificial intelligence, federal datasets, national laboratory supercomputers, and automated robotic experimentation into a single, unified system of knowledge and control. A system capable of compressing scientific discovery — what once took years — into mere hours. A system whose goals sound eerily similar to the global technological regime prophesied to rise in the time of Jacob’s trouble.

“This order launches the “Genesis Mission” as a dedicated, coordinated national effort to unleash a new age of AI‑accelerated innovation and discovery that can solve the most challenging problems of this century.” read the whole order

The mission’s stated purpose is to accelerate discovery across biology, nuclear fusion, quantum systems, climate modeling, materials science, and more. In other words — to take the raw building blocks of God’s creation and place them under the predictive authority of artificially intelligent systems capable of designing, simulating, and executing scientific experiments without human oversight.

If that doesn’t sound like man attempting to rewrite the rules of creation, nothing does.

This is not merely research. This is re-creation — man attempting to simulate, automate, and accelerate the mechanisms of life and nature. It is scientific ambition dressed up as innovation, but it is spiritually identical to the rebellion that first appeared in Eden and climaxed at Babel.

The Abraham Accords, the Genesis Mission, is anyone else seeing the same pattern that we’re seeing?

The Genesis Mission Is A Digital Nervous System For Federal Power

For the first time in history, the U.S. government is attempting to unify:

  • all federal scientific datasets
  • all national laboratory supercomputers
  • all major AI models
  • all simulation environments
  • all robotic experiment platforms…into one coordinated AI-driven infrastructure.

This creature will be a living system with:

  • nerves (data pipelines),
  • organs (labs and supercomputers),
  • brain (federal AI models),
  • hands (robotic labs),
  • eyes (sensors and datasets).

This isn’t a program. It’s the creation of a national digital organism — a living, thinking, learning system whose purpose is to accelerate discovery, prediction, and control. If you’ve ever read Revelation, then you know what’s going on.

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” Revelation 13:15 (KJB)

A Technological Run-up To The Time Of Jacob’s Trouble

The Bible tells us that before the Day of the Lord:

  • knowledge shall be increased (Dan. 12:4)
  • nations will clamor for power (Matt. 24:7)
  • deception and signs will multiply (2 Thess. 2:9)
  • a global system of control will emerge (Rev. 13)

How do you generate the technological scaffolding for such a system? You build something like the Genesis Mission. Of course, it will take all the ‘usual suspects’ like Palantir, Blackrock, DARPA, Bill Gates, Oracle, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and all the rest of the tech titans to make this a reality. But isn’t that the whole point and purpose behind Stargate?

  • Faster discovery.
  • Centralized systems.
  • Integrated data.
  • Autonomous decision-making.
  • National mobilization.
  • Global potential.

For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.” Revelation 17:17 (KJB)

Pieces falling into place, one executive order at a time. As we often remind our readers at NTEB: prophecy does not require the willing participation of world leaders. God uses kings, presidents, nations, armies — and yes, technologies — to move history toward its appointed end. Revelation 17:17 says that God will put it into their hearts to fulfill His will, and that’s exactly what we see taking place right now.

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But whatever you do, don’t do nothing. Time is short and we need your help right now. The Lord has given us an open door with a tremendous ‘course’ for us to fulfill that will create an excellent experience at the Judgement Seat of Christ. Please pray for our efforts, and if the Lord leads you to donate, be as generous as possible. The war is REAL, the battle HOT and the time is SHORTTO THE FIGHT!!!

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An Outage On Amazon Web Services Literally Took Half The Internet Down Today Showing You How Open To Attack Our One World Online System Really Is

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Amazon Web Services, a cloud computing service that powers much of the infrastructure behind millions of websites went down today, and here’s why that should really bother you

By now you know that today’s Prophecy News Podcast did not happen because of the massive outage this morning from Amazon Web Services, a cloud computing company that controls about half of the world’s internet traffic. They are still trying to determine if it was a cyberattack or a system-wide failure, but either way it shows one, big, fat and scary fact. If you want to control the world, all you need to do is to control the internet, and you’ll have it. That’s the memo.

“Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.” 2 Corinthians 2:11 (KJB)

We use Amazon Web Services as the core of our web traffic, and we count on it to deliver the millions of hits we get every month in a timely and efficient manner. But we are ‘small potatoes’ compared to large commercial sites, and government sites. Sites that control our national defense and homeland security. Let me give you something to consider that’ll keep you up at night.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become a major power player inside the U.S. federal government, embedding its cloud infrastructure deep within the operations of key departments and defense agencies. Through massive contracts such as the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) program—valued at up to $9 billion across multiple vendors—and a newly forged $1 billion “OneGov” agreement with the General Services Administration (GSA), AWS now fuels the digital backbone of federal data, artificial intelligence, and military operations. Its dedicated GovCloud regions, designed to meet strict FedRAMP and DoD SRG security standards, serve agencies ranging from the Department of Defense to the U.S. Army and a host of civilian federal offices. What began as a commercial cloud venture has evolved into a strategic infrastructure partner for Washington, giving AWS unprecedented reach into the very systems that manage national defense, intelligence, and the day-to-day machinery of the American government.

Today millions like us at NTEB are inconvenienced with not being able to bring our regular content because of the outage at AWS, but Lord willing we’ll all be back up soon. But imagine what will happen when the internet is taken over and taken down because bad actors are staging a coup against the government, seizing control of the military and defense sites. Imagine what life will be like in that moment. It’s coming.

‘Half the internet’ goes down after Amazon cloud outage leaving millions

FROM THE DAILY MAIL UK: The outage has also affected popular Amazon services, including Amazon.com, Amazon Alexa, Ring and Amazon Prime Video. The issues began shortly after 8am BST (3am ET), according to DownDetector, with more than 6,000 reports from affected US customers.

Another 1,600 users and counting are affected in the UK, according to DownDetector, a site that monitors internet outages.

Jake Moore, tech expert and security advisor at ESET, thinks the huge outage is likely due to an ‘internal error’ at Amazon, but said we can’t rule out a cyberattack at this stage.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, he said: ‘While a cyberattack can’t be ruled out until AWS releases its full post-incident report, there’s no current evidence of hacking, data breaches or coordinated attacks.’

DownDetector gets network status updates from social media platforms, reports submitted to its website and other sources around the web. It ‘only reports an incident when the number of problem reports is significantly higher than the typical volume for that time of day’.

According to the site, the issue stems from problems at Amazon’s massive data center site in Northern Virginia (us-east-1), a critical hub for the global internet. In all, 75 per cent of the reported problems are coming from us-east-1, while the remainder are coming from two other US sites. READ MORE

Amazon Web Services takes down the internet

Amazon Web Services has now issued a further update, stating in a post at 10:29 a.m. ET that it is once again experiencing network connectivity issues in the US.

Now The End Begins is your front line defense against the rising tide of darkness in the last Days before the Rapture of the Church

When you contribute to this fundraising effort, you are helping us to do what the Lord called us to do. The money you send in goes primarily to the overall daily operations of this site. When people ask for Bibles, we send them out at no charge. When people write in and say how much they would like gospel tracts but cannot afford them, we send them a box at no cost to them for either the tracts or the shipping, no matter where they are in the world. We have a Gospel Billboard program. We are now broadcasting Bible studies, Podcasts and a Sunday Service 5 times a week, thanks to your generous donations. All this is possible because YOU pray for us, YOU support us, and YOU give so we can continue growing.

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But whatever you do, don’t do nothing. Time is short and we need your help right now. The Lord has given us an open door with a tremendous ‘course’ for us to fulfill that will create an excellent experience at the Judgement Seat of Christ. Please pray for our efforts, and if the Lord leads you to donate, be as generous as possible. The war is REAL, the battle HOT and the time is SHORTTO THE FIGHT!!!

“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;” Titus 2:13 (KJB)

“Thank you very much!” – Geoffrey, editor-in-chief, NTEB

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