Nadene Goldfoot
Tech leaders in the AI industry are Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak and others. They are ALL worried about AI getting out of control. They are calling for a major expansion of government oversight over AI. What is Artificial Intelligence, anyway? Artificial intelligence is intelligence demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence of humans and other animals. Example tasks in which this is done include speech recognition, computer vision, translation between languages, as well as other mappings of inputs.
AI applications include advanced web search engines (e.g., Google Search), recommendation systems (used by YouTube, Amazon, and Netflix), understanding human speech (such as Siri and Alexa), self-driving cars (e.g., Waymo), generative or creative tools (ChatGPT and AI art), automated decision-making, and competing at the highest level in strategic game systems (such as chess and Go).
Early researchers developed algorithms that imitated step-by-step reasoning that humans use when they solve puzzles or make logical deductions. By the late 1980s and 1990s, AI research had developed methods for dealing with uncertain or incomplete information, employing concepts from probability and economics.
Many of these algorithms proved to be insufficient for solving large reasoning problems because they experienced a "combinatorial explosion": they became exponentially slower as the problems grew larger. Even humans rarely use the step-by-step deduction that early AI research could model. They solve most of their problems using fast, intuitive judgments.
What chances does government have with their own intelligence services to gain a hand over AI, the most profound intelligence of all today? Elon Musk, etc, want a 6 month pause in the work on the AI systems. "AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity," the letter said."
Israel is known for its technological innovation and flourishing high-tech ecosystem; however, it is at risk of falling “far, far behind” other countries in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) due to ongoing political instability, industry experts have warned.
Unfortunately, the political instability that has roiled Israel – which has seen five elections in four years – means that that plan has yet to receive funding from the national budget despite being submitted in June 2019. Ben-Israel told The Media Line that the goal of the program is to make Israel one of the five leading countries in the world in AI and that it is now in the hands of the new government to take appropriate action.
Shaul Solomon of Los Angeles is an orthodox Jew with Chabad who is involved in AI. He did his bachelors in Israel, in an orthodox men-only Jerusalem College of Technology, studying computer science, cyber security and Torah. The first time he even heard about AI was a year after he finished his degree from Sam Harris’ podcast discussing panpsychism and decided to take a Coursera class where he learned the fundamental elements of neural networks (gradient descent, back-propagation, etc.) Soon after he left religion and spent a year traveling, ending up in New York with no budget. To save some money for his future trips he began working as program and administrative director at a Chabad Center in New Jersey, where his uncle was the rabbi. Being less of a believer, he continued to think about artificial intelligence, coding and computer science but it was still unclear what to do next.
“We want science to be as objective as possible and religion as subjective as possible; meaningful, contextual and personal. I believe AI can help us with both, but we don’t want to create a new religion, rather a “guru” who helps us get to where we need to be. AI is not a black box in which you give data and get solutions, but it’s more of a tool to make your own discoveries.
As such, there is a growing trend of ‘spiritual yet non-religious’ individuals who reject the dogmatic elements of their previous faith, yet are still proponents of liberal values, equal rights, and a holistic approach to balanced living. They do, however, still find value in analyzing how Jesus/Moses/Buddha lived, for instance. I can very much relate to this idea, growing up reading all those religious texts.
I do reject the dogma, but it’s undeniable that all the stories I’ve read have perennial value. I’d like to base my ideas on different aspects of different religions.
Spirituality is not difficult in the tech world at all; it’s simply not talked about, which is upsetting, but also understandable. You can discuss it but you can’t quantify it. If you can’t optimize it, how do you improve it? Technology is there to help us process things faster, approach things on a bigger scale, but whether we talk about AI or religion, the human is always the one interpreting.
We therefore need a human-centric view of both AI and spirituality. My idea is to create an AI that is able to take something from any religion or piece of art and put everything together into a new coherent story, and the responsibility is on the person reading it to interpret it however they want to in the end.”
Elon Reeve Musk born June 28, 1971) is a business magnate and investor. He is the founder, CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; owner and CEO of Twitter, Inc.;
Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, and briefly attended at the University of Pretoria before moving to Canada at age 18, acquiring citizenship through his Canadian-born mother. Two years later, he matriculated at Queen's University and transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he received bachelor's degrees in economics and physics.In 1995, he was accepted to a PhD program in materials science at Stanford University. However, Musk decided to join the Internet boom, instead dropping out two days after being accepted and applied for a job at Netscape, to which he reportedly never received a response.
Antisemitic posts on Twitter have dramatically spiked in the weeks since Elon Musk acquired the social media platform, researchers claimed hours after Kanye West was suspended for tweeting an image of a swastika inside a Star of David. Musk was not supportive of Kanye West's comments.
Steve Wozniak was born August 11, 1950 in San Jose, California. He is an American technology entrepreneur, electronics engineer, computer programmer, philanthropist, and inventor. In 1976, he co-founded Apple Computer with business partner Steve Jobs, which later became the world's largest technology company by revenue and the largest company in the world by market capitalization. Personal computers are his thing.
He was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple; the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar; a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. He is widely recognized as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with his early business partner and fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. He died at age 56. In October 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with cancer. In mid-2004, he announced to his employees that he had a cancerous tumor in his pancreas. The prognosis for pancreatic cancer is usually very poor; Jobs stated that he had a rare, much less aggressive type, known as islet cell neuroendocrine tumor.
Strangely, I started writing this article to leave and pick up groceries. When I came back and turned on the View, it's first topic of the day was Artificial Intelligence. I about dropped my groceries! What kind of intelligence is going on, here?
Resource:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Muskttps://medium.com/y-data-stories/judaism-and-ai-a-surreal-story-of-an-orthodox-jew-becoming-a-data-scientist-a88c43b5a75d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
You tube with Shaul Solomon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__k4rfmz0ow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
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