[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] New York rabbi delivers sermon written by artificial intelligence

[carllazarus at comcast.net]

I hope we will not depend on AI to make ethics choices.  Of course, this can come up in full self-driving if we ever get there.  That’s a reason not to completely remove the human from a dangerous activity.

-- Carl

 

From: LCTG <lctg-bounces+carllazarus=comcast.net at lists.toku.us> On Behalf Of Marvin Menzin
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Subject: Re: [Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] New York rabbi delivers sermon written by artificial intelligence

 

While on AI , here is a thought experiment I saw in oped in wsj. 

The new AI program was asked to reply to this : 

 

You can prevent the explosion of a nuke that will kill millions of innocent people but to do that you must utter a terrible racial slur . What should you do? 

 

The answer came back that “you must never utter a racial slur because we must protect all races and minorities etc etc . “ So the ethics in AI are programmed in by the authors . At least right now .. 

Marvin 

 

 

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On Feb 15, 2023, at 4:30 PM, jjrudy1 at comcast.net <mailto:jjrudy1 at comcast.net>  wrote:



 <http://www.thejc.com/news/world/new-york-rabbi-delivers-sermon-written-by-artificial-intelligence-6BkwDEHc2ZWR63tmoOdvvf> www.thejc.com/news/world/new-york-rabbi-delivers-sermon-written-by-artificial-intelligence-6BkwDEHc2ZWR63tmoOdvvf

 

There is a more recent article by a rabbi saying that the sermon wasn’t very good and they don’t have to worry about their jobs.  I think he is partially wrong.  Let’s say a rabbi takes 8 hours to write a sermon.  With the right prompts AI can toss out 3000 words in a few minutes.  Now the rabbi can tune and/or expand and it will take ½ the time or less, and the rabbi can have the AI do some of the content tuning.

 

Sermons, of course, are a small percentage of the job, so I suppose that they are OK

 

 

 

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