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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-- Carl<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> LCTG <lctg-bounces+carllazarus=comcast.net@lists.toku.us> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Marvin Menzin<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 15, 2023 4:41 PM<br><b>To:</b> jjrudy1@comcast.net<br><b>Cc:</b> Lex Computer Group <lctg@lists.toku.us><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] New York rabbi delivers sermon written by artificial intelligence<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>While on AI , here is a thought experiment I saw in oped in wsj. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>The new AI program was asked to reply to this : <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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? <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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 .. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Marvin <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from my iPad<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On Feb 15, 2023, at 4:30 PM, <a href="mailto:jjrudy1@comcast.net">jjrudy1@comcast.net</a> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/world/new-york-rabbi-delivers-sermon-written-by-artificial-intelligence-6BkwDEHc2ZWR63tmoOdvvf"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>www.thejc.com/news/world/new-york-rabbi-delivers-sermon-written-by-artificial-intelligence-6BkwDEHc2ZWR63tmoOdvvf</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Sermons, of course, are a small percentage of the job, so I suppose that they are OK</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>===============================================<br>::The Lexington Computer and Technology Group Mailing List::<br>Reply goes to sender only; Reply All to send to list.<br>Send to the list: <a href="mailto:LCTG@lists.toku.us">LCTG@lists.toku.us</a> Message archives: <a href="http://lists.toku.us/pipermail/lctg-toku.us/">http://lists.toku.us/pipermail/lctg-toku.us/</a><br>To subscribe: email <a href="mailto:lctg-subscribe@toku.us">lctg-subscribe@toku.us</a> To unsubscribe: email <a href="mailto:lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us">lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us</a><br>Future and Past meeting information: <a href="http://LCTG.toku.us">http://LCTG.toku.us</a><br>List information: <a href="http://lists.toku.us/listinfo.cgi/lctg-toku.us">http://lists.toku.us/listinfo.cgi/lctg-toku.us</a><br>This message was sent to <a href="mailto:mmenzin@icloud.com">mmenzin@icloud.com</a>.<br>Set your list options: <a href="http://lists.toku.us/options.cgi/lctg-toku.us/mmenzin@icloud.com">http://lists.toku.us/options.cgi/lctg-toku.us/mmenzin@icloud.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>