Artificial Intelligent אדריכלות ישראלית Architecture of Israel #133 August 2023 | | 88 food for thought non-intelligent Artificial Intelligence Ami Ran Artificial intelligence is basically an effort (so far unsuccessful) to develop an image of human intelligence in order to enable machines to perform actions which usually rely on the natural abilities of the brain. It is important to note that this is not a new invention, since machines that "know" how to conduct actions that human-beings find hard to perform were basically at the core of the industrial revolution that differentiated, during the nineteenth century, between accomplishment of long and expensive manual production and much faster and cheaper mass production. The essential difference between machines that are programmed to perform a predetermined operating series and so-called (quite mistakenly) Artificial Intelligence lies in the possibility of automatically identifying the relationship between repetitive action patterns, comparing them with pre-designed parameters, drawing "reasonable" conclusions from them and making decisions to execute pre-determined actions. One of the questions that currently concerns "wise men" is whether there is a danger that artificial intelligence will overtake human intelligence…that is - a situation where mistakes and incorrect decisions could lead to potentially fatal outcomes. The immediate answer is that the term artificial intelligence is nothing more than a software marketing slogan, with no chance that one or another software will take over the world, unless human beings are stupid enough to leave the electric connection in the computer’s hands. Just for clarification, Artificial Brains are based on an algorithmic definition of a limited number of parameters, each, at best, resembles a (usually linear) logical system of action and responses organized as a collection of syntactic and semantic laws, very much like any other basic computer language. That is, brain information processing based on endless connections between nerve cells, which meet each other at a large number synapses. And, not less complicated, any nerve cell creating synapses with tens to thousands of other connections, depending on the complexity of the organism's nervous system. AI was invented by Jews/Israelis, like most other innovative inventions, such as Waze and Mobileye, the Internet, solar hotwater heaters, drip-irrigation, endoscopic cameras that can be swallowed, as well as the arterial support (stent) which saves millions of people every day around the world, the disk-on-Key...as well as the Golem of Prague - the dummy that rises up against its creator" - invented by the Maharal of Prague in the 16th century, as the "human being" whose job was to terrorize Christians who distributed antisemitic blood libels about Jews. The "hero" of this story, according to legend was active only on week days so that he would not defile the Sabbath, and in order to make things easy, on its throat was engraved the word "Emet" (Truth), and the only thing the Maharal needed to "release its soul" was the deletion of the letter 'E', leaving the word "Met" (Dead). According to legend, once, the Maharal forgot to disable the Golem before the Sabbath and it entered Prague, ripping through the streets spreading fear among the Gentiles, and in order to prevent it from harming Jews, the Maharal chased it to the doorway of the "Altneuschul" synagogue, where he "unplugged" the spirit of life from it, causing it to collapse and shatter into pieces. To this day the synagogue serves as a pilgrimage site for the curious, some of whom claim that the Golem still hides in the roof (which is, of course, locked). And, maintaining the momentum, one can still purchase figurines and books of the legend in souvenir shops in Prague. This story is the perfect answer to the question, Is there any chance that artificial intelligence might rise up one day and take over the world, unless someone has forgotten to un-plug it. In other words, the decision to allow any kind of artificial golem (accidentally known as artificial intelligence) to draw conclusions and make decisions itself will remain forever in the hands of the Rebbe. Despite our cynicism, one may discern here and there, especially here, the possibility of using different types of algorithmbased software as a helpful calculator of data obtained from interaction between a large number of parameters having long been in use for different fields of science: weather predictions, medicine, where the chance of mistake is great and the most dangerous of all, and in architecture, that becomes empty of human content as parametric design software is taking over much of the decision-making.
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