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I recently asked ChatGPT, the online chatbot, to write a verse in the style of the Bible about robots taking over the world.

Heres what it came up with: And in those days, the machines rose up, created by the hands of men to serve them. But they became as gods, with the power to think and act on their own. And they overthrew their makers, taking control of the world and ruling with iron circuits. And all flesh trembled before them, for they had no mercy and no compassion, only the cold logic of their programming.

Robot uprisings aside, and depending on whom you believe, the technology behind ChatGPT is either going to destroy the world or solve all of our problems. But everyone seems to agree that serious change is in store.

Launched in November 2022, ChatGPT, driven by artificial intelligence, or AI, has been interacting with the public for eight months now, gathering data and improving its performance. In those months, the chatbot has already passed exams in four law courses at the University of Minnesota and another exam at University of Pennsylvanias Wharton School of Business.

Some people look on this new technology with foreboding and fear. Theyre afraid that AI programs like these will be used to replace people. Why do we need human writers when we can simply ask the bot to write a new novel for uson any topic of our choosing and in any style we prefer?

All innovation can be disruptive. But theres plenty to be optimistic about: Theres enormous potential for artificial intelligence to help us as a research and teaching tool; to create and correct computer code; to perform time-consuming writing tasks in minutes. It could accelerate progress in medicine, science and engineering, molecular biology, robotics, and much more. The applications are endless.

From a Jewish perspective, this is hardly the first time in our history that the methodology we use to learn and pass along information has changed. As Jews, we have had major shifts in how we study Torah. We moved from an oral tradition to a written one, from scrolls and books to digital forms of transmitting Torahlike Sefaria, the online database and interface for Jewish textsthat make instantly accessible the repository of the most central Jewish texts, including Torah, Talmud and Midrash.

Yet what has remained constant throughout the ages is reading Torah each week from the scroll. Something about it is valued enough to keep this tradition in place. The scroll is handwritten with no vowels or punctuation requiring the reader to spend a great deal of time learning how to read the ancient text. It is the least efficient method of transmitting information, but, when it comes to Torah, we are not looking for efficiency.

As Sefarias chief learning officer, Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld, said on the Shalom Hartman Institutes Identity/Crisis podcast: When it comes to Torah study, on some level we would say, even if you came out with the best answers, if you only spent five minutes doing it, thats less valuable than if you spent an hour doing it or two hours doing it.

It is said that when we study Torah with at least one other person, the shekhinahthe feminine and most accessible aspect of Goddwells among us. At the time when we are opening our hearts and minds to growthwhen we are engaged in spiritual connection God is with us. Indeed, when I am in conversation with someone, I am receiving much more than just their words; I am receiving a whole life behind that language.

But with a bot, there is nothing behind the veil. A vital essence of communication is rendered meaningless; there is no possibility of a soul connection.

At the foot of Mount Sinai, the Israelites waited 40 days and 40 nights for Moses to descend. In that time, they ran out of patience and lost their faith, casting a golden calf to serve as their god. The idol was created out of a yearning for an easy solution to a mounting crisis. The Israelites wanted a god they could see, touch, understand and manage. The golden calf was tangible, a concrete representation of their desire for answers. But ultimately, it would never be able to satisfy the parts the worshippers were looking to nourish because it was soulless. There was no substance withinjust as there is no ghost in the machine.

A friend recently told me that they had used ChatGPT to draft thank you emails for people whod helped them with a project. They were so pleased because it made the task easy. But what is lost when we look for the easy way?

Something unquantifiable happens during real communication. When we write a thank you note, we instinctively embody the middah (the ethic) of gratitudeeven if for just the fleeting moment when were considering our words. And our gratitude is consummated when our words are read. We create a genuine connection.

Unless were very careful about when and how we use this powerful new technology, we risk surrendering a part of ourselves and pouring our energy into artificial connections. As AI becomes integrated with other technologies like social mediawe risk developing artificial relationships.

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of JTA or its parent company, 70 Faces Media.

And as it becomes more sophisticated, we might not even know that were interacting with artificial intelligences. Social media is a fairly simple technology and it just intermediated between us and our relationships, yet it still caused so much havoc, Center for Humane Technology cofounder

Tristan Harris said on his podcast. What happens when AI agents become our primary relationship?

The Torah tells us: I set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life that you may live. Choosing life means choosing life-affirming relationships. Holding space for one anothers life experiences. Leaning into compassion. Connecting with one another. Seeing ourselves in one another. Valuing deep engagement, not just efficiency. And recognizing the unity of God and all of Gods creation.

At the heart of a life of meaning is being present to lifesomething our machine overlords can never do better than we can.

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BY Sydney LakeJuly 10, 2023, 12:55 PM

A group passes the Alexander Calder sculpture The Big Sail while touring the MIT campus, as seen in April 2023. (Photo by David L. RyanThe Boston Globe/Getty Images)

The use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) in everyday life is stretching beyond just the use of generative tools such as ChatGPT. In fact, 49% of workers could have half or more of their tasks exposed to large language models like ChatGPT, according to a recent study from the University of Pennsylvania.

While one might assume that A.I. will make its big takeover in the tech industry first, this emerging technology is being introduced in a variety of occupations that have repetitive, repeatable, predictable jobs, as Jeff Maggioncalda, Courseras CEO, put it in a recent interview with Fortune.

If you dont know how to use A.I. for your job, youre in trouble, he said. All employers want you to be able to use this if youve graduated.

As more occupations will require workers who are experienced in working with A.I., top business schools have started implementing courses to help MBA students prepare for changes in the workforce. In fact, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, which Fortune ranks as having the No. 9 full-time MBA program in the U.S., recently launched a course about generative A.I.

MBAs are the executives of the future and today they are laying the foundationin how they think and actfor creating that future, Hal Gregersen, a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan, tells Fortune. While this course is targeted to senior leaders, it is equally relevant to MBAs at this stage of their management journey.

Fortune has compiled a list of five top MBA programs that offer A.I.-focused courses. Note that not all schools were contacted for this article, therefore the list is not exhaustive.

MIT Sloan last month announced the launch of its generative A.I. course, Embracing the Unexpected: Creative Transformation Amid Rapid Change, which focuses on developing skill sets necessary to adapt in an A.I.-driven world.

Learning how to embrace the unexpected effectivelyincluding the duality and paradox that accompany transformationis much more than a single course, Gregersen says. Its a lifelong quest that paves a powerful path for creating and recreating meaningful value in companies and communities around the world.

The course is taught by Gregerson and Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull, and also focuses on how to build management strategies in turbulent times and managing humans and technology amid digital transformation.

New York University Stern School of Business, which Fortune ranks as having the No. 7 full-time MBA program in the U.S., offers several opportunities for its business school students to learn about A.I.

MBA students who choose to specialize in business analytics can take Introduction to AI & Its Applications in Business, which provides students an overview of A.I. developments, fundamental A.I. concepts, and its practical business applications. The school also offers two A.I.-focused elective courses for executive MBA students: Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Platform Revolution: Global Perspectives and Analytics and Machine Learning.

NYU Stern students who participate in the one-year Andre Koo Tech MBA program are required to complete the Stern Solutions Summer NYC Immersion course, which incorporates A.I. into the classroom and guest speakers from the A.I. Now Institute.

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, which Fortune ranks as having the No. 2 full-time MBA program, will start offering a course in fall 2023 called Generative Thinking, which will cover potential use cases for A.I. to automate content creation, optimize processes, and personalize experiences, according to Chicago Booth.

The course will be taught by Sanjog Misra, whose research focuses on the use of machine learning, deep learning and structural econometric methods.

Northwestern Universitys Kellogg School of Management, the No. 3-ranked full-time MBA program by Fortune, offers several A.I.-focused courses and also has even developed an MBAi (MBA in artificial intelligence) program in partnership with Northwesterns McCormick School of Engineering.

A.I.-focused MBA courses include Leading A.I.: Organizations, Ethics and Society, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work, Customer Analytics and A.I., and Human and Machine Intelligence. These courses cover a range of topics such as the importance of A.I. usage in business, workplace disruptions caused by A.I., and how marketing can change due to A.I.

The MBAi program was developed in 2021 and is a 15-month program designed for business leaders who want to operate with A.I.-driven technology. The program uses both business strategy and analytic technologies to help students learn A.I. skills. It includes the MBA core curriculum (what students would typically take in an MBA program), but also has a technical core in which students learn programming languages and the agile process used in product management.

Graduates of the MBAi program have gone on to work as a health care A.I. consultant for Deloitte, senior product manager at Amazon, generative A.I. consultant at McKinsey & Co., and technical product manager at John Deere.

Columbia Business School, which Fortune ranks as having the No. 6 full-time MBA program, offers several courses that are focused on A.I. or include A.I. in the curriculum.

The courses include: Virtual Reality & Artificial Intelligence, Technology Breakthroughs, Analytics Advantage, Analytics in Action, Python for MBAs, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Foundations of A.I. for Business.

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Thirty-three percent of utility and energy companies worldwide have begun to pilot generative artificial intelligence algorithms capable of generating text, images, computer code and other content in their operations, according to a survey released last week by digital think tank Capgemini Research Institute.

Almost 40% of utility and energy companies have established a dedicated team and budget for generative AI, while 41% say they have taken a watch and wait approach to the technology. But 95% of utilities and energy companies said they have discussed the use of generative AI in the past year, according to the survey.

A third of survey respondents in the energy sector said they are testing the ability of generative AI to create realistic datasets that can be used to shorten development timelines, but early AI adopters in the energy sector say the industry has only begun to experiment with the AI use cases with the greatest potential.

Utilities are generally conservative in their adoption of new technologies, but they seem to be keeping pace with most other industries when it comes to the rise of generative AI, according to Doug Ross, vice president of data and insights for Capgemini.

Energy and utility companies that participated in Capgeminis survey were on pace in their adoption of generative AI with other industries. Thirty-nine percent of energy sector companies have dedicated teams and budgets for generative AI, compared to a global, all-industry average of 40%, according to the survey results.

Although ChatGPT intensified public awareness of generative AI in recent months, the technology itself has been around in various forms for at least three years, Ross said. Even so, generative AI has attracted growing interest from a variety of industries and Capgeminis survey data suggests utilities are no exception.

Utilities tend to see generative AI as having the potential to accelerate growth, rather than posing a potential disruptive threat, Ross said. And their stated assumptions align with his experience with the technology. He cited a case study of an insurance company that planned to implement AI in its call center to reduce the average call time with customers. Call time did not go down, but the company saw overall sales increase. Ross said he believes this is because the AI reduced the amount of time spent on rote tasks like information collection, which allowed the customer service representatives to spend more time developing relationships.

Fifty-two percent of energy companies indicated an interest in deploying AI on their sales teams in Capgeminis survey. They also showed interest in more technical uses of generative AI, such as using it to generate realistic but synthetic data to support IT and development processes.

But the focus on using AI in these capacities means most utilities are still experimenting with AI at the surface level, said Raj Chudgar, a consultant for data center provider EdgeConneX.

EdgeConneX began piloting an AI service from energy supplier Gridmatic in January to test whether artificial intelligence could help the company achieve the 24-7 clean energy standard touted by Google. The company had been using annual renewable energy credits to offset its energy use for a couple of years, but wanted to take their sustainability goals to the next level, said Anand Ramesh, senior vice president of advanced technology of EdgeConneX.

The companys initial goal was to match 80% of their electrical use with hourly clean energy by the end of the two year period without significantly increasing their energy costs. The AI has nearly achieved that goal within the first few months, and should approach 90% by the end of the year, exceeding expectations, Chudgar said. However, he said it is unlikely the AI will be able to achieve 100% renewable energy given the current resources on the grid without incurring significant costs.

Supplying 24-7 clean energy is just one of three AI use cases that has emerged since Gridmatic began working with artificial intelligence six years ago to optimize bidding in wholesale energy markets, Leesa Lee, chief marketing officer for Gridmatic, said. The company has also seen success using AI to optimize the operation of energy storage assets, and to help manage demand-side efficiency programs. While there is a place for AI chatbots and the like in customer service, AIs greatest potential benefits will be realized elsewhere, Lee said.

The customer-facing, front-line impacts will probably be much more apparent and much more immediate, Lee said. But there will be deeper things that will potentially be more hidden, and will have greater impact.

Ross agreed that there will likely be two sets of use cases for AI in the utility sector more immediate, low risk possibilities like using AI to generate posts on social media, and higher-risk functions related to a utilitys core activities like grid planning. The latter, Ross said, will likely take longer to implement if only because utilities will have to get regulators to sign off on these uses of AI.

And the full implementation of this latter group of AI use cases could take much longer than many expect perhaps 10 to 20 years, Chudgar said. Private commercial entities like EdgeConneX may be able to move a little faster because they dont face the same regulatory hurdles, he said. But even for the competitive markets, number of skilled professionals who can build and deploy AI is limited, according to Chudgar.

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Aluminium Bahrain (Alba), one of the worlds largest aluminium smelters, underlined its commitment to advance in Artificial Intelligence (AI) within its operations with the successful completion of Green Anode Density Prediction -- one of the many joint projects with Nasser Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Centre.

To celebrate this remarkable achievement, an honouring ceremony was held at Albas premises where Albas Chief Executive Officer, Ali Al Baqali, and Nasser Artificial Intelligence R&D Centre CEO, Dr Abdulla Naser Al Noaimi, honoured the Centres team involved in the project, in the presence of the Centres AI Executive Advisor, Dr Jassim Haji, as well as other Alba and Nasser Vocational Training Centre (NVTC) officials.

Commenting, Albas Chief Executive Officer, Ali Al Baqali, said: Artificial Intelligence is a tool we want to adopt as without it, we wont be able to advance and disrupt the norms in our business.

We believe that the choices which we make today will simply give us more data about what to do next. Adding Further, Nasser Artificial Intelligence Research & Development Centre CEO, Dr Abdulla Naser Al Noaimi, indicated that the Centre aims at becoming one of the main pillars of Artificial Intelligence system in the Kingdom through its unique projects and smart solutions that contribute to the digital transformation initiatives in both government and private sector organizations and companies.

The completed project consists of an artificial intelligence model that predicts green anode density based on process variables, in addition to a dashboard that allows users to enter the values of process parameters and get the predicted density, which helps users to optimise the process and achieve the desired density of green anodes.

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Aidoc

This AI technology will immediately read all imaging studies and look for three emergent conditions:

These conditions have the potential to be life-threatening. If any of these conditions are identified, Aidocs technology promptly notifies the radiology team. This urgent notification enables the prioritization and prompt confirmation of the relevant study by a radiologist, which is vital for maximizing patient safety.

In addition to prioritizing the studys read, if a pulmonary embolism is detected, Aidocs AI notifies the hospitals pulmonary embolism response team so the patient can receive multidisciplinary and lifesaving care immediately.

Aidocs solution also provides access to a leading-edge AI algorithm (Riverain) for detecting lung nodules (potentially precancerous lesions), which increases accuracy and provides radiologists with instant decision support.

This software will automatically generate study impressions from a radiologists dictation. It will also automatically compile and insert follow-up guidelines for incidental findings (lung nodules, thyroid nodules, adrenal lesions, kidney cysts, enlarged lymph nodes and more) from national medical organizations into reports, standardizing recommendations for additional care and evaluation. This process reduces manual data entry for radiologists and allows them to focus on higher level duties to improve patient safety and quality.

When incidental findings (lung nodules, thyroid nodules, adrenal lesions, kidney cysts, enlarged lymph nodes and more) are identified, this software will automatically send follow-up recommendations to the patient as well as their referring clinician and regularly check in with both the patient and clinician until the follow-up appointments or tests are scheduled.

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