11/17/2024
The chief theme of Memoir of Angels is Israel as Balaam and Ben-Gurion, founder of Israel, as the talking ass. In discussions held weekly in his home for many years chief scientists made under cover of studying Torah to examine the issues of artificial intelligence.
That this is not generally known, or denied, is not so important as its prescience of considering whether "a machine can replace a single human intellectual function, and by linking together several coordinated machines through another machine, it may be possible to replace humans by creating an artificial form of intelligence. He says that temperature does not exist for a single atom and is only relevant when a group of atoms operate. He says that the coordinated activation of a large number of machines could evoke a new type of phenomena, one which could not arise from or be attributed to one machine or another."
These matters do not consider AI from its point of view, as is so prominent in the thinking of Yudkowsky and Musk, et. al., but against the background of the culture of the human embroider in cultural fabrics where humans solve their own problems and live with the consequences.