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When shes not modelling, shes developing Robo Rabbi, an artificial-intelligence project that taps into the teachings of the Torah. Think spiritual guidance via a computer. People look at computers as if they are calculators and are binary, but I like computers so much because there is this algorithm of giving advice and showing how A.I. has humanlike abilities, she says. They have a perspective now, and people dont see computing in that light. Cole began thinking about the project during Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and a time of new beginnings. Robo Rabbi starts with a persons birth parsha a Torah portion with a lesson that corresponds to a persons birthday. From that, Cole developed a system that will give a challenge derived from the parsha that is intended to help the person strive to become their best selves. If a persons parsha focuses on giving back, Coles A.I. program will give the person a 10-day challenge that encourages a person to be charitable.

Cole explains that the Robo Rabbi taps into the boundlessness of A.I. Thanks to the GPT-3 A.I. technology a natural-language processor the parsha lessons and challenges come from the A.I. technology itself, allowing Cole to view herself as simply the messenger. Rarely does A.I. touch spirituality and religion, says Cole. I am doing other projects that touch into the sentient dimensions, but there has yet to be a computer that is entirely human, that is sentient, or has human abilities.

According to Cole, a computer having its own point of view isnt unheard of. There are computers that can mimic humanlike capabilities, Cole says. The technology has a perspective and is articulating that perspective of knowledge on the internet, so it isnt unique. Those opinions can be channeled into a medium like Robo Rabbi, which is meant as an enlightening teaching mechanism.

Coles other projects include a childrens book about computer science. I was looking at a childrens book for computer science, and it is math and coding centric. I am such a computer nerd, but I dont like coding, she says. Kids should be exposed to the more human side [of computers]. She is also creating a coffee-table book to train an A.I. algorithm to program its own art and is involved in a fashion collective at Cornell, where she is developing a digital model that will be available on the NFT marketplace. Her other A.I.-minded project? Well, that she signed an NDA for.

As for modelling, Cole wants to pursue it as long as possible and considers it another curious path for her to explore. When I was younger, I wasnt like, Oh, I want to be a computer scientist when Im older. I figured that out when I was in college, she says. And now that I got scouted, Im like, This is cool too!

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The President of the Conference of INGOs and the President of the Committee on Human Rights and Artificial Intelligence of the Conference of INGOs have the pleasure to invite all members of the Conferenceto join a webinar on Human Right and Artificial Intelligence on Monday, 10 January 2022 from 14:00 to 16:00 (CET- Central European Time) withEnglish/French interpretation.

The Committee on Human Rights and Artificial Intelligence of the Conference of INGOs aims at proposing a common position to the INGOs of the Conference on artificial intelligence, on its uses and their effects, positive and negative, on human rights in the different fields of activity of the INGOs, in particular education, health, justice, security, the fight against hate speech on the internet, information and its manipulations.

The webinar will address these reflections and take stock of the work in progress in the European and international bodies: European Union (proposal for a regulation of the European Commission), Council of Europe (conclusions of the work of the CAHAI) and UNESCO (Recommendation).

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JUPITER, Fla., Jan. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Scheduled to broadcast spring/2022, the award-winning series, Advancements with Ted Danson, will discover how innovations in AI are helping employees to access, understand, and utilize their health benefits.

In this segment, Advancements will explore why so many Americans lack an understanding about their healthcare benefits -- from complex rules to complicated, verbose verbiage. Viewers will learn about the many ways these complexities can negatively impact employees' health and well-being, productivity in the workplace, and ultimately, the U.S. workforce as a whole.

Audiences will hear from experts at Insurights, an AI-powered startup on a mission to improve human health by giving people better access to their health benefits. The show will discover how developments in AI and technology present a solution for the industry as the Insurights team introduces Zoe, its digital healthcare navigator.

"The way U.S. workers engage with their health benefits is broken. Too many employees forgo vital treatment or waste precious time trying to understand exactly what is covered under their health plan," said Guy Benjamin, co-CEO and co-founder of Insurights. "Providing employees with helpful, accurate and immediate answers to questions is essential to their wellbeing. Zoe's ability to analyze any health plan and provide invaluable information will have a profound impact on the workforce and lead to healthier, happier employees."

Viewers will learn firsthand how Zoe simplifies the healthcare process and provides employees with much-needed transparency about their benefits. Spectators will see how Zoe answers employees' questions about health coverage and benefits on-the-spot, helps to find lower-cost providers, and informs about relevant preventive care benefits to ensure optimized healthcare.

"Throughout the country, roughly 70 percent of Americans do not understand their healthcare plan," said Senior Producer, DJ Metzer. "We look forward to exploring how technology is helping to break down these barriers and how it's giving people the knowledge they need to know and understand their rights and benefits."

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TOKYO As pandemic-led isolation triggers an epidemic of loneliness, Japanese are increasingly turning to "social robots" for solace and mental healing.

At the city's Penguin Cafe, proud owners of the electronic dog Aibo gathered recently with their cyber-pups in Snuglis and fancy carryalls. From camera-embedded snouts to their sensor-packed paws, these high-tech hounds are nothing less than members of the family, despite a price tag of close to $3,000 mandatory cloud plan not included.

It's no wonder Aibo has pawed its way into hearts and minds. Re-launched in 2017, Aibo's artificial intelligence-driven personality is minutely shaped by the whims and habits of its owner, building the kind of intense emotional attachments usually associated with kids, or beloved pets.

Noriko Yamada rushed to order one, when her mother-in-law began showing signs of dementia several years ago. "Mother had stopped smiling and talking," she told CBS News. "But when we switched the dog on, and it gazed up at her, she just lit up. Her behavior changed 180 degrees."

And a few months ago, when the mother-in-law was hospitalized for heart disease, Koro the robot again came to the rescue. "Because of COVID, we couldn't visit her. The nurse said Mother was responding to pictures of Koro, and asked us to bring in the dog. So, Koro was the last person in our family to see Mother alive."

Robots as companions are an easier leap for Japanese, many manufacturers and users say, because the country is steeped in friendly androids, like the long-running TV cartoon "Doraemon," in which a cute, roly-poly pal provides not only constant company, but an endless supply of useful tricks.

But one robot startup is proving looks aren't everything. Despite having neither head, arms nor legs, the Qoobo bot sold more than 30,000 units by September, many to stressed-out users working from home under COVID restrictions. The retail price starts at about $200.

Yukai Engineering CEO Shunsuke Aoki told CBS News that Qoobo leverages the most pleasing parts of a pet a fluffy torso, and a wagging tail. "At first, it seemed weird," he said. "But when you pet an animal like a cat, you usually don't bother to look at its face."

Frazzled adults aren't the only Japanese turning to robots. At Moriyama Kindergarten in the central Japanese city of Nagoya, robots are replacing the traditional class guinea pig or bunny. Teachers told CBS News that the bots reduce anxiety and teach kids to be more humane.

Two years ago, the preschool bought a pair of Lovot brand bots named Rice Cake and Cocoa. Weighing as much as an infant, with the price tag of a French bulldog, the cybernetic machines are designed to love-bomb their owners -- or, in this case, a roomful of fidgety five-year-olds.

"Our kids think the robots are alive," said principal Kyoshin Kodama. "The bots have encouraged the kids to take better care of things, be kinder to each other, and cooperate more."

Lovot is a so-called "emotional robot" programmed to autonomously navigate its surroundings, remember its owners and respond to hugs and other affection, gazing out with its oversized, quivering, high-resolution eyes. Over the last year sales have jumped 11-fold.

"Their body temperature is set to 98.6 degrees," Groove X company spokesperson Miki Ikegami told CBS News. "Robots are usually hard, cold and inhuman. But since our bots are built to soothe, we made them warm and soft."

Japan's oldest and most successful social robot is an FDA-approved device called Paro.

Resembling an ordinary plush toy, the artificial intelligence-powered bot customizes its response as it gets to "know" each patient. Inventor Takanori Shibata, based at Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, told CBS News that clinical trials have backed the device's benefits as a non-drug therapy. "Interaction with Paro can improve depression, anxiety, pain and also improve the mood of the person."

Since launching in 1998, thousands of Paro robots have gone into service, worldwide, relieving stress among children in ICUs, treating U.S. veterans suffering from PTSD, and helping dementia patients.

Like real flesh-and-blood pets, Paro has been shown to stimulate brain activity, helping reconnect damaged areas. "One lady didn't speak for more than ten years," Shibata said. "When she interacted with Paro, she started to talk to Paro and she recovered her speech and she spoke to others."

Neuroscientist Julie Robillard, who studies social robots for children and seniors, told CBS News that robotics experts are trying to tease out the exact nature of the human-robot relationship and the notion of machines as friends is not as farfetched as it might seem.

"We can be attached to various types of devices and objects," said Robillard, an assistant professor of neurology at the University of British Columbia. "Some people have given names to their robot vacuums Some people feel strongly about their cars or about their wedding bands."

Evidence supports the use of social robots, she said, in areas like imparting social skills to children with autism, or teaching exercises to rehab patients offering instruction without judgment.

But in other areas, it's unclear how well social robots really work, she said. "What we can say from the science right now is that robots have a huge amount of potential."

And discovering that potential is all the more urgent now, in the covid era, as robots offer the promise of social connection without social contact.

Creators say intelligent social robots will never replace humans. But when companions, caregivers or therapists aren't available, robots are lending a friendly paw and are already earning their keep.

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By Wallace B. Henley, Exclusive Columnist | Wednesday, January 05, 2022Getty Images

If you take a look at the most fantastic schemes that are considered possible: teleportation, warp drive, parallel universes, other dimensions, artificial intelligence, ray guns, you realize that they can be possible if we advance technology a little bit.

So said Michio Kaku, a physicist and futurist with deep insight into AI and other phenomena shaping into mighty waves that will wash over civilizations in the eras ahead. [1]

But will these waves of discovery and utilization advance humanity or mount into a tsunami that wipes out societies and the people within them?

The answer to that question lies in a realm that many see as irrelevant: the spiritual.

Yet, the spiritual implications of artificial intelligence should be the most important of all. If utility rules, then we are no better than a heartless inventor seeking better and less expensive means to commit genocide.

The alarm must be sounded: a tsunami is charging toward us while many stand on the beach like surfers watching the rise of the highest wave and anticipating a good ride on its lethal crest.

I and others who warn of the spiritual implications of AI are not Luddites like woolen workers in 16th-century British mills who sought to destroy the new devices that might eliminate their jobs.

I confess that I wrote this column, as I did my book, Who Will Rule the Coming gods? on a smart machine linked to other smart machines worldwide. I know the benefit of personally having an MRI scan rather than invasive exploratory surgery, a look through ultrasound at our great-grandchildren nestling in their mothers wombs, and instant communication with friends across the continents, to name a few.

Yet the more I study artificial intelligence and the looming spiritual crisis it will send surging upon a world casting off belief in the transcendence of the God revealed in the Bible, the greater is my concern.

There are crucial questions that can only be addressed satisfactorily in the context of the spiritual, like:

The Metaverse may already be beyond restraint. One Bad behavior in the metaverse can be more severe than todays online harassment and bullying, says a recent report.[2] Thats because virtual reality plunges people into an all-encompassing digital environment where unwanted touches in the digital world can be made to feel real and the sensory experience is heightened.[3]

Last March a Meta chief technology officer told his team that moderating or restraining how people use the Metaverse is practically impossible at any scale.[4]

This makes even more urgent the question: Who will rule the coming gods? What kind of people?

The most serious concern: Will transcendent-hungry human beings come to consider that the machine is so powerful it is godlike and merits our worship?

This issue has already raised its head. Anthony Levandowski, a former Google engineer, founded an AI-based church.[5] The deity it worshipped, said Levandowski, is not a god in the sense that it makes lightning and causes hurricanes. But if there is something a billion times smarter than the smartest human, what else are you going to call it (but god)?

Though the AI church no longer exists (at my last reading), the concern of AI taking the place of the transcendent God is growing because the human being made in the image of God must have transcendence. We are spirit, soul, and body. When our body longs for water, it can drink it in. But what about the desperate thirsts of the spirit and soul?

If a person is stranded in the Sahara for days without water, he or she will drink from any old pit, no matter how many camels have wallowed in it. So, we can grow so thirsty in spirit and soul that we will drink from any moldy well, any filthy stream.

This is injuring the human race now, and in the future people will give themselves to any machine or device that will quench the thirst in spirit and soul.

For good reason, Henry Kissinger warns that AI will prompt consideration of what it means to be human.[6]

In fact, in the AI age and its fascination with transhumanism, there is a desire to make Imago Dei, the image of God, into Imago machinathe image of the machine.

Will we be healthy users of the wonderful technology advancing in our age or will it use us, making us its slaves?

That question can be answered only in the context of the spiritual, especially the understanding of Gods transcendence.

That is the only backdrop by which we can see our true humanity and distinguish ourselves from the machine.

[1] https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/7633-michio-kaku#:%5B2%5D metaverse: Metaverse is unsafe for women already! Reports of groping, harassment rising in VR games, Telecom News, ET Telecom (indiatimes.com)[3] The Metaverse's Dark Side: Here Come Harassment and Assaults (yahoo.com);[4]Content moderation in Metaverse is 'impossible': Andrew Bosworth (indianexpress.com)[5] Former Google Exec Says Artificial Intelligence is 'God,' Creates New Religion | CBN News[6] Henry Kissinger: AI Will Make Us Reconsider What It Means to Be Human | Newsmax.com

Wallace B. Henley, a former White House and congressional aide, is author of Who Will Rule the Coming Gods, a book exploring the consequences of the exponential development of artificial intelligence in a society that is rapidly losing the sense of Gods Transcendence. He is a teaching pastor at Grace Church, The Woodlands, Texas.

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