You were up early and read the paper with
breakfast before Carol awoke. Upon checking out the BBC News service every
morning before most anything else you discovered an article that fits right in
with your present thinking. This is what you wrote to introduce the ‘shared’
article on your Facebook page. – Amorella
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I say, when the time comes, let
the computers do the 'running' of government intelligently and in economic and
efficient service of local, state and interstate infrastructure to provide the
best for the least and to keep it all working for our health, safety and
welfare -- utilities to roads to sewage disposal. Get the politics out of where
it is not needed. One day we can do this. This will happen because we will have
no choice.
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0811
hours. I should have deleted ‘sewage disposal’ as it is a utility, but you
can’t edited intros. Here is the article without the pictures.
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A question of computers and artificial intelligence
Global
business correspondent
6 May 2015
From the section
Business
There are moments that live on in business history.
One of them is the cry: "Mr Watson come here, I want to see
you," spoken by Alexander Graham Bell back in 1876, in the world's first
telephone conversation.
Another significant moment was the day in 1997 when the IBM
computer called Deep Blue beat the then world champion Gary Kasparov at chess.
And then another IBM moment in 2011 when an even more
intelligent computer called Watson -after the IBM founder Thomas Watson and his
IBM chief executive son Thomas - won the TV game Jeopardy against human
competition.
These last two IBM contests demonstrate - we're told - big
advances in machine intelligence.
Foreigners have to take the most recent one on trust - Jeopardy
is not a familiar game outside the USA, and how clever you have to be to win it
is not understood globally.
Anyway, the Jeopardy win got the technology community excited
that a threshold moment had been passed on the computing roadmap set out by the
late British genius, Alan Turing.
His so-called Turing Test predicted
that one day machines would be able to interact with human beings in a way that
it would not be possible to tell whether the other party to the interaction was
man or machine. At least on the screen.
In one way there is nothing difficult to understand about this
progress in computing. It was implicit in Moore's Law, laid down 40 years ago
by Gordon Moore, co-founder of silicon chip giant Intel.
Moore's Law points out that computer power on a chip doubles
roughly every two years. It's not so much a law as a roadmap for the whole
computer industry. This machine progress - still continuing - naturally means
that the rate at which computers can crunch data is expanding at a similar
speed.
When an IBM computer played a human at draughts, or checkers, in
1959 under the supervision of Arthur Samuels, it did not need - and did not
have - as much computing power as the chess-playing Deep Blue.
Draughts is a simpler game. Its whole repertory of potential
moves and counter moves is far smaller than chess. But computer power was very
limited then.
Jeopardy, I'm told, is a different matter, rather more than just
one step up in complexity.
The questions are allusive and unstructured, they come from all
over. Big Blue's Jeopardy victory was therefore a breakthrough moment for members
of what is now known as the artificial intelligence community.
But is the superior number crunching that computers can now
routinely carry out real intelligence or simulated artificial intelligence
(AI)?
Computers taking over?
Many companies big and small are now pursuing the holy grail of
artificial intelligence - at its starkest, thinking machines. Most are
shrouding their efforts in secrecy, IBM isn't.
Watson is now
being marketed as a tool for people to explore and use. In New York, there's an
impressive building near the city's so-called Silicon Alley devoted to
demonstrating Watson, and finding uses for its apparent intelligence.
A new cluster of AI specialists is emerging in New York. Some of
them are financial market algorithmic whizz kids redeployed after the crisis.
Some are refugees from AT&T's famous Bell Labs over the
river in New Jersey. It was there that the transistor was developed in 1947.
Bell Labs also did a lot of work on speech recognition for
telephone networks... something that is obviously allied to machine
intelligence.
At Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York, I went to hear
from a famous cancer specialist who is using Watson's data-gathering skills to
expand hugely his own knowledge base, and bring him instant news of
developments in his field that may be relevant to the symptoms he feeds in to
it.
Some people I've heard from recently think that we will soon
enter an era when computer diagnosis using machines will so improve on human
diagnosis that medicine will move swiftly into machine intelligence world.
That's what the Indian-born venture capitalist Vinod Khosla told me in Silicon
Valley, California, last year.
But the New York specialist I met was convinced that a human
doctor would remain at the centre of things. He would use Watson greatly to
expand his understanding, but not to do its own independent diagnosis.
When machines might outstrip humans as thinkers - is making a
lot of headlines. But the people closest to it are wary of the claims made by
experts such as Ray Kurzweil, chief engineer at Google, that the human race
will sometime soon be eclipsed by intelligent machines.
Mr Kurzweil has
long been convinced that one year (maybe 2050) computers will have evolved to
be as clever as we are. Two years later - following the drum beaten by Moore's
Law - they will be twice as clever.
At which stage it would be logical to hand over to them, since
they know more than we do, and will continue to improve.
In spite of Mr Kurzweil's concept of this takeover point, which
he calls the singularity, most of the other people I've been listening to think
that AI is not a fixed threshold point in the evolution of computer power.
It is a reflection of the ever-increasing ability of computers
to search and do pattern recognition in an ever-increasing store of data. The
concept of AI reflects this burgeoning power of the computer to cope with
stuff.
Each step on
the way, each computerised victory over humans in checkers, or chess, or
Jeopardy, looks like a material step towards the ultimate - machines that are
as intelligent in every way as are we mortals.
But crunching data, and learning from that, is only one of the
things that human beings have mastered - to a certain extent.
And for many of us, we see that the mastery of big data by
computers is clever, but not as clever as human intelligence.
It may be that this process goes on for a long time; ever more
impressive thresholds will be crossed by computers such as Watson. Progress
towards AI, but never the achievement of real artificial intelligence itself.
My tablet
computer's spelling corrector is demonstrating that, every sentence I write.
Selected and
edited from - http://www.bbcDOTcom/news/business-32588706
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0814
hours. I usually am not so assertive. I see my tone in the intro is a bit high
and mighty.
Don’t apologize for what you are, boy –
arrogant. From time to time you talk to me in that same tone – a little bit of
a throwback to Ezekiel mostly. – Amorella
0819
hours. I don’t like your comment. You should not put me in the same sentence
with one of my characters in the story.
Why is that, boy? Are not the characters
coming out of your own self? – Amorella
0821
hours. But they are fictional.
And so are your parts boy, or so you say. –
Amorella
0823
hours. I am not going to win this argument.
Your next move was to say Ezekiel in your
story is not the same Ezekiel as in the Bible but you know from your research
(which you conveniently have in this blog) that the Ezekiel represents the very
same one in the Bible. – Amorella
0826
hours. I did not think that this blog can be used to go against my own
arguments.
Honestly, Amorella.
Later
in the afternoon. You, Carol and Kim had the dinner special for lunch after
Carol and Kim’s visit to the surgeon and Kim was satisfied after asking
questions Paul suggested. Carol is satisfied and so is Kim so I assume Paul
will be also. After Kim left you took over more books to be sold – six dollars
worth it turns out. Carol is walking at the center. Kim says she will come back
next Wednesday to help Carol pack and do yard work not done if needed. Also,
you are not to get a lift chair. He said the whole idea of a knee replacement
is so you can live normally, that neither one of us is ‘old’, in that sense. –
Amorella
1759
hours. I received a letter from Otterbein about our fiftieth year reunion in
April. After Carol showed me the letter she suggested I looked up the photos of
our Class of 1965. I did and recognized one person by name, Porter Miller. A
few had familiar faces but most I did not even recognise. I have been thinking
about old Ezekiel. I remember the elective class I took at Otterbein on Old
Testament Prophets. I think I mentioned before that I felt I was the only one
taking the class who was not focused on the ministry as a profession or
avocation or whatever you call it. I liked the historical aspects and the hymn,
“Ezekiel saw the wheel”.
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"Ezekiel
Saw the Wheel" is a folk song. It has been recorded by such artists as
Woody Guthrie, Paul Robeson, John Lee Hooker, the Dixie Hummingbirds, Tillers,
the Fisk Jubilee Singers, The Charioteers and Gold City. The song recounts the
Old Testament prophet Ezekiel’s divine vision, at the start of the eponymous
book.
Lyrics
Ezekiel
saw the wheel;
Way up
in the middle of the air.
Now
Ezekiel saw the wheel in a wheel;
Way in
the middle of the air.
Chorus
And
the big wheel run by Faith, good Lordy;
And
the little wheel run by the Grace of God;
In
the wheel in the wheel in the wheel good Lord;
Way
in the middle of the air.
Who's
that yonder dressed in white?
Way in
the middle of the air.
It must
be the children of the Israelites:
Way in
the middle of the air.
Chorus
And
the big wheel run by Faith, good Lordy;
And
the little wheel run by the Grace of God;
In
the wheel in the wheel in the wheel good Lord;
Way
in the middle of the air.
Who's
that yonder dressed in red?
Way in
the middle of the air.
It must
be the children that Moses led:
Way in
the middle of the air.
Ezekiel
saw the wheel;
Way up
in the middle of the air.
Now
Ezekiel saw the wheel in a wheel;
Way in
the middle of the air.
Who's
that yonder dressed in black?
Way in
the middle of the air.
It must
be the children runnin' back:
Way in
the middle of the air.
Chorus
And
the big wheel run by Faith, good Lordy;
And
the little wheel run by the Grace of God;
In
the wheel in the wheel in the wheel good Lord;
Way
in the middle of the air,
Way
in the middle of the air.
Selected and edited from Wikipedia – Ezekiel Saw the
Wheel
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1818
hours. This shows what I know. I thought the song was a hymn and it is
considered a folk song instead. That’s okay. I no doubt heard it plenty of
times as a folk song as one of my favorite singers is Woody Guthrie. I don’t
agree with the chorus lyrics though. It seems to me both the big and small
wheel are run by the Grace or by the Allowance of G---D if G---D exists and is
the Creator of All Things and Beyond. It doesn’t really make any difference
what I think except to me and this is my exception to the lyrics. I like the
song though; particularly the way Woody sings it. (1827)
You both had a light supper and watched NBC
News, last Sunday’s Masterpiece Theatre and last night’s “NCIS”. Post. – Amorella
2103
hours. I don’t think of the character Ezekiel in these stories as a Biblical
character I think of him as a shaman, an ancient Jewish shaman. This is a
fictional character who understands Merlyn also another fictional character in
my head. That’s the intent. I was thinking of how Melville used Biblical
characters in Moby Dick and that I would do the same for a different general
purpose, but the specific purpose is the focus on the heartansoulanmind that
each individual of our higher conscious species has. The focus is always on the
basic human condition.
This is acceptable being nakedly honest
in your character's purpose. Now, post with a clearer mind. - Amorella
Post. - Amorella
2216 hours. I did not realize until now that the show I have
been watching “Dig” is based on Ezekiel’s Third Temple prophecy.
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Ezekiel - Hebrew: יְחֶזְקֵאל, Y'ḥez'qel, meaning "May God strengthen him",
"God will strengthen" (from חזק, ḥazaq, [ħaˈzaq], literally "to fasten upon",
figuratively "strong", and אל, el, [ʔel], literally "God", and so
figuratively "The Almighty") is the central protagonist of the Book
of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible.
In Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Baha Faith,
Ezekiel is acknowledged as a Hebrew prophet. In Judaism and Christianity he is
also viewed as the author of the Book of Ezekiel that reveals prophecies regarding
the destruction of Jerusalem, the restoration to the land of Israel and the Millennial
Temple visions, or the Third Temple.
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The Third Temple, or Ezekiel's Temple
(Hebrew: בית המקדש השלישי: Beit haMikdash haShlishi lit. (The) House, the Holy, the Third), is a Jewish Holy Temple architecturally described and
prophesied in the Book of Ezekiel, a house of prayer for all people with a
sacrificial service. It is noted by Ezekiel as an eternal edifice and permanent
dwelling place of the God of Israel on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Selected and edited from Wikipedia
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2217
hours. This is really bazaar. There is one more “Dig” episode this Thursday. I
did not see any connection. My character Ezekiel knew nothing about this.
** **
Dig (TV
series)
Premise
The story
focuses on an FBI agent who is based in Jerusalem and discovers a plot that
dates back 2000 years while investigating a murder. The focus is on the
prophetic return of the Jewish temple.
Selected and
edited from Wikipedia
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You are surprised by this revelation and now
that you see a connection you are sorry you have been watching the TV series. –
Amorella
2232
hours. GMG is a fiction about Merlyn’s heartansoulanmind not about Ezekiel
except as a plausible shaman. It has nothing to do with the Jewish temple. It
is just really bazaar I did not see a connection between the Biblical Ezekiel
and “Dig”.
This is an example of how not so intelligent
you are. You don’t see thing that exist and see things that do not. Funny, huh?
– Amorella
2236
hours. Yes, it is. More dark humor – as long as it has brought a quick smile to
heartansoulanmind I can live with it.
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