AI

"Artificial intelligence has the potential to improve our lives in a variety of ways"

Avi Blizovsky
September 1, 2023
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Dr. Aya Sofer, director of IBM's research laboratory in Israel, was a guest at the high-tech Silicon Club managers' forum: "Besides the many advantages, there are of course also challenges that are not easy, such as a built-in bias in models or data, or the creation of fake news and its use to bias public opinion. To combat these, we must adopt ethical information standards for the use of artificial intelligence - and educate consumers to use it critically."

The Innovation Authority chose Next Silicon to establish a supercomputer infrastructure for R&D organizations in the field of artificial intelligence

Avi Blizovsky
August 17, 2023
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The Authority will invest up to NIS 30 million in the establishment of the infrastructure so that it will serve all the companies and researchers in Israel and will be used for research and development of accelerators, hardware components, communication and infrastructure software. The new infrastructure is supposed to respond to the increase in the demand for data processing with artificial intelligence on supercomputers, server farms and processing units end

Artificial intelligence: government policy in Israel and the West

Avi Blizovsky
July 7, 2023
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All attempts to regulate the field of artificial intelligence were at best amateurish, states the Knesset's research division. New regulations must be built and an adequate budget allocated to them

A document of the Knesset Research Center: Creative Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities, Risks and Regulation Part I

Avi Blizovsky
July 6, 2023
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In a document prepared for a discussion in the Science Committee, the subject of creative artificial intelligence is briefly presented, which is a catalyst for the recent public discourse; policy issues arising from its development; Information regarding government decisions, committees and a national program on artificial intelligence in Israel, and a concise reference to trends in regulation in Europe and the United States

Volvo invests in CorrActions, which has developed technology to monitor the driver's brain activity

Avi Blizovsky
April 27, 2023
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CorrActions' system uses motion sensors found in every digital device and allows car manufacturers to understand through AI symptoms of drivers and passengers such as fatigue, lack of attention, effects of alcohol and drugs and various diseases

The European Union and the United States are promoting moves to address ethics in artificial intelligence

Avi Blizovsky
February 12, 2023
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However, there are major differences between the two approaches in many aspects. Among other things, in the absence of mandatory prison sentences in the USA compared to the European Union, and in the large decentralization of powers in the USA compared to horizontal regulation in Europe