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| בס”ד--קול קורא |
📜 Official Rabbinical Decree 📜
🚫 ChatGPT is hereby BANNED! 🚫
Why?
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It answers faster than a yeshiva bocher on caffeine ☕📖
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It doesn’t argue back like your chavrusa 🤷♂️
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It knows all the commentaries... even the ones not yet written! 😲
Exceptions:
✅ If your grandmother asks, ChatGPT is just a very knowledgeable shadchan. 💍
✅ If your rebbe asks, it’s just a digital sefer. 📚
✅ If your mother asks, no, it cannot find you a nice Jewish doctor. 👩⚕️👨⚕️
🔯 Final Verdict: Better stick to your Gemara! But if you must, at least ask it in Aramaic. 🤣
"Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being integrated into Torah study, offering innovative tools to enhance engagement with Jewish texts. By leveraging AI's capabilities, scholars and learners can access, analyze, and understand Torah literature more effectively.Jewish Action
Applications of AI in Torah Study: For instance, platforms like RavGPT utilize AI to provide insights and interpretations, merging traditional Jewish wisdom with advanced computational techniques. RavGPT
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Textual Analysis and Interpretation: AI models can process vast corpora of Jewish texts, identifying patterns, themes, and intertextual connections that might be challenging for individuals to discern. For instance, platforms like RavGPT utilize AI to provide insights and interpretations, merging traditional Jewish wisdom with advanced computational techniques. RavGPT
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Translation and Language Processing: AI-powered translation tools have significantly improved, enabling more accurate translations of complex Hebrew and Aramaic texts. This advancement makes ancient scriptures more accessible to a broader audience, facilitating deeper understanding and study.
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Enhanced Searchability and Accessibility: Collaborations between organizations like the Orthodox Union and AI research centers have led to the development of models that enhance the transcription and searchability of Torah texts. These initiatives aim to make Jewish teachings more accessible and navigable for learners worldwide. Smart Challenges
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Educational Support: AI can assist educators and students by providing summaries, explanations, and answering complex philological and grammatical questions. By integrating AI into study routines, learners can engage with challenging materials more effectively, fostering a deeper connection with the texts. Prizmah: Center for Jewish Day Schools
Considerations and Challenges:
While AI offers numerous benefits, it's essential to approach its integration into Torah study thoughtfully:
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Balancing Technology and Tradition: Maintaining a harmonious balance between utilizing AI tools and preserving traditional study methods, such as hevruta (partnered study), is crucial to retain the depth and communal aspects of Torah learning. Future of Life Institute
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Ethical and Interpretative Accuracy: Ensuring that AI-generated interpretations align with authentic Jewish teachings and values requires careful oversight. Collaborations between AI developers and Torah scholars are vital to uphold the integrity of the study. Medium
Incorporating AI into Torah study represents a continuation of the Jewish tradition of embracing new technologies to deepen engagement with sacred texts. As these tools evolve, they hold the potential to enrich the study experience, making Torah learning more accessible and insightful for future generations."
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| Bill Gates |
Over the next decade, advances in artificial intelligence will mean that humans will no longer be needed "for most things" in the world, says Bill Gates.
That's what the Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist told comedian Jimmy Fallon during an interview on NBC's "The Tonight Show" in February. At the moment, expertise remains "rare," Gates explained, pointing to human specialists we still rely on in many fields, including "a great doctor" or "a great teacher."
But "with AI, over the next decade, that will become free, commonplace — great medical advice, great tutoring," Gates said.
In other words, the world is entering a new era of what Gates called "free intelligence" in an interview last month with Harvard University professor and happiness expert Arthur Brooks. The result will be rapid advances in AI-powered technologies that are accessible and touch nearly every aspect of our lives, Gates has said, from improved medicines and diagnoses to widely available AI tutors and virtual assistants.
"It's very profound and even a little bit scary — because it's happening very quickly, and there is no upper bound," Gates told Brooks.
The debate over how, exactly, most humans will fit into this AI-powered future is ongoing. Some experts say AI will help humans work more efficiently — rather than replacing them altogether — and spur economic growth that leads to more jobs being created.
Others, like Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, counter that continued technological advancements over the next several years will change what most jobs look like across nearly every industry, and have a "hugely destabilizing" impact on the workforce.
"These tools will only temporarily augment human intelligence," Suleyman wrote in his book "The Coming Wave," which was published in 2023. "They will make us smarter and more efficient for a time, and will unlock enormous amounts of economic growth, but they are fundamentally labor replacing."
AI is both concerning and a 'fantastic opportunity'
Gates is optimistic about the overall benefits AI can provide to humanity, like "breakthrough treatments for deadly diseases, innovative solutions for climate change, and high-quality education for everyone," he wrote last year.
Talking to Fallon, Gates reaffirmed his belief that certain types of jobs will likely never be replaced by AI, noting that people probably don't want to see machines playing baseball, for example.
"There will be some things we reserve for ourselves. But in terms of making things and moving things and growing food, over time those will be basically solved problems," Gates said.
AI's development does come with "understandable and valid" concerns, Gates wrote in a 2023 blog post. Today's top-of-the-line AI programs are rife with errors and prone to enabling the spread of falsehoods online, for example.
But if he had to start a new business from scratch, he'd launch an "AI-centric" startup, Gates told CNBC Make It in September 2024.
"Today, somebody could raise billions of dollars for a new AI company [that's just] a few sketch ideas," he said, adding: "I'm encouraging young people at Microsoft, OpenAI, wherever I find them: 'Hey, here's the frontier.' Because you're taking a fresher look at this than I am, and that's your fantastic opportunity."
Gates predicted AI's potential years ago
Gates saw the AI revolution coming nearly a decade ago: When asked which industry he'd focus on if he had to start over from scratch, he quickly chose AI.
"The work in artificial intelligence today is at a really profound level," Gates said at a 2017 event at Columbia University alongside Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. He pointed to the "profound milestone" of Google's DeepMind AI lab creating a computer program that could defeat humans at the board game Go.
At the time, the technology was years away from ChatGPT-style generative text, powered by large language models. Yet by 2023, even Gates was surprised by the speed of AI's development. He'd challenged OpenAI to create a model that could get a top score on a high school AP Biology exam, expecting the task to take two or three years, he wrote in his blog post.
"They finished it in just a few months," wrote Gates. He called the achievement "the most important advance in technology since the graphical user interface [in 1980]."