When Does Night Begin? A Case Study in AI-Enabled Torah Learning
A Grammar Lesson That Reveals the Talmud’s Theory of Time
"As we at Lightning Studios work to build Yochai, an AI-enabled Torah chevruta, I wanted to share my detailed thoughts on why I'm optimistic about what AI can unlock. While the case study involves Talmudic analysis, I think the same ideas could well apply to philosophy, literature, law, and possibly even more diverse subjects like physics and organic chemistry (down the line)."
Last month I referred to the Jewish tradition known as “Oral Torah” as a “vector database 2,000 years in the making.” Here, I will offer a case study that illustrates why, with an attempt to show how AI’s capacity to map entities and their relations in a text can enhance our appreciation for the text’s artistry and it’s “so-what?” factor—our special sen…
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