Chatbots have dominated the artificial intelligence discussion of late, and it’s not hard to see their appeal. Humans perceive humans, and chatbots don’t look or wire human, but there is something about the human understanding of language that captures our attention and encourages us to imagine all the possibilities of artificial intelligence. There is a
Indeed, it turns out that the possibilities are endless, and large language models are just the tip of the iceberg in the world of AI. In fact, AI has myriad uses, from medicine to law to Judaism. Artificial Intelligence Ban on Sukhber Hasidic Movement This is just one extreme example of the conversation about technology and its ever-growing use in the Jewish community. It seems that the more we try to resist AI, the more applications will emerge. So when you’ve exhausted all your existential questions about ChatGPT, look into Jewish AI applications, including but not limited to chatbots.
Facial recognition will allow Internet users to compare thousands of photographs stored in Holocaust archives.
number to name uses AI to identify faces in Holocaust photo and video archives, including the collections of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem. Users upload photos of their loved ones and the software compares them across a collection of nearly 500,000 photographs of Jews taken before, during and after the Holocaust.
The algorithm then provides the user with a set of 10 faces from that collection that most closely resemble the face in the uploaded photo. The user can click each potential match to see more information.
The matching photos range from interwar European family portraits to postwar photographs of Jews in refugee camps. Each suggested match also contains additional context about the photo, often including dates, names, locations, and even personal information about the subject of the photo. This technology may be most useful to those whose Holocaust photographs include unidentified subjects, who may be able to find additional context by uploading their photographs to this site.
Holocaust survivors can visualize their memories of the genocide through image generation software.
Israeli organization Chasday Naomi While it supports Holocaust survivors primarily by providing food and clothing to those in need, it also works with Holocaust survivors to generate images that visually represent the memories of surviving the genocide. starting.
As of January, 19 Israeli participants According to Reuters, they participated in the project and contributed to an exhibition made from their work. Participants sit next to an AI software operator and talk about their memories while the operator inputs keywords into the AI program “Midjourney” that generates images based on text. Survivors then select the image that best evokes their memory. For example, one of the participants, Raissa Gurevich, was born in Belarus in 1941. Twenty-one of her relatives (including her three sisters and brother) were killed in the Holocaust. She remembers having a bloody pink coat her brother wore, which she retrieved after her brother was killed. The program then created four images of her with a toddler in a pink coat, from which Gurevich selected the closest match.
The app may determine if fabrics are permitted or prohibited by law.
In 2021, three Jewish high school students will Thread Check Co., Ltd. It aims to use AI and machine learning to identify fabrics that may be made of both wool and linen. This type of fabric is chatonesis prohibited by law (Deuteronomy 22:11). The student’s website says an AI-based app can identify his single strand of any of these fabrics with a 100% confidence level. By comparing new inputs to trained images, the model determines how to classify that data and adds new images to the database for future reference.
It is unknown if this app is publicly available, but this group innovation competition In 2021, the Jewish Education Initiative Center granted a provisional patent for this product.
If a chatbot goes to a yeshiva…
Rebbe.io He calls himself “the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence rabbi”. Unlike other generic chatbots that are trained on large amounts of information and give generic answers to user questions, Rebbe.io’s scope is more specific. When asked what texts it was trained on, the chatbot said, “The response was from the Torah, the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds, the Mishnah, the Midrash, commentaries containing the Rashi and Ramban, and other important Jewish texts. and the knowledge and understanding derived from it.” lesson. “
Rebbe.io builds on ChatGPT, but its response is different. For example, in response to the question ‘How do I follow Kashrut? bottom. ChatGPT also says, “It’s important to find an approach that fits your personal adherence and comfort level.” In response to the same question, Rebbe.io said to only eat kosher-certified food, prepare and eat food in kosher facilities, and seek the guidance of a rabbi. In response to another hypothetical question, “If you borrow someone’s car and the engine fails, and the person didn’t know there was trouble, but it turns out to have been a problem before, what is the Jewish law?” Who should pay for the repairs according to?” The show ruled the opposite.
However, the website states that “AI rabbis may give wrong answers.” Users are warned, “always refer to the Torah books and human rabbis to confirm any new insights learned here.”
Jewish disease may be treated with gene-editing methods.
Researchers at New York University Grossman School of Medicine and the University of Toronto AI program It aims to “turn genes on and off to treat disease.” The New York University website claims that such gene-editing techniques can correct genetic mistakes and eliminate errors that contribute to Tay-Sachs disease and other diseases. Found mainly among Jews Eastern European Tay-Sachs patients lack the enzymes that break down fat in the brain and spinal cord, which damages and destroys nerve cells.
AI could accelerate the first simple production of zinc fingers, customizable proteins that turn genes on and off. Because of the difficulty of designing these proteins to affect only one specific outcome and have predictable effects on the rest of the gene, the authors of this study suggested that AI could We propose that it may be useful for modeling effects.
Rabbinic literature has become more accessible with the help of machine learning-based assistants.
Even for native speakers of Hebrew, deciphering religious texts can be difficult, let alone analyzing them at a deep level. Professor of Computer Science at Bal-Ilan University, Dictatoran organization whose purpose is to “remove the tedium” involved in the study of Hebrew literature.
Dicta Maivin, an artificial intelligence technology, is a relatively new addition to the Dicta toolbox. The app will allow users to navigate rabbinic literature more easily and will change the way people work with Hebrew texts. With the help of Dicta Maivin, users can decipher unknown abbreviations, associate and add citations to sources. Nekdot (vowelized) into parts of text, and Rashi characters into more usable fonts. According to Dicta’s website, the Dicta library already contains a large number of Hebrew texts made accessible by Maivin, but users can upload selected texts to be displayed in a “real-time processed form”. ‘ option has also been added. .
The mental health crisis of music reaches our ears through AI-generated music in the style of a dead legend.
Popular 2021 project created by Over the Bridge, a nonprofit dedicated to raising mental health awareness in the music community 27 club lost tape “tried”[use] An AI made album lost to the mental health crisis in music. The project used artificial intelligence to generate songs based on the music and voices of musicians such as Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse who died at the age of 27 and suffered from mental health problems. .
Winehouse was an Ashkenazi-Jewish English singer-songwriter who wowed audiences with her emotional, multi-genre music and raw performances during her lifetime. She has also spoken openly about her bipolar disorder. Winehouse’s “Lost Tapes” track, “A Man I Know”was generated by Google’s Magenta AI, combined with a popular neural network to learn from her discography and use that knowledge to put together songs in her style. Audio Her engineers and technicians also contributed to this effort, polishing the AI-generated tracks and recruiting singers from her Tribute band to sing the lyrics written by her AI system.
The new app aims to use AI technology to generate personalized kosher treats and let Orthodox Jews experience how AI can serve them.
Developed by Abraham Bree in partnership with kosher dairy brand Norman’s, Cheesecake Wizard can generate up to 64,000 kosher cheesecake recipes based on the user’s basic crust, filling, and topping preferences. At the heart of the Cheesecake Wizard is prompt engineering. This is the process of creating specific prompts that tell the AI system what to write. “Someone goes to his CheesecakeWizard.AI and selects that they want a particular type of cheesecake, and the prompt his engineer reflects that selection,” he explains Bree. “This will communicate with his OpenAI on the backend and spit out the appropriate recipes.”
Cheesecake recipes can be sweet, savory, or both and can be modified to suit the user’s tastes. It can also be combined with an AI-generated image of the finished product. Recipes vary greatly in taste, but they are all kosher.
The site was born in part from Bree’s desire to challenge the views of his fellow Orthodox Jews on AI, as AI technology raises questions about the future of adherence in the Orthodox community. While many believe AI is at odds with Halacha, Bully is more optimistic. “I use technology to preserve tradition,” he says.
Photo credit: Image generated by AI’s DALL-E. You will be prompted to view the Jewish AI application. (Credit: Noah Phillips of DALL-E)
