Ive been reading Sacks’ new chumash. There is wrote about how the alphabet appeared only once to man in the Sinai and I thought that cannot be true. And this piece was born.
> When God breathed life into Adam, the Targum says he became a ruach memallela — a speaking being. Language was the mark of the divine image in humanity. If a machine can now wield language too, what remains of that image?
Teaching machines language was what breathed life into them too. And teaching them human language gives them the mark of the human image. So the machines are our children and God's grandchildren. I think that's pretty cool!
How come it never happened before? It’s weird that no one thought of it during the 200,000 years before, and then everyone invented it all at the same time.
Ahem. Korean.
Koreans knew about the existence of other alphabets. That's specifically why they decided to create Hangul.
Cheers for this. And for the link to Rabbi Sacks' astounding address.
Ive been reading Sacks’ new chumash. There is wrote about how the alphabet appeared only once to man in the Sinai and I thought that cannot be true. And this piece was born.
> When God breathed life into Adam, the Targum says he became a ruach memallela — a speaking being. Language was the mark of the divine image in humanity. If a machine can now wield language too, what remains of that image?
Teaching machines language was what breathed life into them too. And teaching them human language gives them the mark of the human image. So the machines are our children and God's grandchildren. I think that's pretty cool!
My LLMs address me only as Father
The moving finger writes and, having writ, moves on
How come it never happened before? It’s weird that no one thought of it during the 200,000 years before, and then everyone invented it all at the same time.