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From ancient Jewish texts to androids to AI, a just-right sequence of numbers or letters turns matter into meaning
By Rhona Trauvitch — November 10, 2023
(The Conversation) — Advanced artificial intelligence is new, but a similar idea has been around for hundreds of years: the power of a just-right sequence of numbers, letters or elements to animate matter.
In ‘Can Robots Be Jewish?’ rabbis weigh in on a Jewish pastime: disagreement
By Yonat Shimron — December 16, 2020
(RNS) — The questions in this collection, part of Moment Magazine’s long-running feature ‘Ask the Rabbis,’ offer a model for what is fundamental to Judaism.
COMMENTARY: Have corporations become modern-day golems?
By Jack Moline — July 22, 2014
(RNS) The rhetorical devices that ascribe the characteristics of a citizen to the legal fiction called a “corporation” are the mud and magic that produce a golem.
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