Almost 2,000 years before ChatGPT was invented, two men had a debate that can teach us a lot about AI’s future. Their names were Eliezer and Yoshua.  No, I’m not talking about Eliezer Yudkowsky, who recently published a bestselling book claiming that AI is going to kill everyone, or Yoshua Bengio, the “godfather of AI” and most cited living scientist in the world — though I did discuss the 2,000-year-old debate with both of them. I’m talking about Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Yoshua, two ancient sages from the first century.   According to a famous story in the Talmud, the central text o...

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