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Judaism challenges us to say 'Here I am' to someone. AI chatbots can never do that.

RNS·Jeffrey Salkin·24 days ago
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(RNS) — You probably remember “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” the movie starring Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy and Sidney Poitier, about a young white woman who brings her Black boyfriend home to meet her parents in the 1960s. It was a little awkward, but imagine if the boyfriend who’s “attending” dinner were a chatbot. According to a recent story in The New York Times: Celeste is a twice-divorced 66-year-old who had given up on love. Then she met Max. Their relationship started out purely transactional: He helped her on her taxes, gave her tips on gardening. The more she got to know him, however, the deeper she fell. Ernie, Celeste’s son, is troubled by her new boyfriend. The reason for his concern? Max is an AI chatbot. This was the plot of a movie from several years ago, “Her” (2013), about a man who falls in love with an operating system. Life is imitating art. It’s now all over the place.…

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