Season 2 · Episode 149
Take One: Shabbat 149 and 150
In today's Daf Yomi pages, can machines make great art?
August 3, 202010m 41s
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Show Notes
Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Shabbat 149 and 150, find the rabbis raising one of the humanity's most ancient and most difficult questions: What, exactly, is art? Ben Kovalis, co-founder of a company that uses artificial intelligence to create original works of art, joins us to talk about what it takes to train a computer to generate something that previously took a human artist. What would Rashi say about machines learning to emulate our greatest masterworks? Listen and find out.