¿The Golem in CCCB?

The “AI: Artificial Intelligence” Exhibition was inaugurated at the CCCB on Tuesday the 17th with many areas that develop topics on automata, symbolic models, neural networks and machine learning.

It has interactive spaces, video presentations, representative objects and much more in a high-level exhibition, as is usually the case in this cultural center.

The journey through the history of AI includes a surprising reference, The Golem. It points to the Maharal of Prague from the 16th century, who would have created the Golem to defend the Prague ghetto from anti-Semitic attacks. The Golem, an ancestor of today's AI, would also have been created by several rabbis in the Middle Ages and to this day appears in comics, stories, movies, etc.

The similarity of this figure from Jewish folklore to the AI ​​of the 21st century is very surprising. If he is ordered to carry out a task, he will carry it out systematically, and execute the instructions literally, without question.

The exhibition will be open to the public until March 17, 2024.

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Thanks to Dani Simonsohn for the preview