Chevre, this week’s Parsha is Behar-Behukotai (בהר-בחוקתי). We finish the book of Vayikra. This week we are very land focused. The Sabbatical, the Yovel, Redemption of the Land, and Levite Cities. We then we get into the rules of slavery. And then we have a section where it says you should follow my commandments and it has blessings and curses.

What strikes me today, after having spent the past hour talking to an AI to auto push and update my personal repos when I build out my lambda containers, is that this is very much how we interact with AI. The AI (maybe this is more ML) gets “benefits” when it does what we want and it gets “negatives” when it does not. This is how they are trained. This is also how you train a dog, praise and treats when it do the right things and a shout when it does not.

So if we do the right things, even the hard things, then we’ll have a good life in the land. If we do not do the right things, then we may get thrown out of it. I think the important distinction here, however, between AIs, dogs and people is that the person can think and evaluate. The dog can a bit and the AI cannot at all. So it’s important for the person on these circumstances to review and understand what is happening, what is being asked for and is the result what is expected.

As I write this, my scheduled job ran and I can see that the script I edited on builder machine A pushed and update and builder machine B received it. (1 is Intel and 1 is Graviton). So I can now conclude that the AI gave me some options to make my system better, but I still needed to verify.

For the words from the Torah, we do not need to verify, we trust in HaShem.

Shabbat Shalom.