Can Artificial Intelligence Make the Jewish Canon Accessible?

In the past century, there has been a tremendous effort to render Jewish religious works, not just the Bible and prayerbook, into English. Despite the impressive output of academic scholars and religious presses, many remain untranslated. Joshua Broyde reports on his attempt to use publicly available AI chatbots to translate a classic summation of rabbinic jurisprudence, first published between 1884 and 1893. (Its name is a play on that of a 16th-century legal code, the Shulhan Arukh, or “Set Table,” on which it is based.)