From the fashion runways to a Jewish artificial intelligence project:
Model Lior Cole appears on runways in the most coveted shows, but at the same time she also cultivates a particularly surprising career, in the field of planning and the Jewish world.
The American voice (21), daughter of a mother of Israeli descent and an American father, is not only a successful and sought-after model, but also a computer science student at the prestigious Cornell University, who is in love with the world of programming and especially with artificial intelligence.
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Cole's life changed about two years ago when she was spending time with her friend in Washington Square in New York, just as a fashion production was being filmed there.
The designer was impressed by Cole's data, which is endowed with a unique beauty and rises to a height of 1.83 cm, linked her to officials at the IMG modeling agency and from there the road to the runways at fashion weeks and the covers of leading magazines was paved.
Concurrent with her soaring fashion career, Cole began studying for a degree in computer science from Cornell University.
As part of a study project, Cole, who is very interested in the world of artificial intelligence, chose to program a bot called "Robo Rabbi" - a robot based on artificial intelligence that reads and interprets the Torah portion of the week, then creates a challenge aimed at strengthening and deepening understanding of Judaism.
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In an interview with the Times Of Israel website, Kol said that "Robo Rabbi" began as a side project ahead of Rosh Hashanah, just at the time when she was exposed to technologies from the world of artificial intelligence.
She released the initial model as a pilot during Ten Days of Repentance, with the final model released in February this year.
"Robo Rabbi" gained international exposure, when the British BBC initiated a video called "God and robots: Will AI transform religion?", In which the network correspondent interviewed Cole while presenting the software to Rabbi Moshe Levine in the Great Synagogue in Paris while on the pilgrimage. Fashion Week.
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Cole said in an interview with the site that most of it is just the opening shot in a chain of future projects she is planning, all with added social value and added designed to bring about change in the world.
Cole has taken a year off from school to understand how she can successfully combine the two loves of her life, fashion and programming, and in the meantime has managed to write a book for children that explains to them how the world of artificial intelligence works.
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