[ExI] AI is already writing religious sermons

[spike at rainier66.com]

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Subject: [ExI] AI is already writing religious sermons

ChatGPT can write sermons. Religious leaders don’t know how to feel about it
By AJ Willingham, CNN    Updated Tue April 11, 2023

<https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/11/us/chatgpt-sermons-religion-ai-technology-cec/index.html>

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The future of artificial intelligence promises technology with a human touch. But is it human enough to deliver a convincing spiritual message?

Pastors and rabbis have recently discovered that ChatGPT, an AI language learning model that can spit out passable prose with just a few prompts, is not that bad at creating sermons – a cornerstone of worship services across many religions.
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And it is causing a lot of discussion and heart-searching among religious leaders.

BillK

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BillK if I trained a GPT on the material in the fishbowl and only that material, I bet the resulting pastor-bot would write better classical sermons than its GPT counterpart or its human counterparts.  Notice I had to qualify what type or sermons it would do better at: classical.  

But two points: ChatGPT would be trained on more modern material and know more about current reality.  A pastor-bot trained with just the material found in the fish bowl (from the college where I studied) would not know about itself.  It would write classical sermons without realizing it wrote them.  If it used just that fishbowl material, it would know little if anything about computers and software.  It would just write good classical sermons, straight from the h... straight from the chip.

spike