[ExI] AI is already writing religious sermons

[BillK]

On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 at 13:50, spike jones via extropy-chat
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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.
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> 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.
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> spike
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That's exactly what happened to the Jewish rabbi in the article.
ChatGPT knows it is writing a sermon, so it only uses 'sermon'-type sources.
Quote:
“When a language model like ChatGPT is asked to create a Christian
sermon, it would typically rely on its training data and knowledge of
Christian theology and practice. This includes a broad range of
Christian texts, such as the Bible, commentaries, theological works,
and books of sermons by other preachers.”

“To create a Christian sermon, the language model would typically be
given a specific topic or theme to focus on,” it continued. “It would
then search through its vast database of knowledge to find relevant
information and examples related to that topic. This might involve
identifying relevant Bible passages, theological concepts, and
historical or cultural contexts that are related to the topic.”
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BillK