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Originally Posted by elyn02
Good point about people being able to apply technology to their particular problem. I wonder if AI could ever pick up on that kind of behavior.
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It's an over-simplification but at a very basic level all these chat-bots do is to guess the next word in a sentence over and over -- but a smart guess within the constraints of coherent language, and based on their access to a large amount of existing text, usually from the internet, and perfect memory compared to humans. If the prompt is detailed enough and the model good enough, they can write in the style of some famous author you might choose, if so prompted. They can write within a set of constraints like a moral system or a particular theology. They don't "pick up on" things so much as they are given a set of things to work within. So someone requesting a sermon would have to use a fairly complex and layered prompt that would (hopefully) constrain it to the desired creed / theology for that audience. If you were using a bot to create a whole liturgy, then you'd have the easiest time of it, I'd think, with the published liturgies of (generally "high church") denominations as sample input. I don't think it would work nearly as well to produce, say, something palatable for a suburban evangelical congregation or an exuberant pentecostal group. Those would tend to go off the rails or descend into cliche, I'd imagine.
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