The mind virus will not stop spreading, making corporations do your critical thinking is not a good path. People will become dependent on a subscription service for everyday life.
Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies
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#42Re: Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies
#43Btw pope is a math phd.
Imagine the pope being a man of science a couple of hundred years back... How much better the world could be.
You mean during the Napoleonic wars? Science was already fully embraced by then. Or do you think the Austrians and the French were casting spells against each other instead of firing cannon?
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They could even finally be a source for good if they’d actually use some of the billions they collect. Has anyone actually directly encountered a single vatican sponsored charity or program in the wild? It seems quite a morally bankrupt organisation to me, and i’m not sure what if anything it really has to do with Christianity or Christians anyore.
Ah yes, these priests killed and tortured around the world just to burn charity money.
Re: Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies
#45Btw pope is a math phd.
The Vatican has really smart people in there, regardless of how you feel about the whole thing. I recommend anyone interested in the topic to give a read to: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docu...
"ANTIQUA ET NOVA
Note on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence"
I was quite impressed at how much they "get it".
Re: Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies
#46Re: Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
They could even finally be a source for good if they’d actually use some of the billions they collect. Has anyone actually directly encountered a single vatican sponsored charity or program in the wild? It seems quite a morally bankrupt organisation to me, and i’m not sure what if anything it really has to do with Christianity or Christians anyore.
From the Wikipedia page on the Catholic Church: "By means of Catholic charities and beyond, the Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of education and health care in the world." Just yesterday I went to see a presentation of a priest appointed to a massive parish in the rural area of South Sudan, setting up schools and bringing in aid.
> the Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of education and health care in the world.
Hm. In germany Catholic day care is funded by the state ie taxes by over 90%. Military chaplains 100%. Would be surprised if the difference is bigger in schools and hospitals. I heard that in France there is an actual separation of church and state and as a result the church is rather poor.
Re: Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies
#48No priest will feed sufficient context about their community into the context window - even if they were skilled enough to do so, unless the model was locally hosted, doing so would be a violation of their vows of silence.
Good homilies are written with the particular community in mind. If it were more effective to write a homily for a generic public, the Vatican would have started publishing standard homilies long ago.
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I think you are grossly missing the point. That AI can do it better - by what dimension? - than the priests is arguable, but the reason for a priest to write one is reflection, connection.. Have you ever considered that possibly performing something is not only a mean to some output but that the process is the thing? That may or may not translate to your coding analogy, but for the article comment you pose, I think y…
I have been present for a sermon that smelled like chatgpt. It does make you wish you had sent your agent instead.
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I agree. I personally listen to Sam Altman on these types of matters. He's someone with much more extensive qualifications than the pope!
Edit: it looks like I was wrong about this and Sam Altman has no formal qualifications. I still think he has probably picked up a lot of life experience over the years.